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Thoughts on management, HR, social networks…and enterprise 2.0

" 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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Your indicators say that your online communities are very busy ? So what ?

October 20th, 2009 · View Comments · Communities, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0

When a social media project is launched, whether internal or external, it’s often structured in groups or communities. What every project manager fear is to end with empty or moribund communties, so making them busy is an obvious goal from which indicators are drawn. This is pure logic. These indicators are linked to the the [...]

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What do your social network and communities produce ?

October 6th, 2009 · View Comments · Communities, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing

I write “social network” or “community” to use the most generic term but my words are about all the so-called “2.0″ projects that may take place within companies. Companies have been knowing that in such projects communties, groups must have a purpose, a defined goal. Thank you for not smiling at such a statement of [...]

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Sometimes you need a community manager. Sometimes a manager is enough…

September 22nd, 2009 · View Comments · Communities, Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing

Among the the fundamental and trendy issues about enterprise 2.0, it’s impossible not to mention this one : what does making a community work and live takes ? According to many enterprises, that’s what make their “enterprise 2.0″ projects succeed or fail. As short and simple it is, this question brings two strategic issues about [...]

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Considering the gap between management 2.0 and enterprise 2.0

February 24th, 2009 · View Comments · HR & Management 2.0, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0

I’ve been neglecting the management 2.0 topic for a long time although it was what this blog was about since 2005. Last years I slowely slipped from management 2.0 to enterprise 2.0, even if I find it sad that there were so many people to discuss about of make companies use 2.0 tools than people [...]

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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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To understand enterprise 2.0 companies should learn from theory of constraints

August 21st, 2008 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing

It’s funny to see how history seems to be endlessly repeating, how issues that have been fixed years ago are coming back to the surface.
Because the question of productivity, time management, ROI in an enterprise 2.0 or in a Service Oriented Organization remembers me of something that already took place years ago (and was fixed) [...]

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