Bertrand Duperrin's Notepad

Thoughts on management, HR, social networks…and enterprise 2.0

" 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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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 and [...]

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Will you have to throw your marketing outside of the window ?

August 17th, 2009 · View Comments · Communication, Ideas & innovation management, Social Networking, social computing

McKinsey recently issued a report entitled Managing beyond web 2.0 which is about constraints businesses are meeting in a connected world. Those who relied on the title to pounce on it may have been very disappointed since it’s more about the realtionships between businesses and their ecosystems than about internal management issues. But that’s not [...]

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Enterprise 2.0 as a part of the Global Enterprise

May 12th, 2009 · View Comments · HR & Management 2.0, Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0

Many questioning about enterprise 2.0 these last weeks. How to make it work, how help companies to understand it, how to calculate the ROI ? So many questions that, at the end, can be summed up in only one : undestranding how these new logics can integrate into the existing and add to it. Without [...]

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Think 2.0 and search for your client

April 2nd, 2009 · View Comments · HR & Management 2.0, Organization & Management

In the “how to  build enterprise 2.0″ or “how to make management 2.0 happen in the workplace” series (which is not always the same thing) I think that before defining any action plan it’s important to understand the logic underneath. As a matter of fact, it’s impossible to bring anyone to do anything if he [...]

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Management 2.0, SOO and productivity

March 26th, 2009 · View Comments · HR & Management 2.0, Organization & Management

I started, here and there, writing about the need for changing flows direction within organization : switching from a “pushed” to a “pull” way of producting and communicating. The purpose is to make it possible for people to determine their action according to a goal rather than to an order.
Why is that so important ?
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The organizational double flip

February 25th, 2009 · View Comments · Organization & Management

If we try to summarize in two points the challenges businesses will have to face very soon, I’d say “from push to pull” and “from local to global”. It looks like a double flip for companies but it’s not that far from reality.
• From push to pull : employees have to make more and more [...]

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