When I talk about enterprise 2.0 with people, they often say things about blogs, wikis, social networks etc… When I say “prediction markets” they look at we with flabbergasted eyes. I find very surprising that while it’s always mentioned as being a part of the enterprise 2.0 field on many other countries, it’s never mentioned [...]
Entries Tagged as 'culture'
Why prediction markets have no success in France (and maybe elsewhere…)
March 19th, 2010 · View Comments · enterprise 2.0, social computing
Is enterprise 2.0 possible without positive thinking ?
March 16th, 2010 · View Comments · Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0
I’ll start with a statement that’s nothing new and won’t surprise anyone. We are all different, with our cultures, values, expectations, and even if things may look quite uniform at a local scale, the diversity of our world becomes obvious when we have to work in a globalized context.
In the same way, any idea, trend, [...]
Tags: adoption·change·change-management·culture·enterprise 2.0·positive thinking·rationalism·reason
New report on the state of enterprise 2.0
March 11th, 2010 · View Comments · enterprise 2.0
Cécile Demailly had the kindness to send me the report she made about the state of enterprise 2.0, a report than can be purchased here. It relies on the responses of people from 50 large organizations, often international, and the fact 48% respondants are french gives a very interesting picture of the double context (local [...]
Tags: adoption·change·culture·enterprise 2.0·sense
Networking and collaboration : is enterprise a land of trust or distrust ?
February 11th, 2010 · View Comments · Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0
I recently wrote that it what obvious to me that for many people some activities and behaviors had to remain in their private sphere and, that social networking and everything that comes with is not a part of what they naturally want to transpose in the workplace. I also temperated my words saying that, of [...]
Tags: adoption·change·change-management·collaboration·culture·e-reputation·enterprise 2.0·france·personal branding·Social Networking·trust
Enterprise 2.0, collaboration and personal constraints
February 2nd, 2010 · View Comments · Communities, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0
Like it or not, the smallest unit of work is the individual task. People’s workday is made of achieving tasks, and even in the context of group or collaborative work. A group only delivers the sum of the tasks achieved by its members. That’s why coordination matters. We can even say that, how ironic, knowledge [...]
Tags: adoption·collaboration·culture·engagement·enterprise 2.0·groups·groupware·on the flow·participation·social networks·social routine
Are in-the-flow activities a cure against cultural barriers ?
January 7th, 2010 · View Comments · Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing
The importance of culture on the success of enterprise 2.0 projects is now acknoledged by everybody. The issue was widely discussed at the last Enterprise 2.0 Summit in Franfort where I took part in a panel about it. Even apart from this specific session, culture was the hot topic in many discussions during the breaks [...]
Tags: adoption·corporate culture·culture·deployment·enterprise 2.0·flow·in the flow·over the flow
Enterprise 2.0 by A. McAfee : my review
December 31st, 2009 · View Comments · enterprise 2.0
The long awaited “Enterprise 2.0” by Andrew McAfee was issued a few weeks ago. There were lots of expectations towards the book of the father of enterprise 2.0 which issuing was delayed earlier this year. Now that the book is available, it’s time to answer the traditional questions : does it meet people’s expectations, what [...]
Tags: adoption·case studies·culture·enterprise 2.0·management·McAfee
Enterprise 2.0 adoption : you need both a voice and a screwdriver
December 24th, 2009 · View Comments · Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0
This is a sequel of my previous post related to enterprise 2.0 adoption, enriched by the many discussions and comments that followed. Here’s a synthesis of what emerged from that.
• There must be someone on the driver seat
As Oscar Berg pointed out, there must be someone in the driver’s seat. Seen from this angle, of [...]
Tags: adoption·alignment·change·change-management·culture·enterprise 2.0·evang·organization·sense
Enterprise 2.0 case studies says “it’s possible”…and nothing more
November 6th, 2009 · View Comments · IT, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0
As usual, when a hange that’s both organizational and technological happens, everyone is looking for case studies to be convinced. But as the first solid cases come about social media, it looks like doubt remains, that cases are not close enough to people’s concerns to convince them. How many times can we hear “they don’t [...]
Tags: adoption·case studies·culture·enterprise 2.0·implementation·social media·social-software
Which future for middle managers ?
October 1st, 2009 · View Comments · Human resources, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0, social computing
Among the subjects that are classified “sensitive” by many companies, middle management is not one of the least. It’s easy to understand that the latter will be widely impacted by the emergence of networked ,”unintermediarized” organizations, what brings legitimate fears. Companies fear the consequences of mid-managers fears and reaction and want to preserve the internal [...]
Tags: change·culture·enterprise 2.0·Human resources·management·middle-management·social media·social-software
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