Bertrand DUPERRIN’s Notepad

For those who are looking for examples, evidences that show “it’s possible” and “it’s make for creating value” and “it’s not only about IT companies”, I suggest to have a look at what’s going on at P&G.
They’ve been using blogs and wikis for seven years to create and share information. In january they decided to [...]

Companies find hard to adopt the “2.0″ attitude, just because it targets an unexploited field of the organization. Since novelty applies to an unexploited domain, why trying to understand it since we don’t use it. Saying that, the question is more about sensibilizing companies about exploring new performance and knowledge fields in order [...]

I’m afraid not as many people as we can expect are aware of that when social media in emerging within the enterprise.
As a matter of fact I attented one of Jane McConnell’s famous breakfasts, which theme was “2.0 and globalisation, collaboration and personnalisation” a couples of day ago and three points held my attenion.
• Stop [...]

Everybody talks about Second Life and try to find it an application within the enterprise. It seems Accenture has such a project for its intranet, IBM has a “secret island” on SL too…
I’m not SL-addicted at all. In fact what I don’t like in Second Life is that it’s not “First Life” enough. Although the [...]

Do you kno netagoraphobia ? Nevertheless it is becoming a very important stake on the internet and on the webizing intranet. By the way don’t look for this word anywhere else, it seems I invented but a lot of people are already aware of that. What’s agoraphobia : the fear of large spaces and by [...]

Another memory from the Intracom Conference, when talking about intranet 2.0 adoption, the role of those intranets on efficiency and colaboration and potential barriers…
If web 2.0 can be defined by uses, would it be possible to be 2.0 without web ?
And my answer is : yes but…not everywhere and not too long.
Step back in history…and [...]

As I said in my last note I attendend an intranet 2.0 experts panel at the last Intracom conference in Paris. The three panelists (Jane McConnell, Padawan..and me) had to give their vision of intranet 2.0 and answer questions of an audience that seemed to be very interested in this new era of intranet and [...]

Last week I attended the Intracom 2007 conference in Paris. This year’s theme was “intranet 2.0, the peopleware era, back to user and e-transformation”.
I found the audience very mature about intranet 2.0 things. For example I was part of a panel with Padawan and Jane McConnell and I really found people asked us the right [...]

Some where waiting for it…we got the news last week : web 2.0 don’t work. It’s the conclusion of a CNET article : nobody collaborates on the collaborative web.
Have we been fooled ? Are all the alleged benefits of web 2.0 only a cloud of smoke ? Sure this kind of conclusion can scare people [...]

Or, if you prefere, providing your teams with the tools which exactly fit their needs and practices will be key in enterprise performance.
Donald Rippert, Accenture’s CTO, saw the future of computing by looking at what teenage people were doing online.
By the way, Accenture launched a facebook-like intranet and is beta testing a virtual training space [...]