We all know our brain is composed of two hemispheres. Each of us is more comfortable with one than the other, that implies many things in the way we do our daily tasks. Obviously we use both sides, but we take more from one, very few people being able to use their complete brain.
When you build a team, the art consists of chosing people who have complementary use of their brain, that’s to say mixing administrators, planners, facilitators, visionaries. What is unusual at an individual level can be build at the team level.
If you consider enterprise as a team, it’s obvious enterprises decided a long time ago to use only half of their brain.
Which are the available tools to help enterprises using their right brain ? Nearly none. Hopeless when you know this side is responsible for global analysis, the notion of group, and creativity.
When I talk about intranets 2.0, the point is not to pull down what already exists but to add social tools to exploit the enterprise full potential, knowing organizations especially miss things related to innovation, creativity and “all things we can make together”.
Till then enterprises only focused on process and administration tools, that’s to say on how to exploit their left brain. Now it’s time to exploit their right brain.
You may also have a look at this very interesting note (in french but I think everyone can understand the diagram).
These late days we could see a lot of posts about enterprise 2.0 adoption, some of them saying it will be very hard, others saying that enterprise 2.0 won’t change the organisation. In the one hand I’m convinced we’re at the beginning of a very important transformation in enterprises. In the other I know there’s a lot a brakes, of fears, that make enterprise 2.0 hard to accept and to implement. In fact, and as I said here, the question is to know what we’re really talking about. At first sight you would be surprised if I tell you how much I appeciated a note by Tom Davenport called “
One of the main interests of an intranet 2.0 is its ability to favor exchanges and interactions. At the time organization have to be not only productive but also intelligent and when knowledge workers are taking more and more importance, this is a kind of thing companies can’t neglect.
If you’re staying in France next week and want to see how an collaborative intranet 2.0 can help you to manage your HR problematics, you can attend the conference that will take place at the Microsoft Technology Center Microsoft Technology (Salle Everest, 148 rue de l’université 75007 Paris) on tuesday october 31st from 5 to 7 PM.
You can find the "original" french version of this blog here

