I’ve always had an ambiguous feeling about productivity. In the one hand, doing more or faster with the same amount of resources is a significant improvement. In the other hand, with hindsight, we have to admit that productivity continuously increased these last decades, that whenever a hard time everything is done to increase it even [...]
Entries Tagged as 'economy'
Your knowledge helps you more than your productivity
September 9th, 2009 · View Comments · Information / knowledge management, economy, knowledge-economy, social computing, strategy
Tags: collaboration·economy·ecosystem·Innovation·knowledge·knowledge-economy·learning·problem solving·productivity·ROA·social media·social-software
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 [...]
Tags: behavioral economics·collaboration·crowdsourcing·customer relationship·customers·economy·irrationality·marketing·rationality·socialization·value chain
Too big to last ?
August 5th, 2009 · View Comments · Organization & Management, economy
Is the myth of the “critical size” close to its end ? The concept of enterprise always comes with the concept of “growth”. Growth of the turnover, but also growth of its size. Today’s big companies count tens or hundreds thousand employees. But, at a time when performance is not only about the net force [...]
Tags: coase·economy·ecosystem·medef·partnership·purchasing depts·SMB·value chain
Investment or consumption : sounds like “déjà vu”
February 19th, 2009 · View Comments · Organization & Management, economy
In many countries there is an intense debate to know if governments should stimulate economy by boosting investment or consumption.
It’s about two clearly different approaches : in one case you try to limit the effects of the crisis and their impact on household (and so on enterprises as a side effect), in the other you [...]
Tags: consumption·crisis·downturn·economy·investment·long term·short term·stimulation
Boards in the mist
February 11th, 2009 · View Comments · economy, strategy
Boards have to be mobilized in order to make the right decisions to survive the crisis. Nothing new. But according to this essay from McKinsey, it’s far from being that simple.
Three reasons are put forward
• Boards follow unchanging procedures and ritualss. Defines shedules on a yearly basis, documents and agendas fixed many weekds ago.
It may [...]
Tags: boards·crisis·downturn·economy·half strategy·interactions·strategy
Logic without good sense leads to catastroph
October 26th, 2008 · View Comments · Human resources, Organization & Management
Two weeks ago I attended a graduation ceremony. In such events I often find speeches boring, but this time I was really interested to ear the message that would be delivered to youn managers/entrepreneurs who will need to find their way in the business world in a time of crisis.
Finally I liked the way things [...]
Tags: crisis·economy·entrepreneurship·finance·Human resources·logic·management·networks·organization·people-centric·performance
Economy changes…companies have to change too
December 13th, 2006 · View Comments · HR & Management 2.0, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0
A few days ago I wrote a note about a McKinsey report saying how success will depend on interactions for companies tomorrow. In the same tendency I have to mention the report on the immaterial economy recently published by the french minister of economy.
I think it’s a very important subject and I’m convinced enterprises will [...]
Tags: economy·enterprise 2.0·human-capital·knowledge-economy·knowledgeworkers
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