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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 'intranet'

How to build an intranet 2.0 ?

August 28th, 2009 · View Comments · Intranets & collaborative tools, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing

Web 2.0 brought enterprise 2.0 which is powered by its own web, the intranet. So it’s logical that the intranet had to become 2.0 too. Problems come when someone curious or missioned by his hierachy comes and ask the fatal questions : ” How to make my intranet become 2.0″.  Seing plenty of hope in [...]

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Are you swine flu-ready ?

August 21st, 2009 · View Comments · Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management

Swine flu, or more exactly Influenza A H1N1 (that has nothing porcine) is waiting close to our doors and is a real threat to businesses. Ok, we should stop spreading doom and gloom. I don’t want to try to stir up controversy, we’re not talking about plague and the risk of seing the population being [...]

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Participate in the 4th Global Intranet Strategies Survey

July 31st, 2009 · View Comments · Intranets & collaborative tools

As every year, Jane McConnell is working on her yearly survey about intranet Strategies. A survey that is eagerly-expected because of the high quality of her works.
You can still participate until August 31st.
The 4th annual Global Intranet Strategies Survey opened at the end of June and will stay open until August 31. All participants receive [...]

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The enterprise and the web

June 26th, 2009 · View Comments · IT, Intranets & collaborative tools, social computing

Finally, many current debates are about the enterprises’ ability to understand, master and harness the web, internally. This may seem trivial because purely technological and being about competences that are much lighter that those IT depts have been using for decades. But, at the end, it’s more complicated that it seems.
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Story of a professional disconnection

March 14th, 2009 · View Comments · Organization & Management, Worklife

This little story I’m going to tell you is purely imaginary. It’s neither mine nor anybody’s in particular. But it may become ours, one day.
January 2009 :Back to the office after a few days off. I take five minutes to send my greetings to all my friends. Nothing’s like Facebook to do that. I realize [...]

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How do good enterprise 2.0 idea perish

February 17th, 2009 · View Comments · Intranets & collaborative tools, enterprise 2.0, social computing

No comment. A good way to understand how old habits (sometimes) prevent good ideas to turn into successful projects.
enterprise 2.0, enterprise-social-software, idées, Innovation, intranet, management-des-idées, social-software

Tags: enterprise 2.0 , enterprise-social-software , ideas , ideas-management , Innovation , intranet , social-software

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Social computing revolution at Procter and Gamble

March 21st, 2008 · View Comments · Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing

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 [...]

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From repetition to differenciation

February 19th, 2008 · View Comments · Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0, social computing

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 [...]

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Intranets are made for working

January 28th, 2008 · View Comments · Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management

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.
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Is facebook Evil or a nice training field ?

November 21st, 2007 · View Comments · Communities, Intranets & collaborative tools, Social Networking, social computing

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. [...]

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