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Even if cloud computing is not the same thing as social software and enterprise 2.0 et is more about the way tools are delivered than functionnal classication, it makes interesting shortcuts in order to remind people of some obvious things that are too often forgotten.
I always repeat that social tools related benefits are not to [...]
A very common discourse within companies is : “our people waste their time on social networks and, more globally, on the web. We have to restrict access to it”.
If, when talking about social networks, it depends on the way people use them, so its important to grant access to what useful for business, I find [...]
I just found interesting numbers on the fact french employees don’t have an intensive use of internet at work[fr]. Although, in countries where employees use it more “it has been the source of a notable part of productivity improvements since the mid 90’s”.
I share the author’s analysis : either while our studies or at work, [...]
It’s a very “hot” question at this time. The blessed days when people could be assessed on hom many pieces they produced a day is over. Now the “knowledge capital” is key, and what has to be assessed is not a controlled production but the ability to face uncertainty and offer solutions.
In brief, expertise, experience, [...]
Some of my reflections point to the slow but unavoidable outsourcing of the human side of the enterprise.
First because of organization models and systems that allow companies to focus on their core business : identifying key issues and needs, they can concentrate on elaboring a stragegy to respond…and let others do the rest. The rest, [...]
It’s funny to see how history seems to be endlessly repeating, how issues that have been fixed years ago are coming back to the surface.
Because the question of productivity, time management, ROI in an enterprise 2.0 or in a Service Oriented Organization remembers me of something that already took place years ago (and was fixed) [...]
Remember, it was a long long time ago, that, in the times we are living, means something like ten years. At this time Airbus was wondering how to compete with Boeing on the big carriersmarket and was working on what would become the A380. On its side, Boeing was not thinking about replacing its mythic [...]
In a previous post I was saying that, one day, enterprise’s main role will be to organize a value chain and coordinate expertises, some of them being internal and some others internal. Economy’s “knowledgization” where assets resides more in individual knowledge, transaction costs near to zero which may cause a reversed application of Coase’s law, [...]
In a former post I gave you my first thought about what I walled SOO or Service Oriented Organizaton. A recent post from Oscar Berg about SOA gave me more ideas about this.
According to him it’s important to focus on reuse which is the very basis of SOA. It is essentiel to isolate, prior to [...]
The idea of this post came to me after a meeting with someone working for the French Armament Comission, a few month ago. When he asked me “do you know what our job is ?” I answered, hesitant, “Choose the weapons the army will use”. “It’s a bit of that, but it’s more complex”. “Really [...]