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 [...]

Serena Software looked conspicuous those last weeks by encouraging its employees to use Facebook. An interesting news at the time the famous social network was accused of making companies loose millions of dollars.
According to Serena’s CEO , preserving a community spirit et creating link inside the company is key in success and performance. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

We all known intranet 2.0 is a matter of transparency, of visibility. These are necessary behaviors but evenu those who agree with that acknowledge it may be frightening for a lot of managers. And they surely consider the bank manager I talked about in a former post is inconscious.
What do people exactly fear ? To [...]

Bain and Company recently published a survey about 2007 trends in management tools. It’s factual and analytic, don’t expect to find here passionate  speech about the anything 2.0 revolution.(download here).
One notable thing is the entry of corporate blogs in the list of the assessed tools. It find it very important that this kind of tool [...]

There are sentences you read as divine messages since they bring an approach to 2.0 adoption that seems to fit much more enterprises stakes and context than tools-centric visions do.
Seen on Euan Semple’s blog, in response to one of his notes :
… it doesn’t help when you have a management which talks about digital futures [...]