The answer is obviously not. And not only because this is not the same kind of contracts. It’s because businesses still act according to the model that makes them consider their employees on one side and the others on the other side. And in the middle…they build walls. They proctect from the outside although value [...]
Entries Tagged as 'outsourcing'
Do we work the same way with providers and with colleagues ?
June 18th, 2009 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Organization & Management
Tags: collaboration·collaborative-tools·ecosystem·enterprise·interactions·knowledgeworkers·networks·outsourcing·providers·self employment
Do enterprises really outsource the right things ?
August 28th, 2008 · View Comments · Human resources, Information / knowledge management, Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management, knowledge-economy
Some of my reflections point to the slow but unavoidable outsourcing of the human side of the enterprise.
First because of organization models and systems that allow companies to focus on their core business : identifying key issues and needs, they can concentrate on elaboring a stragegy to respond…and let others do the rest. The rest, [...]
Tags: coase·costs·india·Innovation·knowledge-economy·knowledge-workers·KPO·outsourcing·saas·transaction costs
Once knowledge will be outsourced, enterprises will only be expertise coordinators
July 14th, 2008 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, IT, Ideas & innovation management, Information / knowledge management, Organization & Management, information, knowledge-economy, strategy
In a previous post I was saying that, one day, enterprise’s main role will be to organize a value chain and coordinate expertises, some of them being internal and some others internal. Economy’s “knowledgization” where assets resides more in individual knowledge, transaction costs near to zero which may cause a reversed application of Coase’s law, [...]
Tags: C&D·coase·competitiveness·connect and develop·india·Innovation·intellectual partnership·intellectual profil·intellectual property·IP·knowledge-economy·KPO·networks·outsourcing·R&D
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