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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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How to understand and position enteprise 2.0 in the real enterprise

December 1st, 2009 · View Comments · Communication, Communities, HR & Management 2.0, Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing

It’s time to sum up all the thoughts I had these last months. I tried to start from both the concerns expressed by C level managers asking for a global vision and ground managers who needed a “hands on” vision because they don’t have time to waste to try to understand such nebulous things. Having [...]

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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 [...]

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Enterprise 2.0 and the myth of content generation

January 31st, 2009 · View Comments · Intranets & collaborative tools, enterprise 2.0, information, social computing

Web 2.0 is fueled by user generated content (UGC) ans, logically, it should be the same within companies. It’s obvious : when connecting people to information and connectiing people through information is a driving principle, it’s easy to undersand that the existence of a published and shared information is the key to the new form [...]

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Developing and managing information capital to support strategy : can enterprise 2.0 help ?

June 19th, 2008 · View Comments · IT, Ideas & innovation management, enterprise 2.0, social computing, strategy

After some days “off” (too busy at work to take care of my blog), this is the second post of my series about how enterprise may support strategy. After human capital comes information capital.
It’s about assessing the availability of the information systems, networks and infrastructure which aee needed to support strategy.
A first sight the two [...]

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Giving problem solving a framework

June 12th, 2008 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Information / knowledge management, knowledge-economy, social computing

Since today collaboration means solving problems together, it’s important companies provide their employees with a problem solving framework.
Why not a methodology or a process ?
In fact both are needed but the most important lack is about the framework.
There are high level issues where problem solving needs a strong methodology, a dedicated taskforce (that’s what I [...]

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Reaching strategic goals : intangible assets matter. The Strategy maps approach to Enterprise 2.0

May 28th, 2008 · View Comments · enterprise 2.0, knowledge-economy, strategy

As I said in a previous post, there’s one and only one way to know whether something is worth or not : whether it supports the enteprise’s strategy, whether not. In the first case it’s worth being done, in the second it’s worth being forgotten. In concrete termes, that mean the only question in [...]

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