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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 'intangible assets'

When does the value of a “social object” have to be measured ?

June 2nd, 2009 · View Comments · Information / knowledge management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing

Let’s be clear, I’m talking about value, not about ROI (although the one is a part of the other) and about “social objects” in the large sense of the word : everything that can exist on a social platform, when using social software. It may be a content, an information specially generated, an information shared [...]

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Considering the gap between management 2.0 and enterprise 2.0

February 24th, 2009 · View Comments · HR & Management 2.0, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0

I’ve been neglecting the management 2.0 topic for a long time although it was what this blog was about since 2005. Last years I slowely slipped from management 2.0 to enterprise 2.0, even if I find it sad that there were so many people to discuss about of make companies use 2.0 tools than people [...]

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Taking the most of intangible assets creates strong competitive advantage

December 21st, 2008 · View Comments · knowledge-economy

A glance at McKinsey’s to read one of their latest production : “Using Power Curves to assess industries dynamics“.
A survey based on  150 companies revenue shows that performance doesn’t follow a bell curve but a “power curve” that shows that most companies in a given indistry are above the average. What, said differently, means that [...]

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Enterprise 2.0 : my predictions for 2009

December 18th, 2008 · View Comments · HR & Management 2.0, Human resources, Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, knowledge-economy, social computing

Honestly I was not sure I would conform to the annual predictions tradition. Finally, since my 2008 edition was not that bad (shift from “social tools at people’s disposal” to the acknowledgement it needed inclusion in business process) and Susan kindly asks for it, I’ll try to do something interesing this year.
That said, I will [...]

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Web 2.0 tools to improve information readiness

November 28th, 2008 · View Comments · Ideas & innovation management, enterprise 2.0, information, knowledge-economy, social computing

Today, many opinions converge to admit two things :
• companies need to be more and and more reactive in order to run their traditionnal activities in a more and more complexe context, where foreseeability is very uncertain and where sharp competences and complex competences assembling are needed in a short range of time. Something like [...]

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Halves strategies lead to crisis

November 25th, 2008 · View Comments · Organization & Management, strategy

I recently wrote about issues experienced by companies that focus on halves strategies. The obvious conclusion was that preparing the future is very hard when one’s only purpose is to maintain the pas.
By the way, why do we have to prepare for the future since everything is doing right now and doing things the same [...]

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Tools on the cloud for “on the ground” benefits

November 13th, 2008 · View Comments · Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, knowledge-economy, social computing

Even if cloud computing is not the same thing as social software and enterprise 2.0 et is more about the way tools are delivered  than functionnal classication, it makes interesting shortcuts  in order to remind people of some obvious things that are too often forgotten.
I always repeat that social tools related benefits are not to [...]

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Web 2.0 : a more realistic systemic approach

October 7th, 2008 · View Comments · Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0, social computing

This could have passed unnoticed. In a post about Dell an the fact their online shop was more 2.0 than their ideagora Ideastorm, Tim O’Reilly made his definition of web 2.0 seriously evolve from the original one.
For your information, here his the “original” defintion as it can be found on wikipedia today.
Web 2.0 is the [...]

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Enterprise 2.0 can impact beyond intangible assets

July 1st, 2008 · View Comments · Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0, strategy

In some pevious posts we (quickly) saw how enterprise 2.0 can impact enterprise’s intangible assets, supporting the value creation process.
But, looking at the following diagram, we can also wonder if it’s possible to go further in this reflection.

According to me it’s obvious, mostly on the following issues :

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How Enterprise 2.0 can help managing and improving organizational capital to support strategy

June 25th, 2008 · View Comments · Ideas & innovation management, enterprise 2.0, strategy

This is the third (and last) post of the series about enterprise 2.0 and intangible assets. Why do “organization capital” ? It’s the ability to mobilize and support the change process that is needed to support strategy.
It’s made of four elements :
- culture : appropriation of the vision and key values needed to support strategy
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