June
9
Category: Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0
The fact that more and more people agree on the fact that enterprise 2.0 is mainly about the way we do things takes us back to corporate culture issues.
It’s not something that’s easy to deal with. Since it’s been proved that culture is a key performance factor and that it’s important to recruit people who [...]
May
18
Category: HR & Management 2.0, Human ressources, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0
As I wrote earlier, for most of Webcom audience, Jon Husband’s Keynote was the most impressive (actually it seems he enjoyed it too)
Jon had the kindness to send me his slides so I can share some of them with you.
Tags: corporate culture , culture , enterprise 2.0 , hierarchy , Human ressources , human ressources [...]
April
27
Category: Human ressources, Ideas & innovation management, Information / knowledge management
I really believe conversations are key to capturing tacit knowledge, best practices, all those things that are parts of the individual’s patrimony and can only be captured an harnessed by stimulating individual memories through conversations, since they are the most accessible form of knowledge.
Hence the necessity to provide the organization with tools that make those [...]
April
16
Category: Human ressources, recruitment
Recruiting Digital Natives make companies ask lots of questions. Some of their concerns are not justfied, and we can also read many nonsenses.
“They have their habits, their own way to do things, with their own tools…we only have to adopt those tools to seduce them”. Wrong ! They don’t juge by appearances (or as we [...]
April
7
Category: Human ressources, recruitment
“Managing Complexity” or “Managing in complexity” is a very common word at this time. This only means people have to take into account more and more changing factors before making a decision. It may seem obvious but it’s still useful to remind some people of that as we can see too many managers acting as [...]
March
22
Category: Communication, Communities, Ideas & innovation management
No company can (sur)vive isolating itself from the outside. In the other hand it has to grow richer because of all its ecosystem and consider it as an allied, not an enemy. There are many reasons for that.
- improve the way it benchmarks by taking the most of ideas and feedbacks coming from what’s essentiel [...]
March
21
Category: Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing
For those who are looking for examples, evidences that show “it’s possible” and “it’s make for creating value” and “it’s not only about IT companies”, I suggest to have a look at what’s going on at P&G.
They’ve been using blogs and wikis for seven years to create and share information. In january they decided to [...]
March
17
Category: Human ressources, Ideas & innovation management, Organization & Management, strategy
A few weeks ago I read a note on Internet Actu [fr] , about Google’s innovation model, where many expert gave their opinion on whether it was a model to follow or an exception. My point here is not to discuss Google’s model but to wonder what the very existence of this kind of [...]
February
2
Category: Human ressources, IT, Organization & Management
Since the news of the MS offer for Yahoo, I felt a lot of enthusiasm around me. People were talking of technology, of tools, of stocks and bottom line (of course…). It seems like “something wonderful” was happening.
I’m far from sharing this opinion.
Ok, according to numbers, to products, this may sound great. But what matters [...]