Bertrand Duperrin's Notepad

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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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Entries Tagged as 'enterprise-social-software'

What’s new at Lotus ? Coherence, openness and value

February 19th, 2010 · View Comments · IT, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing

I rencently had the chance to attend Lotusphere in order to gauge the feeling of what what happening at IBM/Lotus. I took some time to write this post because I was not sure of the point of view I had to take.
It was obvious that “I saw tools doing this and this” was not relevant. [...]

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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

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 [...]

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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.
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Social networks are the quintessence of enterprise web 2.0

February 27th, 2009 · View Comments · Information / knowledge management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing

The issue has been emerging for years but it’s now a hard trend : companies don’t consider internal use of web 2.0 as a prospective subject and started to work on its implementation. The network logic and the question of knowing how to implement it is now on CEO”s agendas. All the same, people in [...]

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How do good enterprise 2.0 idea perish

February 17th, 2009 · View Comments · Intranets & collaborative tools, enterprise 2.0, social computing

No comment. A good way to understand how old habits (sometimes) prevent good ideas to turn into successful projects.
enterprise 2.0, enterprise-social-software, idées, Innovation, intranet, management-des-idées, social-software

Tags: enterprise 2.0 , enterprise-social-software , ideas , ideas-management , Innovation , intranet , social-software

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Is there a 2.0 way to draw an org-chart ?

February 11th, 2009 · View Comments · Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0, project management

When talking about enterprise 2.0, something we offer hear is “sounds interesting but our company is not designed to work this way”. Understand : we decide to do something and we “push” it, don’t even think of allowing a bottom-up flow to exist in this context. Of course, that causes gaps, the company isn’t able [...]

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Is multitasking dangerous or a myth ?

January 23rd, 2009 · View Comments · Communication, Information / knowledge management, Organization & Management, social computing

Multitasking is a big issue for both people and organization. It’s the (presumed and made essential) ability for someone to do many things at the same time. The social media phenomenon and the increasing number of information flows people are exposed to are making this concern more and more central.
I’m afraid that, behing th multitasking [...]

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Can enterprises organize themselves as markets

January 17th, 2009 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Information / knowledge management, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0, knowledge-economy, social computing

What’s a market ? It’s a place when offer meets demand.
Companies love markets because it’s the more efficient way to find outlets for their products and identify suppliers. It’s a competitiveness factor because of the outlets it provides and the optimization of costs that competition makes possible.
The “social” web is a market somehow. Contents can [...]

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