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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Businesses and People : performance according to Antoine Riboud

December 29th, 2008 · View Comments · Human resources, Organization & Management

A reflection that is not very far my usual discourse since it’s about optimization under resource constaintes. Most of all human resources.
Everybody know that a company’s goal is to make money in order to create value for its shareholders without whom it wouldn’t exist.
As time went by the need for making profit was turned into [...]

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What management has to learn from the Airbus vs. Boeing competition

August 8th, 2008 · View Comments · Communication, Information / knowledge management, Organization & Management, information, knowledge-economy

Remember, it was a long long time ago, that, in the times we are living, means something like ten years. At this time Airbus was wondering how to compete with Boeing on the big carriersmarket and was working on what would become the A380. On its side, Boeing was not thinking about replacing its mythic [...]

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