Summary : Which enterprise is not trying to rally their employees, improve the famous engagement that’s necessary to economical performance ? So they look for innovative approaches where technology plays a big part as a connection maker and catalyst. Everything that can be tried is tried except what seems the most obvious : actually [...]
Social business : target blue collars and forget technology ?
February 16, 2012 by 1 Comment
Summary : there’s still a large gap between the social media promise and what’s really happening. A gap that’s getter smaller every day but so slowly that many people find it worrying. While large companies still struggle with dealing with their internal contradictions despite of massive investments and fail at mobilizing employees that are mostly [...]
Many challenges and lots of progress to make for HR according to IBM
October 21, 2010 by Leave a Comment
IBM recently issued a study after having gathered insights from more than 700 Chief Human resources officers, titled “Working Beyond Borders”.. I let you peruse this long and interesting document but here’s in a few lines some of my takes from it. Let’s start with te conclusion. As we could expect, it confirms what many [...]
Can we organize without organization ?
April 27, 2008 by 2 Comments
In a previous post I was wondering if we were heading to what I called a project or a partnership economy. In the same way, after meeting Don Tapscott and read “Wikinomics”, the idea came to me that we could soon experience a reverse application of Coase’s theorem. Nothing but logical : if high transaction [...]
Enterprise 2.0 : the last step before the project economy ?
April 15, 2008 by 1 Comment
A few months ago I wondered if we were on the road to an externalisazion of enterprise’s non structuring function, which may paradoxally put value creation outside the enterprise. In this situation the enterprise’s only job would be to manage outsiders according to its needs. I don’t say it’s a good or a bad thing, [...]
Talking with Michel Hervé about turning the pyramid upside down
March 24, 2008 by Leave a Comment
You problably don’t know Michel Hervé and that’s a pity since thy guy is really worth being exported. This entrepreneur is well known for his book “from the pyramid to the networks” (unfortunately only available in french) that describes the way he run his business, has he says, in a participative and democrat way. Something [...]
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