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Entries Tagged as 'project management'

Is there a 2.0 way to draw an org-chart ?

February 11th, 2009 · View Comments · Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0, project management

When talking about enterprise 2.0, something we offer hear is “sounds interesting but our company is not designed to work this way”. Understand : we decide to do something and we “push” it, don’t even think of allowing a bottom-up flow to exist in this context. Of course, that causes gaps, the company isn’t able [...]

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What kind of social networks do companies need ?

February 4th, 2009 · View Comments · Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing

Need for synergies, for connections, to do more with less ? Whatever the official reason is (and sometimes the unofficial one), companies are now turning back to the gool old network, renamed “social network” to stick to the the current climate, to find new pools of performance.
Because companies focus on efficiency, people’s network is not [...]

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External social networks are not only for marketing purposes

January 21st, 2009 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Communication, Communities, Organization & Management, project management

Generally, when I talk about social networks for other people than employees, I’m answered “ah ? I thought you were not interested in all these marketing things”. This is the obvious proof that, for many people and many companies, when you aim at an external audiance it’s for communication and sale purpose, following a one [...]

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Project Managers should focus less on processes and more on people

August 26th, 2008 · View Comments · project management

A second post on project management, not so far from the first.
As written in this post, if current methods reassure people, they obviously show their limits. At a matter of fact :

KPMG’s survey results which contrasted 2005 with 2003 revealed the following:

There was an 81% increase in the number of projects globally
There was an 88% [...]

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Do you know a good, free, online, project management app ?

July 11th, 2008 · View Comments · IT, project management

This morning I received an email from a shattered friend.
She works for a company that organizes conferences and have something like 45 projects to manage at the same time, each of them being at a different stage of its life, and a lot of incoming and outgoing contacts (with both internal teams and outside people). [...]

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One day, every project will be agile

June 27th, 2008 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Organization & Management, project management

The time is not far when the question of reinventing project management will be a key issue. The purpose will be to reconsider a project as something that have to fulfill a need and not an objective by itself as it’s so often. How can we see a project is its own purpose ? [...]

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Is creativity the only answer to complexity ?

May 21st, 2008 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0, knowledge-economy

Basically that would make sense. In an industrial economy everything is product-centric : we know what it is, what it’s made of, of which pieces it’s composed, there’s one and only one to produce and assemble them, and everyone knows exactly what he has to do. It’s a system based on infinite repetition of totally [...]

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