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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Is workload measurement the problem of the century ?

January 14th, 2010 · View Comments · HR & Management 2.0, IT, Organization & Management, social computing

Optimizing workload has always been a key concern for businesses and managers. A too heavy workload regarding to the capacity leads to explosion, a too low workload means resources are wasted. I don’t even mention last minute assignments to face imponderables. In brief, bad adjustments have an heavy price.
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Are you “on demand” or “when we can” ? Enterprise 2.0 and the customer perspective

November 19th, 2009 · View Comments · Recommended Bookmarks

What does social software bring ? Nothing by itself (contrary to many others, a social app doesn’t process or treat anything but allow people to do things…) but since it makes some things more easy to do it should, in principle, help to improve performance and productivity for many kind of tasks provided people understand [...]

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Real time web is not a cure-all (and twitter won’t kill blogs)

July 10th, 2009 · View Comments · Social Networking, social computing

We can hear that microblogging is killing blogging and that, globally speaking, the future of web is real time. An hasty discourse I don’t subscribe to. It does not seem to me that a trend is replacing another but that they are complementary.
This applies to the general public web but also to the corporate web.
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