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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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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 [...]

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So you love your customers…and you let others take care of them

November 23rd, 2009 · View Comments · Communities

Saying that customers are businesses’ most important assets is now a common view. First because their money make the business live, second because they are its best ambassadors when they’re happy with the delivered service.
Of course, an happy customer is a customer who’s delivered a service that meets his expectations. He also gives value to [...]

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People Centric Organizations ? Not that sure…

September 24th, 2009 · View Comments · Human resources, Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing

One of the most common thing we can hear about enterprise 2.0 is that “it’s about people”. Even if it delivers a meaningful meassage, it brings more questions than it solves, leaving enterprises into doubt, if not in fear. I’m not even sure that everybody agree on what it means at the end. “It’s about [...]

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HR 2.0 as an ongoing process

May 28th, 2009 · View Comments · HR & Management 2.0, Human resources, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, recruitment, social computing

This post is the continuation of the one I wrote on the central role HR have to be given in the change process businesses need to undertake to grow in the current economy.
Most often, identifying a need implies that a project has to be undertaken. A project is made of a number of known and [...]

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Enterprise social networks are not fun if not used to work

March 24th, 2009 · View Comments · Human resources, enterprise 2.0, social computing

A few feeks ago I was interviewed about enterprise social networks, especially abou the new dynamics they bring within organizations. The point was the “festive” feeling they can bring in people’s day to day jobs. The article the journalist started from was this note from British Telecom : “Social Networking : Time to ‘Party On’“.
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Wasting time is not a matter of tools

October 2nd, 2008 · View Comments · Human resources, Organization & Management, Social Networking, social computing

On of the main issues about social software introduction within companies is that it would make people waste time. In order to answer this question, we have to understand the underlying concerns.
Because the suggested way of working doesn’t need many discussions : in the current context, people are more efficient in a network rather than [...]

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Satisfaction Vs. Engagement

January 12th, 2007 · View Comments · Organization & Management

I learned from an IPSOS study that’s focusing on employee’s satisfaction is unuseful, and that we’d better focus on their engagement instead. I won’t comment the whole document since you can find a good analysis here, but let me tell you a few conclusions I made.
I see some main topics :
- top-down culture is dead [...]

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