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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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Moving toward business models of a new kind : the example of “Danone Supporting Life”

May 7th, 2009 · View Comments · HR & Management 2.0, Human resources, society

One thing is sure : the “after the crisis world” will be very different from what it was before. It may seem obvious, but if we have a closer look at what happened in the past, we have to admit many upturns consisted of the rebuilding of what used to exist as it was. This [...]

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Businesses and People : performance according to Antoine Riboud

December 29th, 2008 · View Comments · Human resources, Organization & Management

A reflection that is not very far my usual discourse since it’s about optimization under resource constaintes. Most of all human resources.
Everybody know that a company’s goal is to make money in order to create value for its shareholders without whom it wouldn’t exist.
As time went by the need for making profit was turned into [...]

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Do You Know Social Business ?

December 16th, 2008 · View Comments · Human resources, Organization & Management, entrepreneurship, strategy

There was a lot of people at the “Theatre Marigny”, in Paris a few weeks ago. So many people that not everybody who wanted to attend managed to get a seat. It wasn’t the latest trendy show…or maybe yes. The first opus of a show that can be called “how to make business without breaking [...]

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Seen, read, heard this week #1

November 30th, 2008 · View Comments · Human resources, Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management, social computing

A new column that will be weekly…or not. Will last..or not. Sometimes I read, hear, see things that are not worth a post but that I feel like sharing like I would do at the cofee machine, around a drink or a lunch…
Heard during a conversation

• “Since they are not provided with the tools they [...]

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Danone explorers : In Real Life recruitment 2.0 for Y Gens

November 30th, 2008 · View Comments · Communication, HR & Management 2.0, Human resources, Social Networking, recruitment

A few weeks ago I was invited by Danone to attend their Danone Explorers event, a moment when the company and students who are looking for an internship can meet.
I already wrote many things about Danone on my French blog but nothing here. I think there are a few things you have to know before [...]

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Managing Complexity : Danone Tries to Spread its Values through a Business Game

April 7th, 2008 · View Comments · Human resources, 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 [...]

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Antoine Riboud was true

February 3rd, 2007 · View Comments · Human resources, Organization & Management

For those who don’t know him, Antoine Riboud was the former CEO of BSN now called Danone. This man always had a clear vision of the future of enterprises. A book has been published about all his texts, conferences, reports and I wanted to point a report he made on 1987 at the request of [...]

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