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" The most successful companies are those that think jointly technological change, work design and the changes in internal social relationships.” Antoine Riboud.
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Enterprise 2.0 is not only about communities

April 28th, 2009 · View Comments · Communities, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0

Since social media have been making its first steps inside enterprises and the context of enterprise 2.0 has been emerging, everybody has been talking about communities. As a matter of fact there’s no better tools to facilitate exchanges within communities, a very orld concept that was given a new youth by this “social revolution”. But [...]

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Are communities accidental ?

March 12th, 2008 · View Comments · Communities

Communties are central for everyone who want to improve his organization : because it’s a performance lever, because it’s an integration factor, because it improves the use of informal knowledge and networls. It’s far from being a fad : even top managers such as Louis Schweitzer assume it.
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Re-empowering middle management

November 8th, 2006 · View Comments · Organization & Management

Companies have been experiencing big troubles with their middle management for years. The reason is quite simple: they had to do with a middle management which was disconnected from the field.
They now seem to have learned from that, adopting a new kind of management. As says Auchan (french leading supermarket chain) HR director, “it’s time [...]

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