Many people are discussing all around the web (and even beyond) whether digital things must be free or not. On the one hand, there are those who think that everything that is not tangible and is fluidly exchanged through the net is free by nature, on the other end there are those who think that [...]
Entries Tagged as 'costs'
The myth of free and how it impacts employee’s participation
November 12th, 2009 · View Comments · Recommended Bookmarks
Tags: collaboration·costs·distribution key·free·participation
Is Saas the future of your corporate IT ?
September 25th, 2009 · View Comments · IT, social computing
This is one more question that haunts many people’s night. More serioulsy, if it doesn’t make people stay awakened all nights long, it creates debates and brings some confusion that doesn’t help businesses to move forward. As a matter of fact deploying any solution is not that easy when one still have many infrastructure related [...]
Tags: cloud computing·costs·hosting·IT·private cloud·saas·security·software
External social networks are not only for marketing purposes
January 21st, 2009 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Communication, Communities, Organization & Management, project management
Generally, when I talk about social networks for other people than employees, I’m answered “ah ? I thought you were not interested in all these marketing things”. This is the obvious proof that, for many people and many companies, when you aim at an external audiance it’s for communication and sale purpose, following a one [...]
Tags: agile mathods·business networks·clients·Communities·coordination·costs·customers·ideagoras·Innovation·marketing·organization·organization performance·production·productivity·project management·social networks·suppliers·value·value chain·value creation
Enterprises far beyond enterprise 2.0
January 20th, 2009 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Human resources, Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, strategy
A few weeks ago I amused myself proposing a few tracks on what enterprise 2.0 may be in 2009. But I think pushing the reflection beyond would be worth : enterprise 2.0 is only a side of a much complex reality that is enterprise and will be of any use only in a global framework. [...]
Tags: antoine-riboud·business networks·collaboration·costs·enterprise·enterprise 2.0·evaluation·Human resources·indicators·IT·management·mintzberg·networks·organization·performance·social networks·spendings·strategy·value·value creation
Can enterprises organize themselves as markets
January 17th, 2009 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Information / knowledge management, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0, knowledge-economy, social computing
What’s a market ? It’s a place when offer meets demand.
Companies love markets because it’s the more efficient way to find outlets for their products and identify suppliers. It’s a competitiveness factor because of the outlets it provides and the optimization of costs that competition makes possible.
The “social” web is a market somehow. Contents can [...]
Tags: coase·coordination·costs·enterprise-social-software·internet·management·market·marketplaces·organization·production·social-software·social-web·soo·transaction costs·web·web-2.0
When tools are on the cloud, companies have to make money rain
November 7th, 2008 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, HR & Management 2.0, Human resources, Organization & Management, Social Networking, social computing
Cloud computing is the new buzzword, at least untill the next one comes.It’s a reality we can’t ignore, even if it’s more about a question of place than about technology : it’s the place where things happen.
Let me explain. Consider someone who is able to work alone and must work this way. It’s the efficient [...]
Tags: allocaiton key·benefits·cloud computing·collaboration·costs·google·Innovation·management·objectives·problem solving·social computing·value
Do enterprises really outsource the right things ?
August 28th, 2008 · View Comments · Human resources, Information / knowledge management, Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management, knowledge-economy
Some of my reflections point to the slow but unavoidable outsourcing of the human side of the enterprise.
First because of organization models and systems that allow companies to focus on their core business : identifying key issues and needs, they can concentrate on elaboring a stragegy to respond…and let others do the rest. The rest, [...]
Tags: coase·costs·india·Innovation·knowledge-economy·knowledge-workers·KPO·outsourcing·saas·transaction costs
To understand enterprise 2.0 companies should learn from theory of constraints
August 21st, 2008 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing
It’s funny to see how history seems to be endlessly repeating, how issues that have been fixed years ago are coming back to the surface.
Because the question of productivity, time management, ROI in an enterprise 2.0 or in a Service Oriented Organization remembers me of something that already took place years ago (and was fixed) [...]
Tags: agile methods·costs·enterprise 2.0·goal·goldratt·knowledge-economy·management·optimization·organization·productivity·soo·theory of constraints·throughput·time management·toc
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