Enterprise 2.0, social enterprise, collaborative enterprise or social business : all these initiatives seem to be doomed to fail or end in a dead-end. That’s what I can learn from many talks I’ve had with practitioners and experts these last months. That’s also what anyone can see on the field and is confirmed by analysts. [...]
It’s taken for granted that the digital workplace is the future of the work environment and, in this perspective, it’s often presented with a technological perspective : platforms, tools, integration, interoperability, mobility etc. But who says workplace also says people. In The Digital Workplace: How Technology is Liberating Work, Paul Miller introduces the Digital Workplace [...]
In short : What are we talking about when talking of Social Business ? A philosophy or a value creation model. Only the second option is viable and allow to draw all the necessary consequences. Without trying to play the endless game of defining social business (even if I have the nice impression that the [...]
In brief : HR Analytics will change turn talent and competences management upside down. But not everything should be put into the hands of technology to reduce people to a couple of numbers. On the contrary the power of technology should be used to analyze jointly factual data and subjective feelings to objectivize things and [...]
After McKinsey, Pierre Audoin Consultants issues their report on the state on social collaboration in Europe. If also offers a comparative vision of how things are doing in France, England and Germany and provides a very sound analysis that matches with what practitioners actually see on the field. German and english are operational, french prefer [...]
In brief : authorizing and using Facebook at work is still a strong debate. Some consider it has a negative impact on work but a closer look can lead to another conclusion : it’s a thermometer of human relationships and management failure. A consequence and not a cause. That’s one of the web’s favorite debate. [...]
In brief: Reciprocal Knowledge Exchange Networks are a means to meet a the same time the need for peer-to-peer and managed learning. A book tels us why and how the French Postal Services (La Poste) has made it work for the last 5 years. I recently mentioned Enterprise Reciprocal Knowledge Exchange Networks as a good [...]
In short : while digital was supposed to trigger a new era for for marketing, it seems to be slowly killing it. Low performance and lost of trust from boards are established facts. But blaming CMOs is a too easy shortcut : they won’t be successful until joint and multidisciplinary programs are implemented. Social media [...]
In short: even if traditional approaches have fine days ahead, there’s an increasing need for niche learning in a conversational and adhoc fashion. A need that can be met with the help of social technologies but they won’t be enough to prevent enterprises from updating their view of learning and officializing emerging approaches. So here’s [...]
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