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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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Networking and collaboration : is enterprise a land of trust or distrust ?

February 11th, 2010 · View Comments · Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0

I recently wrote that it what obvious to me that for many people some activities and behaviors had to remain in their private sphere and, that social networking and everything that comes with is not a part of what they naturally want to transpose in the workplace. I also temperated my words saying that, of [...]

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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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Personal branding is not about self promotion but collective intelligence

September 17th, 2009 · View Comments · HR & Management 2.0, Human resources, Social Networking

It’s incredible to see how the subject became fashionable in a few months (anyway in France) and how many experts suddenly emerged on the subjec. As  Vincent Berthelot [fr] I was rather taken aback about what it was all about but, at the end, I came to a quick conclusion: – if everyone is transparent [...]

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Branding without an improvement process is a flash in the pan

June 1st, 2009 · View Comments · Communication, Human resources, Social Networking, recruitment, social computing

Now that people realize that the traces everyone (businesses or individuals) leaves on the net impact their economic activities everyday more, “branding” is becoming a very trendy issue. First “personal” then, logically, “corporate”. Then, things should be as perfect as possible in a perfect world. Everyone will be able to know everything about anyone, so [...]

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Is digital identity only for experienced people ?

April 23rd, 2009 · View Comments · Human resources, Social Networking, recruitment, social computing

A few weeks ago I attended an event called YouOnTheWeb which purpose was to make people aware of digital identity, e-reputation and personal branding. A competiton was organized to reward students who are managing well their personal brand what means, on an employer’s side, that their abiliy to be relevant on a specific topic can [...]

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