If you read this blog it may be because the new approaches to collaboration and among them social networks interest you. You surely get their potential. You surely understand that deploying a tool, put passion and energy in your projet and pray is not the best way to make things work and achieve tangible results [...]
Entries Tagged as 'enterprise social networks'
Social Networking for Business : a collaboration engineering guide in the 2.0 era
February 18th, 2010 · View Comments · Communities, Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing
Tags: collaboration·Communities·enterprise 2.0·enterprise social networks·enterprise-social-software·rawn shah·social networks
Is workload measurement the problem of the century ?
January 14th, 2010 · View Comments · HR & Management 2.0, IT, Organization & Management, social computing
Optimizing workload has always been a key concern for businesses and managers. A too heavy workload regarding to the capacity leads to explosion, a too low workload means resources are wasted. I don’t even mention last minute assignments to face imponderables. In brief, bad adjustments have an heavy price.
In a manufacturing economy things are more [...]
Tags: email·enterprise social networks·human reources·indicators·information overload·management·marketplaces·productivity·quality·real time·social networks·workload
What future for enterprise social networks ?
December 18th, 2009 · View Comments · IT, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing
Social networks are often the key part of every “2.0″ internal projects ? Why ? Because when the purspose is not to find people or informations anymore but to link people through information and information through people, that’s the essential link between tacit and informal knowledge, those who have it and those who need it.
Social [...]
Tags: directories·enterprise 2.0·enterprise social networks·enterprise-social-software·profiles·social computing·social media·Social Networking·social networks·social sofwtare
Enterprise 2.0 is not only about communities
April 28th, 2009 · View Comments · Communities, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0
Since social media have been making its first steps inside enterprises and the context of enterprise 2.0 has been emerging, everybody has been talking about communities. As a matter of fact there’s no better tools to facilitate exchanges within communities, a very orld concept that was given a new youth by this “social revolution”. But [...]
Tags: business networks·Communities·communities-of-practices·enterprise 2.0·enterprise social networks·ROI·social networks
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’“.
Even [...]
Tags: engagement·enterprise 2.0·enterprise social networks·Human resources·management·motivation·social networks
What perimeter for and enterprise social network
February 23rd, 2009 · View Comments · Intranets & collaborative tools, enterprise 2.0, social computing
Maybe you remember of my posts about external networks and the relevance of enterprise 2.0 logics for SMBs. In both case the underlying issue whas about the perimeter of those networks.
As a matter if fact, in small of medium businesses, assuming that contacts are more simple (or are supposed to be…), the benefits of interconnecting [...]
Tags: clients·collaboration·cooperation·efficiency·enterprise social networks·interenterprise·organizational performance·partnership·projects·SMB·social networks
Social networks : are companies looking for the ROI or something else
January 29th, 2009 · View Comments · Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0
Whatever people may say, it’s still the hot issue of enterprise social networks. Considering ools that that are not processing tools strictly speaking, benefits have to be found on the new way of doing things they make possible rather than in the tools themselves that are only enablers. As I wrote here, benefits are not [...]
Tags: accenture·benefits·enterprise social networks·forrester·km·knowledge-management·measurement·ROI·social networks·strategy maps
2.0 ratings for employees : it’s not that simple
December 19th, 2008 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, HR & Management 2.0, Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing
Andrew Mc Afee wrote two interesing posts on the need for using 2.0 ratings for employees ( here and there).This kind of concern seems to be more and more actual for companies (I wrote about it there) and it confirms the accuracy of the old adage “tell me how you’re assessed, I’ll tell you how [...]
Tags: assessment·collaboration·enterprise 2.0·enterprise social networks·evaluation·Human resources·objectives·paradoxical injunction·remuneration·sales·social computing·social networks
New jobs description for Enterprise 2.0 ? Try the Enterprise 2.0 job profiler
December 3rd, 2008 · View Comments · Human resources, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0, recruitment, social computing, strategy
Every day I notice that many companies, conscious that their move toward Enterprise 2.0 -like dynamics is a major issue, are beginning to hire people for new kinds of jobs. It’s both about aligning people-centric activities with corporate purposes, identify new opportunities, energize cross-organiszaiton dynamics, favor new practices and new tools adoption, re-align tools on [...]
Tags: 2.0·Communities·community management·enterprise 2.0·enterprise social networks·Human resources·IT·job·job description·job profile·job profiler·recruitment·social networks·strategy·web-2.0
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