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IT interests : good news but too much compartmentalization

October 30th, 2009 · View Comments · IT, social computing

I recently came across this this chart about what IT departments are currently thinking about. What inspires me some thoughts.
First point, as mentioned in the post where I found this document, there’s  nothing really new. Many of these issues have been discussed for years, some are more recent but even when names change, the topics [...]

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Is Saas the future of your corporate IT ?

September 25th, 2009 · View Comments · IT, social computing

This is one more question that haunts many people’s night. More serioulsy, if it doesn’t make people stay awakened all nights long, it creates debates and brings some confusion that doesn’t help businesses to move forward. As a matter of fact deploying any solution is not that easy when one still have many infrastructure related [...]

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Make your own enterprise 2.0 diagnosis

August 11th, 2009 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, IT, enterprise 2.0, social computing

The concept of enterprise 2.0 is still unclear to many, even though they are often less far from it than they think. If, for sticking to their reality, we look at it in terms of process socialization, we realize that a lot of Mr. Jourdain in companies that have a logical relatively close but not [...]

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HR and IT depts in a 2.0 world : same fate ?

June 11th, 2009 · View Comments · Human resources, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing

The question of the role, often considered uncomfortable, of the HR departments in internal social networking projects is becoming more and more meaniningful. This is all the more strategic since it’s one of the only traditional corporate function that has nearly all the needed competences and the legitimacy to drive such projects. Still remain the [...]

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Survey on the use of IT in french companies

February 20th, 2009 · View Comments · Human resources, IT, Intranets & collaborative tools, social computing

Two weeks ago I was invited by Microsoft to attend the presentation of a survey on the use of IT in fench companies. Two things made it really interesting
• Although the fact new generations were transforming the use of IT, there was no global study to quantify and qualify it.
• The methodology was neutral and [...]

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How to integrate innovation in your organization…with your IT dept.

February 17th, 2009 · View Comments · IT, Ideas & innovation management, Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing

I’coming back on an article titled “Teaming Up to Crack Innovation Enterprise Integration” and issued in the Harvard Business Review in last november. It has many interests : it’s about the vital problematic of innovation, it shows this so-called innovation can only be distributed and rely on sharing, it shows how such principles can be [...]

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The future of cloud computing is not necessarily outside the firewall

February 13th, 2009 · View Comments · IT, Intranets & collaborative tools

Discussing wheter companies have to keep their information systemes within their walls or host it, wholly or partly, outside is a central issue.
The Saas or “cloud computing” logic majes sens. The time has come to take away the sacred aura of what,  as Nicholas Carrs  wrote in The Big Switch, is becoming as banal as [...]

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Enterprises far beyond enterprise 2.0

January 20th, 2009 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Human resources, Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, strategy

A few weeks ago I amused myself proposing a few tracks on what enterprise 2.0 may be in 2009. But I think pushing the reflection beyond would be worth : enterprise 2.0 is only a side of a much complex reality that is enterprise and will be of any use only in a global framework. [...]

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New jobs description for Enterprise 2.0 ? Try the Enterprise 2.0 job profiler

December 3rd, 2008 · View Comments · Human resources, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0, recruitment, social computing, strategy

Every day I notice that many companies, conscious that their move toward Enterprise 2.0 -like dynamics is a major issue, are beginning to hire people for new kinds of jobs. It’s both about aligning people-centric activities with corporate purposes, identify new opportunities, energize cross-organiszaiton dynamics, favor new practices and new tools adoption, re-align tools on [...]

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