Bertrand Duperrin's Notepad

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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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How to understand and position enteprise 2.0 in the real enterprise

December 1st, 2009 · View Comments · Communication, Communities, HR & Management 2.0, Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing

It’s time to sum up all the thoughts I had these last months. I tried to start from both the concerns expressed by C level managers asking for a global vision and ground managers who needed a “hands on” vision because they don’t have time to waste to try to understand such nebulous things. Having [...]

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Lessons from a crisis and the behavioral economics

August 26th, 2009 · View Comments · HR & Management 2.0, Organization & Management, economy, enterprise 2.0

A year ago, the world entered a crisis that didn’t let it unhurt. A crisis I won’t call economic or or financial since I think the disease was deeper. Anyway, many people understand that, this time, we’ll have to be more creative than in a past and not rebuild things as they were. But [...]

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Social CRM needs more than a CRM approach

August 24th, 2009 · View Comments · Organization & Management

Ross Mayfield recently published a fundamental post about “social CRM“. The statement of fact is simple : 1% of customer’s conversations improve the organizational knowledge, 9% touch the organization without changing anything and 90% are not heard at all, businesses miss an impressive source of possible improvemens. I’m not meaning 100% of these conversations are [...]

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Will you have to throw your marketing outside of the window ?

August 17th, 2009 · View Comments · Communication, Ideas & innovation management, Social Networking, social computing

McKinsey recently issued a report entitled Managing beyond web 2.0 which is about constraints businesses are meeting in a connected world. Those who relied on the title to pounce on it may have been very disappointed since it’s more about the realtionships between businesses and their ecosystems than about internal management issues. But that’s not [...]

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With I-Prize Cisco Hammer It into Crowdsourcing for Innovation

July 5th, 2008 · View Comments · Ideas & innovation management

A little time ago I wrote about Cisco’s Human Network. One of the point I raised was to know is Cisco was about to only play a facilitator’s game or try to exploit its network’s fruits when relevant. The answer was obvious,  but now it gets materialized and is called  I-Prize.
It’s nothing less that a [...]

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Giving problem solving a framework

June 12th, 2008 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Information / knowledge management, knowledge-economy, social computing

Since today collaboration means solving problems together, it’s important companies provide their employees with a problem solving framework.
Why not a methodology or a process ?
In fact both are needed but the most important lack is about the framework.
There are high level issues where problem solving needs a strong methodology, a dedicated taskforce (that’s what I [...]

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