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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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People Centric Organizations ? Not that sure…

September 24th, 2009 · View Comments · Human resources, Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing

One of the most common thing we can hear about enterprise 2.0 is that “it’s about people”. Even if it delivers a meaningful meassage, it brings more questions than it solves, leaving enterprises into doubt, if not in fear. I’m not even sure that everybody agree on what it means at the end. “It’s about [...]

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HR 2.0 as an ongoing process

May 28th, 2009 · View Comments · HR & Management 2.0, Human resources, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, recruitment, social computing

This post is the continuation of the one I wrote on the central role HR have to be given in the change process businesses need to undertake to grow in the current economy.
Most often, identifying a need implies that a project has to be undertaken. A project is made of a number of known and [...]

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From the 5 eras of social web to transforming organizations

May 25th, 2009 · View Comments · Organization & Management, social computing

I had the chance to meet up with Jeremiah Owyang during his last coming in Paris. He presented us his report on the the future of social web. An interesting discussion followed, then we came to have a drink and carried on.
One thing I used to sense and which was confirmed is the specificity of [...]

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Enterprise social networks are not fun if not used to work

March 24th, 2009 · View Comments · Human resources, enterprise 2.0, social computing

A few feeks ago I was interviewed about enterprise social networks, especially abou the new dynamics they bring within organizations. The point was the “festive” feeling they can bring in people’s day to day jobs. The article the journalist started from was this note from British Telecom : “Social Networking : Time to ‘Party On’“.
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Story of a professional disconnection

March 14th, 2009 · View Comments · Organization & Management, Worklife

This little story I’m going to tell you is purely imaginary. It’s neither mine nor anybody’s in particular. But it may become ours, one day.
January 2009 :Back to the office after a few days off. I take five minutes to send my greetings to all my friends. Nothing’s like Facebook to do that. I realize [...]

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Wasting time is not a matter of tools

October 2nd, 2008 · View Comments · Human resources, Organization & Management, Social Networking, social computing

On of the main issues about social software introduction within companies is that it would make people waste time. In order to answer this question, we have to understand the underlying concerns.
Because the suggested way of working doesn’t need many discussions : in the current context, people are more efficient in a network rather than [...]

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Will everybody become chief HR officer tomorrow ?

June 5th, 2008 · View Comments · Human resources, Organization & Management, social computing

“Everybody’s a Chief HR Officer” : it’s the english translation of a french book that is supposed to be the holy bible for every student who cares about this kind of issues. Well, that was supposed to be when I was sutying in business school. To be totally honest, I found the message more intersting [...]

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Web 2.0 at work : get passionate employees

May 20th, 2008 · View Comments · Human resources, enterprise 2.0, social computing

Via Moovement.

Tags: enterprise 2.0 , generation y , Human resources , implication , motivation , web-2.0

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Trilogy of needs in enterprise 2.0

March 12th, 2008 · View Comments · Human resources, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0, social computing

When we want a project to be sucessful we can, basically, define some key success factors. They are not the only ones but, if they’re missing n they are many chances the project fails. I’ll mainly speak about projects aiming at making people more efficient.
First, such a project has to ensue from enterprise’s needs. It [...]

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Self managed communities at Schlumberger

November 14th, 2006 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management

Very interesting article in the Wall Street Journal, about communities of practices at Schlumberger (52.000 employees over 80 countries). The institution of such communities is a success and the company now counts more than 20 ones (and 140 subgroups) involving more thant 10 000 people.

What’s interesting is that Schlumberger is going very far in this [...]

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