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" 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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Social networks are the quintessence of enterprise web 2.0

February 27th, 2009 · View Comments · Information / knowledge management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing

The issue has been emerging for years but it’s now a hard trend : companies don’t consider internal use of web 2.0 as a prospective subject and started to work on its implementation. The network logic and the question of knowing how to implement it is now on CEO”s agendas. All the same, people in [...]

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I spend 28% of my time reading your useless emails !

July 9th, 2008 · View Comments · IT, Information / knowledge management, enterprise 2.0, social computing

That’s what many employees could (should ?) say to their colleagues and managers.
I’ve been pleading for a system which would make the right information find the right people instead of sending grouped emails to people who don’t need them and often forgot those for whom it would have been useful.
I’m often answered the same thing [...]

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Managing information will soon be a key competence

April 5th, 2008 · View Comments · Information / knowledge management

Employees will have to learn how to built their own informational supply chain in order to improve their efficiency at work.

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Informationnal overload is a myth

March 5th, 2007 · View Comments · IT, Organization & Management

It’s also called infobesity and it’s said being the cause of all our sorrows. It stresses those who aren’t able to manage such an amount of information, it causes losses of productivity and its growths makes informationnal quality decrease.
I don’t suscribe to this point of views. Honestly I don’t feel like being overloaded by information. [...]

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