Bertrand Duperrin's Notepad

Thoughts on management, HR, social networks…and enterprise 2.0

" 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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The conversational enterprise : opportunity or dead end ?

February 16th, 2010 · View Comments · Communities, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0

If we listen to what’s being said here and there, the future of business is conversation. A concept that’s not so easy to get for many organizations for two reasons :
• Intuitively, conversation makes think of chat…what means waste of time
• In the management ideology, there are those who talk and those who do. So, [...]

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Do we work the same way with providers and with colleagues ?

June 18th, 2009 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Organization & Management

The answer is obviously not. And not only because this is not the same kind of contracts. It’s because businesses still act according to the model that makes them consider their employees on one side and the others on the other side. And in the middle…they build walls. They proctect from the outside although value [...]

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B2B,B2C, E2E…and why not EWP ?

June 15th, 2009 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Organization & Management

My point here is to consider the way the interaction within businesses and between businesses and their environment are thought and realize how old language habits structure our thinking and lock it up into old schemes.
At the beginning there was B2B and B2C. B2B because businesses used to make business together and B2C because businesses [...]

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Boards in the mist

February 11th, 2009 · View Comments · economy, strategy

Boards have to be mobilized in order to make the right decisions to survive the crisis. Nothing new. But according to this essay from McKinsey, it’s far from being that simple.
Three reasons are put forward
• Boards follow unchanging procedures and ritualss. Defines shedules on a yearly basis, documents  and agendas fixed many weekds ago.
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What kind of social networks do companies need ?

February 4th, 2009 · View Comments · Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing

Need for synergies, for connections, to do more with less ? Whatever the official reason is (and sometimes the unofficial one), companies are now turning back to the gool old network, renamed “social network” to stick to the the current climate, to find new pools of performance.
Because companies focus on efficiency, people’s network is not [...]

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Digital Nomads : today’s community for tomorrow’s workers

August 19th, 2008 · View Comments · Human resources, IT, Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management, social computing

Perhaps you’ve already heard about Digital Nomads. More than a site it’s rather a community for those who break the traditionnal link between working and being at the office and use the right tools to be connected and able to work anywhere, anytime. Alone but not isolated : digital nomads often interact more with their [...]

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Do french companies really understand nothing to web 2.0 ?

June 22nd, 2008 · View Comments · Organization & Management, about france, enterprise 2.0, social computing

A recent Jemm Research survey made upon IBM request [fr] shows that french companies can’t identify web 2.0 tools and their benefits. Do we have to worry about that ?
According to me the way things are asked introduces a bias in the answer, most of because they took the issue wrong side up. What are [...]

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