Knowing that people have to face multiple contexts in their work, we have to make sure that new practices and tools are enablers in each situation. I do not write “social” or “2.0″ in purpose because these words are so tied to communities and social networks that we often forget that the underlying concepts may [...]
Entries Tagged as 'performance'
Adopting new practices in multiple contexts
March 4th, 2010 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing
Tags: activity-specific social software·change·change-management·collaboration·collective efficiency·Communities·enterprise 2.0·organizational performance·performance·social media
The three dimensions of enterprise 2.0
June 16th, 2009 · View Comments · Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing
There are many discussions on what enterprise 2.0 is, what it implies. There are many different visions, depending on each one’s interests. From one extreme to the other we start from an utilitarian vision (providing with new tools) to end with a cultural big bang (new philosophy of organization and economics, new human-centric values). One [...]
Tags: adhoc·enterprise 2.0·ethics·management·organization·organization 2.0·performance·philosophy·soo·technology·web-2.0
Efficiency, performance, constraints and things 2.0
April 16th, 2009 · View Comments · HR & Management 2.0, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0
We saw in a previous post that one of the best ways to improve performance was not to push to people to make impossible things but to get rid of the constraints that crub their performance. Once that said, if the vision is understandable by everyone (rather than trying to push something large in a [...]
Tags: behaviors·Communities·constraints·enterprise 2.0·Human resources·leadership·management·management-2.0·marketing·offer·performance·pressure·resources·sales·theory of constraints·time·trusts·unrefusable offer
Enterprises far beyond enterprise 2.0
January 20th, 2009 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Human resources, Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, strategy
A few weeks ago I amused myself proposing a few tracks on what enterprise 2.0 may be in 2009. But I think pushing the reflection beyond would be worth : enterprise 2.0 is only a side of a much complex reality that is enterprise and will be of any use only in a global framework. [...]
Tags: antoine-riboud·business networks·collaboration·costs·enterprise·enterprise 2.0·evaluation·Human resources·indicators·IT·management·mintzberg·networks·organization·performance·social networks·spendings·strategy·value·value creation
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 [...]
Tags: competitive-advantage·immaterial assets·intangible assets·mckinsey·performance
A crisis that’s not that economic
December 17th, 2008 · View Comments · HR & Management 2.0, Organization & Management, strategy
Many people agree to admit the time has come to built a kind of new economic order, the drifts of the current system having lead to the situation we all know. But, saying that, people often neglect what I consider being a management failure. As for the hen and the egg it’s hard to say [...]
Tags: Communities·crisis·governance·half strategy·management-2.0·mintzberg·performance·strategy
How can we tell we are productive…or not ?
December 3rd, 2008 · View Comments · Organization & Management, knowledge-economy
According to me it’s really a key issue for the future of organization, call it 2.0 or whatever you want. I’m not talking about the need for productivity but about what productivity is and how we can measure it and say someone is productive or not.
When I was young it was a typical excercise in [...]
Logic without good sense leads to catastroph
October 26th, 2008 · View Comments · Human resources, Organization & Management
Two weeks ago I attended a graduation ceremony. In such events I often find speeches boring, but this time I was really interested to ear the message that would be delivered to youn managers/entrepreneurs who will need to find their way in the business world in a time of crisis.
Finally I liked the way things [...]
Tags: crisis·economy·entrepreneurship·finance·Human resources·logic·management·networks·organization·people-centric·performance
While basket ball is counting assists, companies favor individualism
October 12th, 2008 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Human resources, Organization & Management
Sometimes our favorite sports inspire us about our day to day job. In fact I often think than business and sport have many things to learn the ones from the others. And since Andrew McAfee wrote about baseball this summer, let me say a few words about basketball.
In brief it’s a sport which is played [...]
Tags: basket ball·collaboration·evalusation·management·organization·performance
Social medias : don’t mistake revenue for organizational performance
August 13th, 2008 · View Comments · IT, Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management, Recommended Bookmarks, enterprise 2.0, social computing
Yesterday morning someone pointed out this CioInsight survey to me (the publication date isn’t mentioned although it would be an useful information…).
It tells us that, among the technologies that will be expected to drive revenue, only 11,5% of enteprises quote social networks and only 12.3% quote wiki. Does it mean enterprise 2.0 is unable to [...]
Tags: enterprise 2.0·financial performance·organization·organizational performance·performance·sales·social computing·social media·social networks·wiki·workflow
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