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" 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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Meeting Rex Lee : collaboration, problem solving and innovation on the programme

June 2nd, 2008 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Ideas & innovation management, Intranets & collaborative tools, social computing

I took advantage from my trip to attend Webcom Montreal to make a flying visit to Toronto. The main purpose was family but it was also the occasion to meet Rex Lee in person at his Toronto’s office. For those who don’t know him, he’s collaboration director at Bell Canada and, although less mediatized [...]

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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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Reinventing management according to McKinsey

December 23rd, 2007 · View Comments · HR & Management 2.0, Ideas & innovation management, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0

After having published some studies about the “soft ROI” of organizational performance and informal networks, McKinsey brought out something very interesting about the need of reinventing management.
Before going into the document, a few things about all those relevant analysis from McKinsey :
- McKinsey treats a lot of problematics in direct relationship with enterprise 2.0…without mentioning [...]

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Discussions about innovation must be public

November 22nd, 2006 · View Comments · Ideas & innovation management

We all have ideas…and wha do we do with ? We propose…but at one and only condition : manager must be informed but my colleagues must not know what I’ml thinking about and what I suggest.
Said differently: does making propositions public favor innovation ?
At first sight we may think it’s harmful. Because, to be able [...]

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