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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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The organizational challenges of global trends: A McKinsey Global Survey

January 13th, 2008 · View Comments · Organization & Management

This survey is not free but very intersting to understand manager’s concerns.
The respondents say that intensifying competition for talent, shifting centers of economic activity, and increased technological connectivity are the most important trends for their companies. Moving quickly and dealing with regional diversity are two of the most common concerns.
Two-thirds of the executives say that [...]

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Enterprise and intranet 2.0 : starting from the right point

March 28th, 2007 · View Comments · Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management, social computing

These late days we could see a lot of posts about enterprise 2.0 adoption, some of them saying it will be very hard, others saying that enterprise 2.0 won’t change the organisation. In the one hand I’m convinced we’re at the beginning of a very important transformation in enterprises. In the other I know [...]

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Corporations will have to learn to let go

February 6th, 2007 · View Comments · Organization & Management

In the coming era of global integrated companies, success will depend on the ability to innovate. Trust will be a leading value in innovative organisations and in order to build trust-based companies, learning to let go will be essential.
To read more, have a look at the words of Sam Palmisano, IBM’s Sherman.
Less control, more trust…Big [...]

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Thoughts and guidelines

January 31st, 2007 · View Comments · HR & Management 2.0, Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management

How to make people understand they have to move their organization ? That enterprise 2.0 is not fashionable but suitable ? And how to convince those who only believe in information technology that putting 2.0 tools in an organization is not the starting point but the consequence of a change in global strategy and organization.
First, [...]

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