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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 'knowledge-economy'

Enterprise 2.0 and the measurement hypocrisy

December 8th, 2009 · View Comments · enterprise 2.0, knowledge-economy

Managers use to say that one can’t manage what is not measurable. We can also add that businesses don’t undertake things they can’t drive. So the conclusion is that businesses don’t unertake anything if they can’t measure the result. It may be a statement of the obvioux but it’s always worth reminding it. Talking about [...]

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Your knowledge helps you more than your productivity

September 9th, 2009 · View Comments · Information / knowledge management, economy, knowledge-economy, social computing, strategy

I’ve always had an ambiguous feeling about productivity. In the one hand, doing more or faster with the same amount of resources is a significant improvement. In the other hand, with hindsight, we have to admit that productivity continuously increased these last decades, that whenever a hard time everything is done to increase it even [...]

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When does the value of a “social object” have to be measured ?

June 2nd, 2009 · View Comments · Information / knowledge management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing

Let’s be clear, I’m talking about value, not about ROI (although the one is a part of the other) and about “social objects” in the large sense of the word : everything that can exist on a social platform, when using social software. It may be a content, an information specially generated, an information shared [...]

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Productivity : this elusive graal

January 15th, 2009 · View Comments · Human resources, Organization & Management, knowledge-economy

A few weeks ago  I threw a bottle in the sea on the productivity question, a graal everyone’s looking for without really getting it. I had a lot of answers on my french blog which inspires me to write this synthesis.
I was sure there will be a lot of discussions but I didn’t think there [...]

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What we should know as a new year begins

January 1st, 2009 · View Comments · IT, knowledge-economy

I alreaday published this video last year. It comes back with a new look and soundtrack (even if I liked the previous one too). Nothing new but things to keep in mind while a new year begins. Now we know, let’s act.
Happy New Year everybody !

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Linkedin : from social networking to business intelligence for people

December 5th, 2008 · View Comments · Social Networking, knowledge-economy, social computing

Last week I had the pleasure to be invited to have a chat with Reid Hoffman (Founder and Chairman), Jean-Luc Vaillant (CTO) and Kevin Eyres (Director for Europe) of linkedin who invited a few blogers in a nice Parisian Restaurant in order to talk about their service, its current affairs and its future.
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Web 2.0 tools to improve information readiness

November 28th, 2008 · View Comments · Ideas & innovation management, enterprise 2.0, information, knowledge-economy, social computing

Today, many opinions converge to admit two things :
• companies need to be more and and more reactive in order to run their traditionnal activities in a more and more complexe context, where foreseeability is very uncertain and where sharp competences and complex competences assembling are needed in a short range of time. Something like [...]

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Tools on the cloud for “on the ground” benefits

November 13th, 2008 · View Comments · Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, knowledge-economy, social computing

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 [...]

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Can we identify good managers by the way their team uses the net ?

October 1st, 2008 · View Comments · Human resources, Information / knowledge management, Organization & Management, information, knowledge-economy

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 [...]

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The day when employees will find answers instead of waiting for them to come

September 5th, 2008 · View Comments · Information / knowledge management, Organization & Management, knowledge-economy

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, [...]

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