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The enterprise and the web

June 26th, 2009 · View Comments · IT, Intranets & collaborative tools, social computing

Finally, many current debates are about the enterprises’ ability to understand, master and harness the web, internally. This may seem trivial because purely technological and being about competences that are much lighter that those IT depts have been using for decades. But, at the end, it’s more complicated that it seems.
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Do we work the same way with providers and with colleagues ?

June 18th, 2009 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Organization & Management

The answer is obviously not. And not only because this is not the same kind of contracts. It’s because businesses still act according to the model that makes them consider their employees on one side and the others on the other side. And in the middle…they build walls. They proctect from the outside although value [...]

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I’m a bottleneck…but I try to improve

May 9th, 2009 · View Comments · Communication, Organization & Management

I wrote “I”…as I could I written “us”, “you”… a little story that’s, of course, imaginary. Any similarity whith any existing situation or people is accidental.
Finally, I did it well. Slowly, step by step, I climbed up the company’s hierarchy and took more and more responsabilities.
Today, I’m managing a large team. I’m responsible for my [...]

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3 web 2.0 tools enterprises must consider

March 6th, 2009 · View Comments · Social Networking, social computing

I often touch on the need for professionaling web 2.0’s tools and usages in order to make them consistent in a corporate context. But we also have to keep in mind that there are some tools and usages that exist on the general public web that businesses haven’t considered yet and that they should bring [...]

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Enterprises far beyond enterprise 2.0

January 20th, 2009 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Human resources, Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, strategy

A few weeks ago I amused myself proposing a few tracks on what enterprise 2.0 may be in 2009. But I think pushing the reflection beyond would be worth : enterprise 2.0 is only a side of a much complex reality that is enterprise and will be of any use only in a global framework. [...]

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Will 2.0 learn the enterprise ?

December 15th, 2008 · View Comments · IT, Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0, social computing

As I wrote in a previous post, all the required conditions are gathered for serious things to begin. Most of times, when a new phenomenon emerges, it goes through the following steps : ecstasy and disorganised intiatives even if brings no benefits, rejection because nothing good has been done at the previous step and then [...]

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What 2007′enterprise is. Introduction

February 14th, 2007 · View Comments · Organization & Management

Basically enterprise in 2007 is the same that it was in 1950. It’s a group of people and means united for a shared purpose. So nothing has changed since. It’s reassuring. There are still products, equipment, customers and competitors. Looking at things this way we can say nothing has changed since 1920. What brought success [...]

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