From repetition to differenciation

Companies find hard to adopt the “2.0″ attitude, just because it targets an unexploited field of the organization. Since novelty applies to an unexploited domain, why trying to understand it since we don’t use it. Saying that, the question is more about sensibilizing companies about exploring new performance and knowledge fields in order to face new challenges rather than adopting tools that don’t match current practices.

As I read in Social Media, it’s more important to explore new fields than evaluating it with our present certainties. Entreprise 2.0 discussion can be resumed this way : knowing how to take differenciation into account while we were only focused on repetition.

I say “take into account” because it’s not about replacement but about complementarity. And it applies to many fields.

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What 2007′enterprise is. Production is changing.

At first sight nothing has changed. Coca Cola still produces beverages, GM cars… So what makes me say production changed ?

If you have a closer look you’ll realize that enterprises are now producing information. And what about car manufacturers for example ? Exactly the same. Consider, for example, how much information was necessary to conceive and build the famous Fort T ? And the amount of information that the same goal, making a car, requires now. Compare the number of people whose job is producing information to those whose job is producing the final product in the 70s…the 80s…and now. Enterprises are information producers because the part of information contained in each final product, may it be a car, a shampoo, a computer, is increasing to an extent we can hardly realize.
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