Bertrand Duperrin's Notepad

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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What perimeter for and enterprise social network

February 23rd, 2009 · View Comments · Intranets & collaborative tools, enterprise 2.0, social computing

Maybe you remember of my posts about external networks and the relevance of enterprise 2.0 logics for SMBs. In both case the underlying issue whas about the perimeter of those networks.
As a matter if fact, in small of medium businesses, assuming that contacts are more simple (or are supposed to be…), the benefits of interconnecting [...]

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Survey on the use of IT in french companies

February 20th, 2009 · View Comments · Human resources, IT, Intranets & collaborative tools, social computing

Two weeks ago I was invited by Microsoft to attend the presentation of a survey on the use of IT in fench companies. Two things made it really interesting
• Although the fact new generations were transforming the use of IT, there was no global study to quantify and qualify it.
• The methodology was neutral and [...]

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Managing in a downturn

December 22nd, 2008 · View Comments · Communication, Ideas & innovation management, Organization & Management

The Alumni Network of the famous french “Ecole Polytechnique” issued a report on “how to manage in a downturn’. Here are a few excerpts :
• Urgency does not mean lack of vigilance : state of urgency makes people focus on short term which bad effects are know…on long term. Moreover, enterprise compartmentalization and a hard [...]

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Switching from work to partnership

March 14th, 2008 · View Comments · Human resources, Recommended Bookmarks, enterprise 2.0

Many people try to guess how enterprises will look like in the future. I’m afraid no one can answer thins question. In the other hand there are trends we can’t ignore : in the same way baby boomers dramatically transformed the companies they joined, digital natives will dot the same with our companies.
But prudence is [...]

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