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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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Entries Tagged as 'sharing'

What makes the value of shared information ?

September 18th, 2009 · View Comments · Information / knowledge management, Organization & Management, information

As I often say, we often complain about software while the problem is the way we use it. It’s the reason why many people consider that the largest part of spam they receive at word comes from their colleagues, their hierarchy.
That’s why I liked this Dilbert strip about information sharing. We can also conclude that [...]

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Are contents social by nature or by need ?

August 18th, 2009 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, enterprise 2.0, social computing

Web 2.0, aka “social web” and its corporate avatar known as enterprise 2.0 were built upon the following assumption : within a given groupe, information should be shared and discussions should be public because no one knows who may improve the work of another person, to bring a solution. So it’s more effieient letting people  [...]

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Survey on the use of IT in french companies

February 20th, 2009 · View Comments · Human resources, IT, Intranets & collaborative tools, social computing

Two weeks ago I was invited by Microsoft to attend the presentation of a survey on the use of IT in fench companies. Two things made it really interesting
• Although the fact new generations were transforming the use of IT, there was no global study to quantify and qualify it.
• The methodology was neutral and [...]

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Collaboration may happen by luck : how to provide valuable information without purpose

September 9th, 2008 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Communication, Information / knowledge management, Intranets & collaborative tools, information, social computing

You must have already heard about serendipity, the effect by which one accidentally discovers something fortunate, especially while looking for something else entirely. This is the best way to gout out of the common path instead of recycling the same ideas again and again, which often leads to the same overused solutions. But in  order [...]

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