May
21
Category: Collaborative practices, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0, knowledge-economy
Basically that would make sense. In an industrial economy everything is product-centric : we know what it is, what it’s made of, of which pieces it’s composed, there’s one and only one to produce and assemble them, and everyone knows exactly what he has to do. It’s a system based on infinite repetition of totally [...]
March
21
Category: HR & Management 2.0, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0
That’s a key point in enterprise 2.0 discussion : build a base called trust, which has effects on transparency, loosen grip and the command and control world that’s ours. Hence the announced end of “command and control”.
Why the end of command and control ? Regarding “command”, can you imagine an organization where nobody commands ? [...]
March
10
Category: Communities, HR & Management 2.0, Ideas & innovation management, Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing
Everyone is conscious of informals networks’ power within an organization. But their informal nature causes of lot of (sometimes) legitimate fears because seen uncontrolable. We never know what they will bring. The concept of serendipity is perfect to illustrate this. We all dream of driving a Ferrari, provided we can control accelerator, wheel and brakes. [...]