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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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Entries Tagged as 'information-system'

Interesting Report on IT depts role in value creation

July 16th, 2008 · View Comments · IT, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0

The CIGREF (french big companies CIO club) issued and interesting report co-writen with McKinsey. Although it’s writen in French, [ now availabe in english] I would like to share some points with you. And, if ever you know someone who can make a quick translation for you I think it’s really worht.
- IT doesn’t impact [...]

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People are more likely to share information if they know why

March 29th, 2008 · View Comments · Information / knowledge management, Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0

Companies know their performance depends more and more on their ability to use information. But information that’s not harnessed can’t be used.
There are two kinds of information : company generated information that’s harnessed (even if people within the organization don’t know where to find it), and employee generated information that remains informal and is only [...]

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IT will matter…but differently

March 2nd, 2008 · View Comments · IT, enterprise 2.0, social computing

While social computing platforms emergence within the enterprise seems to be unavoidable, the debate on “does IT (still) matter” is coming back at the forefront of the actuality. Not directly but because, since it’s said that enterprise’s wealth is in people, we can wonder if IT sill matter.
The debate was reopened on Wikinomics, in response [...]

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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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What 2007′enterprise is. Production is changing.

March 3rd, 2007 · View Comments · Organization & Management

At first sight nothing has changed. Coca Cola still produces beverages, GM cars… So what makes me say production changed ?
If you have a closer look you’ll realize that enterprises are now producing information. And what about car manufacturers for example ? Exactly the same. Consider, for example, how much information was necessary to conceive [...]

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