Bertrand DUPERRIN’s Notepad

Cloud computing is the new buzzword, at least untill the next one comes.It’s a reality we can’t ignore, even if it’s more about a question of place than about technology : it’s the place where things happen.
Let me explain. Consider someone who is able to work alone and must work this way. It’s the efficient [...]

You must have felt this agitation that went through the blogosphere these last day, but that was also relayed by traditional medias. Web 2.0 is dead. The rumor didn’t start from this note from Michael Arrington but since he’s got a bigger loudhailer than most of the population his voice carried farer. Then hundreds if [...]

Some of my reflections point to the slow but unavoidable outsourcing of the human side of the enterprise.
First because of organization models and systems that allow companies to focus on their core business : identifying key issues and needs, they can concentrate on elaboring a stragegy to respond…and let others do the rest. The rest, [...]

A few months ago I wrote about my meeting with Rex Lee, a nice conversation during which we talked about what he implemented at Bell Canada, he showed me a few projects and, above all, he explained me the vision that was behind all that. Among those tools and projects was ID-ah ! , [...]

In a previous post I was saying that, one day, enterprise’s main role will be to organize a value chain and coordinate expertises, some of them being internal and some others internal. Economy’s “knowledgization” where assets resides more in individual knowledge, transaction costs near to zero which may cause a reversed application of Coase’s law,  [...]

A little time ago I wrote about Cisco’s Human Network. One of the point I raised was to know is Cisco was about to only play a facilitator’s game or try to exploit its network’s fruits when relevant. The answer was obvious,  but now it gets materialized and is called  I-Prize.
It’s nothing less that a [...]

Distributed innovation, collaboration with clients and partners are becoming central in companies’ strategic reflexion.
To learn more about this subject I often discuss here, it’s at McKinsey’s.

Tags: distributed innovation , Innovation , mckinsey , open innovation , partnership , 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 [...]

I took advantage from my trip to attend Webcom Montreal to make a flying visit to Toronto. The main purpose was family but it was also the occasion to meet Rex Lee in person at his Toronto’s office. For those who don’t know him, he’s collaboration director at Bell Canada and, although less mediatized [...]

I’ve just read with a real interest this post, about the power of people networks. Top make it short it says that people will be increasingly attracted by regions who offer a strong potential of networking and interactions because it allows them to exploit more their talents and maximise its economic reward.
The author concludes this [...]