The world of communication and marketing is worried because of the consecration of digital medias, an highbrow word used to talk about the web by people who are suddently feeling out of date.
For many people, the revolution brought by the web is the so-called new “power” that’s in internauts’ hands. According to me this power, [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Human resources'
Will you know how to export your conversations and focus on transactions ?
December 7th, 2009 · View Comments · Communication, HR & Management 2.0, Social Networking, recruitment
Tags: attention·Communication·conversations·exchanges·Human resources·marketing·recruitment·social networks·transactions
Thoughts on social learning
October 29th, 2009 · View Comments · Human resources, Social Networking, social computing
What’s social learning ? The word comes more and more often in lots of conversations, everyone understands what’s behind and yet everyone has his own definition. That’s the reason the idea formed at Ecollab to ask some experts what was their vision and to gather all these views into a whitepaper. And for once I [...]
Which future for middle managers ?
October 1st, 2009 · View Comments · Human resources, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0, social computing
Among the subjects that are classified “sensitive” by many companies, middle management is not one of the least. It’s easy to understand that the latter will be widely impacted by the emergence of networked ,”unintermediarized” organizations, what brings legitimate fears. Companies fear the consequences of mid-managers fears and reaction and want to preserve the internal [...]
Tags: change·culture·enterprise 2.0·Human resources·management·middle-management·social media·social-software
People Centric Organizations ? Not that sure…
September 24th, 2009 · View Comments · Human resources, Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing
One of the most common thing we can hear about enterprise 2.0 is that “it’s about people”. Even if it delivers a meaningful meassage, it brings more questions than it solves, leaving enterprises into doubt, if not in fear. I’m not even sure that everybody agree on what it means at the end. “It’s about [...]
Tags: engagement·enterprise 2.0·Human resources·information capital·management·motivation·people centrism·personal branding·process·sense·social capital·social media·ugc·unions
Stop saying nonsenses about Facebook and productivity
September 3rd, 2009 · View Comments · Human resources, IT, Organization & Management, Social Networking
One day we can read that using Facebook at work increases productivity by 9%. The day after we ear that it decreases by 1,5%. Depending on people’s interest, sometimes a liberal attitude is promoted, sometimes a total ban, sometimes an internal placebo made of home-mades facebook-likes intranet. This is only my own opinion but I’d [...]
Tags: facebook·Human resources·management·productivity·social networks·time·time management
Recruitment process socialization
August 13th, 2009 · View Comments · HR & Management 2.0, Human resources, Social Networking, recruitment, social computing
New concrete example of socialization : the recruitment process. Here again, we’ll see that it’s possible to do things without Copernican Revolution or harming anyone.
The situation
Enterprises have to hire people. Even if the market is sometimes hard for applicants, no company can work without people. The need is clear : hiring people who fit both [...]
Tags: endorsement·Human resources·recruitment·social networks·socialization
Make your own enterprise 2.0 diagnosis
August 11th, 2009 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, IT, enterprise 2.0, social computing
The concept of enterprise 2.0 is still unclear to many, even though they are often less far from it than they think. If, for sticking to their reality, we look at it in terms of process socialization, we realize that a lot of Mr. Jourdain in companies that have a logical relatively close but not [...]
Generation Y and Boomers : Together They Can
July 30th, 2009 · View Comments · Human resources, Organization & Management
One more article that adds to the already imposing amount of Gen-Y related things. I (finally) recently came across something really worth on the subject in the latest issue of the HBR, an analysis relying on a survey conducted across 50 multinational companies and that confirms what we’ve been seing on the ground, even if [...]
Tags: baby boomers·generation x·generation y·Human resources·intergenerational mentoring·management·mentoring·middle-management
Telecommutig and virtual teams : going too far can harm your organization
July 2nd, 2009 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Human resources, IT, Organization & Management, social computing
Applying good ideas is like nervous tension and cholesterol : too few is dangerous, too much can be harmful. The example of telecommuting and its consequence, virtual teams, is very meaninful.
Telecommuting is, at least partly, the answer to many harms. First, the need for being able to work anywhere (and not only from one’s home). [...]
Tags: collaboration·green IT·Human resources·management·telecommuting·virtual teams
An enterprise 2.0 strategy is something that can’t exist (because it’s already one)
June 23rd, 2009 · View Comments · Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0
This is one misunderstanding that comes very often. Someone asks “what strategy is needed to become an enterprise 2.0 ? ” and you feel like answering “but it’s obvious…you just described it !”. Strange, isn’t it ?
Let’s start from the beginning. There is one undisputed principle : any enterprise is here to produce, its employees [...]
Tags: change·enterprise 2.0·Human resources·management·strategy
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