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Can enterprise 2.0 spread without adhocracy ?

The fact that more and more people agree on the fact that enterprise 2.0 is mainly about the way we do things takes us back to corporate culture issues.
It’s not something that’s easy to deal with. Since it’s been proved that culture is a key performance factor and that it’s important to recruit people who [...]

Enterprise 2.0, Management 2.0, HR 2.0 and Culture 2.0 according to Jon Husband

As I wrote earlier, for most of Webcom audience, Jon Husband’s Keynote was the most impressive (actually it seems he enjoyed it too)
Jon had the kindness to send me his slides so I can share some of them with you.

Tags: corporate culture , culture , enterprise 2.0 , hierarchy , Human ressources , human ressources [...]

Hierarchy vs Wirearchy ? Or only complementarity ?

Wirearchy is a very interesting concept I discovered weeks ago from a post from John Husband. Not that new (he’s been talking about that for a long time) but interesting enough to dig further.
Facts are obvious : new tools allow a new kind of information flows, because they’ree generated by peope. Those flows allow new [...]

Can we organize without organization ?

In a previous post I was wondering if we were heading to what I called a project or a partnership economy. In the same way, after meeting Don Tapscott and read “Wikinomics”, the idea came to me that we could soon experience a reverse application of Coase’s theorem. Nothing but logical : if high transaction [...]

Reinventing management according to McKinsey

After having published some studies about the “soft ROI” of organizational performance and informal networks, McKinsey brought out something very interesting about the need of reinventing management.
Before going into the document, a few things about all those relevant analysis from McKinsey :
- McKinsey treats a lot of problematics in direct relationship with enterprise 2.0…without mentioning [...]

2.0 has to be aware of business orientation

In the “let’s make 2.0 a performance oriented tool instead of a nice concept”, some more ideas.
What are enteprise 2.0 specialists biggest challenges ? Overriding fear and have the tools adopted in order to demonstrate their added value.
Because by dint of hearig about agility, informal, off project spontaneous connexions between individuals, decision makers realize than, [...]

Why enterprise 2.0 won’t kill hierarchy

A note inspired by this very good post by Tom Davenport. Not only enterprise 2.0 won’t change hierarchy but also it’s essential it won’t. Pretending to knock down hierarchy is, according to me an heresy, an utopian dream…and something very dangerous.
Hierarchy is essential to any form of organization. The fact is it’s considered responsible [...]