Optimizing workload has always been a key concern for businesses and managers. A too heavy workload regarding to the capacity leads to explosion, a too low workload means resources are wasted. I don’t even mention last minute assignments to face imponderables. In brief, bad adjustments have an heavy price.
In a manufacturing economy things are more [...]
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Is workload measurement the problem of the century ?
January 14th, 2010 · View Comments · HR & Management 2.0, IT, Organization & Management, social computing
Tags: email·enterprise social networks·human reources·indicators·information overload·management·marketplaces·productivity·quality·real time·social networks·workload
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 [...]
Tags: assessment·autonomy·Communities·control·decision·decision-making·enterprise 2.0·evaluation·gary hamel·goal·hierarchy·Innovation·intangible assets·leadership·management·management-2.0·marketplaces·measure·measurement·organization·re-engeneering·reconfiguration
Enterprise 2.0 and the myth of content generation
January 31st, 2009 · View Comments · Intranets & collaborative tools, enterprise 2.0, information, social computing
Web 2.0 is fueled by user generated content (UGC) ans, logically, it should be the same within companies. It’s obvious : when connecting people to information and connectiing people through information is a driving principle, it’s easy to undersand that the existence of a published and shared information is the key to the new form [...]
Tags: contents·employee generated content·enterprise 2.0·information·information capital·marketplaces·ugc·user generated contents·value·web-2.0
Is multitasking dangerous or a myth ?
January 23rd, 2009 · View Comments · Communication, Information / knowledge management, Organization & Management, social computing
Multitasking is a big issue for both people and organization. It’s the (presumed and made essential) ability for someone to do many things at the same time. The social media phenomenon and the increasing number of information flows people are exposed to are making this concern more and more central.
I’m afraid that, behing th multitasking [...]
Tags: Communication·enterprise-social-software·flows·information·knowledge·marketplaces·multitasking·productivity·social media·social-software·software·supply chain
Can enterprises organize themselves as markets
January 17th, 2009 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Information / knowledge management, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0, knowledge-economy, social computing
What’s a market ? It’s a place when offer meets demand.
Companies love markets because it’s the more efficient way to find outlets for their products and identify suppliers. It’s a competitiveness factor because of the outlets it provides and the optimization of costs that competition makes possible.
The “social” web is a market somehow. Contents can [...]
Tags: coase·coordination·costs·enterprise-social-software·internet·management·market·marketplaces·organization·production·social-software·social-web·soo·transaction costs·web·web-2.0
Information flows needs a plumber
September 23rd, 2008 · View Comments · Communication, IT, Intranets & collaborative tools, enterprise 2.0, information, social computing
Information overload has thress main causes : the first is information dispersal among too many tools which force people to continuously switch from one to another in order to be sure not miss anything, the second is the fact people are affected by the information flow that fall on them as is they were at [...]
Tags: conferences·email·enterprise 2.0·information·information systems·marketplaces·rass·supply chain·w2e_europe08·web 2.0 expo·web-2.0
Enterprise 2.0 : the last step before the project economy ?
April 15th, 2008 · View Comments · Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0
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, [...]
Tags: coase·digital-natives·engaement·externalization·innocentive·intrapreneurship·knowledge-economy·marketplaces·partnership·transaction costs·transactions
Enterprise is not a closed system : the Starbucks example
March 22nd, 2008 · View Comments · Communication, Communities, Ideas & innovation management
No company can (sur)vive isolating itself from the outside. In the other hand it has to grow richer because of all its ecosystem and consider it as an allied, not an enemy. There are many reasons for that.
- improve the way it benchmarks by taking the most of ideas and feedbacks coming from what’s essentiel [...]
Tags: BI·Communities·corporate culture·culture·innovatio·marketplaces·strarbucks
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