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Thoughts on management, HR, social networks…and enterprise 2.0

" 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 as a part of the Global Enterprise

May 12th, 2009 · View Comments · HR & Management 2.0, Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0

Many questioning about enterprise 2.0 these last weeks. How to make it work, how help companies to understand it, how to calculate the ROI ? So many questions that, at the end, can be summed up in only one : undestranding how these new logics can integrate into the existing and add to it. Without [...]

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Considering the gap between management 2.0 and enterprise 2.0

February 24th, 2009 · View Comments · HR & Management 2.0, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0

I’ve been neglecting the management 2.0 topic for a long time although it was what this blog was about since 2005. Last years I slowely slipped from management 2.0 to enterprise 2.0, even if I find it sad that there were so many people to discuss about of make companies use 2.0 tools than people [...]

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Can we identify good managers by the way their team uses the net ?

October 1st, 2008 · View Comments · Human resources, Information / knowledge management, Organization & Management, information, knowledge-economy

A very common discourse within companies is : “our people waste their time on social networks and, more globally, on the web. We have to restrict access to it”.
If, when talking about social networks, it depends on the way people use them, so its important to grant access to what useful for business, I find [...]

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Digital Nomads : today’s community for tomorrow’s workers

August 19th, 2008 · View Comments · Human resources, IT, Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management, social computing

Perhaps you’ve already heard about Digital Nomads. More than a site it’s rather a community for those who break the traditionnal link between working and being at the office and use the right tools to be connected and able to work anywhere, anytime. Alone but not isolated : digital nomads often interact more with their [...]

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Is creativity the only answer to complexity ?

May 21st, 2008 · View Comments · 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 [...]

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Trust doesn’t preclude control…but which control ?

March 21st, 2008 · View Comments · 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 ? [...]

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Serendipity doesn’t preclude control : a few rules to manage fate within informal networks

March 10th, 2008 · View Comments · 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. [...]

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