Summary : the challenge any businesse face is to find an efficient way to work while keeping it’s balance in a fast moving environment. I implies adaptability from the smallest part of the system, people, but also regulation mechanisms that will drive the behaviors of all its components toward a coherent collective action. Making people [...]
Summary : good intentions and passion are useful but not enough. More than individual initiatives happening on the fringe of the organizational model (and sometimes against it), businesses need to develop a really new of way of doing things. While the “enterprise 2.0″ or “social business” has been around for about seven years, where did [...]
Summary : everybody’s talking about social and 2.0 in the workplace but, when it comes to put it at work, they often struggle at moving from a discourse in terms of philosophy and general postures to a practical implementation in everyone’s day to day life. We need to go to a more granular level to [...]
Summary : tomorrow’s enterprise, 2.0, social or whatever needs more engagement from employees. But there’s a problem : everything show they’re less and less engagement. Worrying but logical, depending on what one really means by engagement. As a matter of fact, considering the lack of will to undertake the needed change, the word engagement is [...]
Summary : a conductive organization knows how to organize on information flows and turn them not into inert matter but into actionable assets to serve the market and sustain its own success. Information management is not an isolated discipline but a comprehensive approach of how the whole company should operate. In “The Conductive Organization”, Hubert [...]
Summary : with his new books, Gary Hamel sets down the cornerstones of the enterprise of tomorrow. Social, connected ? Hamel avoids the usual clichés and put things in a more traditional perspective that could be understood by any leader and not only those who once had a vision by looking at facebook a morning. [...]
Summary : most of the value proposition of the new organization models organizations try to implement is about emergent collaboration. That is nothing more or less that making it possible to mobilize the right resources where and when they’re needed and let them self organize to solve a problem. This is a goal that’s still [...]
Summary : at the beginning, enterprise 2.0 used to be seen as the solution to all the problems organizations have accumulated without challenging them frontally. One thing leading to another, the solution turned out to be more complex to implement than expected. In the end it appears that, to make enterprise 2.0 work, we need [...]
Summary : will tomorrow’s businesses be people centric ? Customer centric ? Rethinking centricity shows that organizations are paying more and more attention to others and aren’t focused on themselves anymore. But it’s very easy to have good intentions…and never do beyond this step. Listen, leave others some room, pay attention…and so what ? If [...]
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