Bertrand Duperrin's Notepad

Thoughts on management, HR, social networks…and enterprise 2.0

" 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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Enterprise 2.0 and quality

July 14th, 2009 · View Comments · Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0

I’ve always been convinced that enterprise 2.0 had a hudge potential but that it was often wasted because of 2.0 experts’ navel-gazing and a kind of will to marginalize those they consider as backward-looking people. In short, enterprise 2.0 often failed to speak a language that could be understood by the enterprise. It’s in no [...]

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Efficiency, performance, constraints and things 2.0

April 16th, 2009 · View Comments · HR & Management 2.0, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0

We saw in a previous post that one of the best ways to improve performance was not to push to people to make impossible things but to get rid of the constraints that crub their performance. Once that said, if the vision is understandable by everyone (rather than trying to push something large in a [...]

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Out of the crisis ! How ? Why ?

March 4th, 2009 · View Comments · HR & Management 2.0, Organization & Management

Rehearsal of some of the problems.We live in a society dedicated to dividends, organization, decision, orders from top to bottom, confrontation (every idea put forth must win or lose) and all-out war to destroy a competitor be he at home or abroad. Take no prisonner, there ust be winners and there must be losers. This [...]

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Considering the gap between management 2.0 and enterprise 2.0

February 24th, 2009 · View Comments · HR & Management 2.0, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0

I’ve been neglecting the management 2.0 topic for a long time although it was what this blog was about since 2005. Last years I slowely slipped from management 2.0 to enterprise 2.0, even if I find it sad that there were so many people to discuss about of make companies use 2.0 tools than people [...]

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Enterprise 2.0 : the CISCO case

January 9th, 2009 · View Comments · Communities, Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0, social computing, strategy

You must have noticed how many posts have been published about Cisco these late days. The US giant seems to be the first example of global enterprise 2.0 or, at least, to be the first to meet such a recognition for its success. Many things have been writen about that and it will be easy [...]

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How Enterprise 2.0 can help managing and improving organizational capital to support strategy

June 25th, 2008 · View Comments · Ideas & innovation management, enterprise 2.0, strategy

This is the third (and last) post of the series about enterprise 2.0 and intangible assets. Why do “organization capital” ? It’s the ability to mobilize and support the change process that is needed to support strategy.
It’s made of four elements :
- culture : appropriation of the vision and key values needed to support strategy
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Quotations between provocation and good sense

June 3rd, 2008 · View Comments · Organization & Management, Quotations, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0

Sometimes I find sentences which are really worth by themselves, that have a lot of meaning, whether in or out of their original context. I often bookmark them but this time I think they’re worth a post. As a matter of fact I find two series of nice quotations in two posts I recently read [...]

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