This topic was was my baseline at the beginning of this blog but I deserted it for a simple reason : I wrote a lot about how enterprises were supposed to work and, once done, holding on it endlessy was useless. The next step is to think about how to make it possible, by validating new practice’s relevance and think about implementing it in a pragmatic way.  Now tools are taking their place step by step within the enterprises, I’m sur 2008 will be the very beginning of change in management and organization. I insist on “the very beginning”. Don’t expect any tsunami : tools are slowly arriving and we’ll need time to have them adopted, and once the adoption will be effective, it will be obvious different management practices have to be set up (even if the wish of new practices precedes tool’s deployment).

A few weeks ago David Gurteen wrote about web 2.0 practices and management 2.0 on the same basis as  Gary Hamel in “The Future Of Management”. But he also asked this question : who will be the managers 2.0 ? Will they we updated managers 1.0 ? Do we have to wait for their retirement to give power to a next generation ?

Considering the speed things are going, I’m affraid that if we wait for the transfer of power between two generations, it will be too late. We’re not talking about 10 or 20 years but about dynamics that will start in the next months. And on a 10 years scale the risk of acculturation for new generations is real. And, as Hamel says, it will be too late. [Read more...]