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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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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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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Satisfaction Vs. Engagement

January 12th, 2007 · View Comments · Organization & Management

I learned from an IPSOS study that’s focusing on employee’s satisfaction is unuseful, and that we’d better focus on their engagement instead. I won’t comment the whole document since you can find a good analysis here, but let me tell you a few conclusions I made.
I see some main topics :
- top-down culture is dead [...]

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