In the comments following this great piece by Hutch Carpenter about 2010 trends, someone relevantly drawn our attention on the importance of integration. I agree and would like to sum up some ideas about all the integration challenges which are much wider than we can usually think.
Notice : when talking about integration we usually think [...]
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The factory, the beach and the Bermuda Triangle. Or the challenges of integration
January 21st, 2010 · View Comments · IT, Organization & Management, social computing
Tags: activity-specific social software·alignment·behaviors·collaboration·Communication·enterprise-social-software·governance·hosting·IT·saas·sense·social sofwtare·social-software
Is Saas the future of your corporate IT ?
September 25th, 2009 · View Comments · IT, social computing
This is one more question that haunts many people’s night. More serioulsy, if it doesn’t make people stay awakened all nights long, it creates debates and brings some confusion that doesn’t help businesses to move forward. As a matter of fact deploying any solution is not that easy when one still have many infrastructure related [...]
Tags: cloud computing·costs·hosting·IT·private cloud·saas·security·software
Does enterprise 2.0 threaten your security ?
August 25th, 2009 · View Comments · IT, enterprise 2.0, social computing
Among the many questions businesses have about enterprise 2.0, this one has an important place. Not because enterprise 2.0 is necessarily dangerous but because any new thing brings a change in a situation that’s supposed to be secured. So the principle of precaution plays its part in organization where risk aversion is more important than [...]
Tags: enterprise 2.0·google·privacy·saas·security·social media·social-software·twitter
The future of cloud computing is not necessarily outside the firewall
February 13th, 2009 · View Comments · IT, Intranets & collaborative tools
Discussing wheter companies have to keep their information systemes within their walls or host it, wholly or partly, outside is a central issue.
The Saas or “cloud computing” logic majes sens. The time has come to take away the sacred aura of what, as Nicholas Carrs wrote in The Big Switch, is becoming as banal as [...]
Do enterprises really outsource the right things ?
August 28th, 2008 · View Comments · Human resources, Information / knowledge management, Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management, knowledge-economy
Some of my reflections point to the slow but unavoidable outsourcing of the human side of the enterprise.
First because of organization models and systems that allow companies to focus on their core business : identifying key issues and needs, they can concentrate on elaboring a stragegy to respond…and let others do the rest. The rest, [...]
Tags: coase·costs·india·Innovation·knowledge-economy·knowledge-workers·KPO·outsourcing·saas·transaction costs
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). [...]
Tags: project management·saas
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