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Enteprise 2.0 : real benefits for whom makes efforts

September 15th, 2009 · View Comments · Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing

McKinsey recently issued a new report in the line of what they already published these last months. It’s about the benefits enterprises can take from enterprise 2.0. After having focused on what makes successs possible, McKinsey is now starting to evaluate concrete beenetids. As often, I’d say that those who are closely following the “E2.0 [...]

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Will you have to throw your marketing outside of the window ?

August 17th, 2009 · View Comments · Communication, Ideas & innovation management, Social Networking, social computing

McKinsey recently issued a report entitled Managing beyond web 2.0 which is about constraints businesses are meeting in a connected world. Those who relied on the title to pounce on it may have been very disappointed since it’s more about the realtionships between businesses and their ecosystems than about internal management issues. But that’s not [...]

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Socializing your decision making process

August 4th, 2009 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, HR & Management 2.0, enterprise 2.0

A good example of process socialization is about decision making. A few weeks ago I read this interesting paper from Olivier Sibony (Associate Director at McKinsey). Since the article is in French I hope Google Translator will provide you with a good english translation.
What is it about ?
Making the right decisions is key to be [...]

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McKinsey identifies 6 key sucess factors for enterprise 2.0

March 10th, 2009 · View Comments · Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing

McKinsey recently issued a report on enterprise web 2.0 projects which identifies what they think being the six success factors for such projects. Before reading what follows, I suggest you to read what they were saying about that a few months ago in order to get some distance.
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Companies has been trying to optimize their transactional [...]

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Taking the most of intangible assets creates strong competitive advantage

December 21st, 2008 · View Comments · knowledge-economy

A glance at McKinsey’s to read one of their latest production : “Using Power Curves to assess industries dynamics“.
A survey based on  150 companies revenue shows that performance doesn’t follow a bell curve but a “power curve” that shows that most companies in a given indistry are above the average. What, said differently, means that [...]

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Enterprise 2.0 : success comes from organizational approach

August 3rd, 2008 · View Comments · Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0, strategy

This is what to conclude from this McKinsey Survey (by the way, it confirms what I’ve been thinking for years) that tries to bring us a view of the state of the art in enterprise 2.0 adoption. At first sight I really didn’t like the title “building the web 2.0″ enterprise because it would suggest [...]

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Enterprise 2.0 : the time when Mr McKinsey, The Geek and Mrs Smith seat together

July 20th, 2008 · View Comments · IT, enterprise 2.0, social computing, strategy

One of the biggest issues encountered in the the first “enteprise 2.0″ projets and, globally in everything that aimed at changing in any way the people work according to current issues, was the fact the interested parties where all going in their own direction without taking the others into account. Some thinking the others would [...]

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Organizing for value

July 19th, 2008 · View Comments · Organization & Management, strategy

One more interesting report at McKinsey’s : this one is titled : “Organizing for value“. You will learn that
- the traditional divisional structure is not relevant to create value
- companies will have to fav our long term value creation instead of focusing on achieving short terms objectives.
- in order to  do that they’ll have to [...]

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Interesting Report on IT depts role in value creation

July 16th, 2008 · View Comments · IT, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0

The CIGREF (french big companies CIO club) issued and interesting report co-writen with McKinsey. Although it’s writen in French, [ now availabe in english] I would like to share some points with you. And, if ever you know someone who can make a quick translation for you I think it’s really worht.
- IT doesn’t impact [...]

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Are companies optimizing response time or only maximizing workload ?

July 12th, 2008 · View Comments · Information / knowledge management, Organization & Management, information

Time is key to performance. It’s a well known fact. But while industrial companies have been taking it into account for ages, inventing just in time, it seems that non industrial companies have still some things to learn.
Of course, everybody wll tell me that time is a priority. And everything is done in order employees [...]

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