Bertrand DUPERRIN’s Notepad

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]