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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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New report on the state of enterprise 2.0

March 11th, 2010 · View Comments · enterprise 2.0

Cécile Demailly had the kindness to send me the report she made about the state of enterprise 2.0, a report than can be purchased here. It relies on the responses of people from 50 large organizations, often international, and the fact 48% respondants are french gives a very interesting picture of the double context (local [...]

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Enterprise 2.0 adoption : you need both a voice and a screwdriver

December 24th, 2009 · View Comments · Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0

This is a sequel of my previous post related to enterprise 2.0 adoption, enriched by the many discussions and comments that followed. Here’s a synthesis of what emerged from that.
• There must be someone on the driver seat
As Oscar Berg pointed out, there must be someone in the driver’s seat. Seen from this angle, of [...]

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Does driving adoption mean being off the point ?

November 26th, 2009 · View Comments · Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0

I’ne never been that comfortable with the concept of adoption when applied to enterprise tools. More precisely when the point point was “driving adoption”.
Of course adoption is necessary. And, like every necessary thing, businesses can not afford not to drive it. Nothing but pure logic…but it can’t prevent me from feeling its sounds odd. I [...]

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10 questions to answer to succeed in an Enterprise 2.0 project

November 10th, 2009 · View Comments · Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing

It’s a common place to say that if you want to succeed there are things that have to be done. But, by focusing only on actions and forget thinking, the risk of doing hudge mistakes is obvious, that’s why so many opportunities are wasted. To succeed, you also need to have answers. Answers that allow [...]

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To build strong online social networks, better focus on your offline networks

October 29th, 2009 · View Comments · Communities, Human resources, Social Networking

Businesses begin to be more and more aware of social networks’ benefits. I’m, of course, talking about online social networks, a topic that’s been hot for several months. Talking about social networks for businesses often makes me think about two things :
- since the  network logic has been know and used by many professionals and [...]

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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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Who’s looking for a magik stick on the clouds only gets showers

October 16th, 2008 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing

Sometimes some of my readers, rather than letting a comment or leaving with their doubts, send me questions by email. And among the questions, one comes so often that it desserves a public answer.
Generaly the mail looks that that
“Dear Bertrand
I’m very interesting in all that’s being said about enteprise and web 2.0. As a matter [...]

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