Can we organize without organization ?

April 27, 2008 By 2 Comments

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 costs made organization become larger, low transaction costs on immaterial capital may cause exactly the opposite.

This is exactly the theme of an interesting discussion that emerged on Transnets[fr], following the reading of Here comes everybody. [Read more...]

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Reinventing management according to McKinsey

December 23, 2007 By 3 Comments

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 this concept. It’s the very evidence that, regardless of tools, people who work and think hard on those topics are heading in the right direction.

- The future of enterprise is not enterprise 2.0 (if you consider that enterprise 2.0 is only about using web 2.0 tools within the company) but a company that decides to really face its challenges and adopt the right kind of organization will found in 2.0 tools what’s needed to power it.

- At the end it backs me up in my idea : everything starts with a strategic goal, then with organization, then with management and process, and at the end you have to provide the needed tools. Tools don’t make the enterprise but serve it.

So let’s have a closer look…

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2.0 has to be aware of business orientation

November 25, 2007 By Leave a Comment

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, even if the concept seduces them and if they think it will lead to gains, it’s something that has nothing to do with the organization they’ve known for ages. Hence the conclusion : it’s the reverse so it’s the opposite…so it’s risky…so I’m affraid. In the following paragraphs we’ll see it’s rather about complémentarity and that [Read more...]

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Why enterprise 2.0 won’t kill hierarchy

May 22, 2007 By 2 Comments

images-3thumbnail.jpegA 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 for a lo of things it doesn’t have anything to do with. Perharps there has been bad uses of hierarchical power, but hierarchy in itself must endure. The problem of the non-agile and jamed enterpise is not hierarchy but the vision people have of it.

If fact, this debates is the proof we too often mistake the way we decide for the way we work. [Read more...]

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