I can’t remember the definition of an enterprise I was taught when I was at school… too complicated and abstract. I One thing is sure : the focus was always on the structural side, the economic and legal entity. This entity-oriented vision lead people to build wall around the enterprise, in order to protect it, [...]
Entries Tagged as 'shirky'
Do we still know what an enterprise is ?
August 7th, 2008 · View Comments · Organization & Management
Tags: enteprise·organization·shirky
Where do they find time to participate ?
May 23rd, 2008 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Intranets & collaborative tools, knowledge-economy, social computing
In a former post, I mentioned Clay Shirky’s “Here comes everybody”.
One big question about everything people do outside the organization is “where do they find time to do that”. I have the answer for my ow case, but I recommend you to listen to Shirky’s opinion.
Now let’s apply this thought process to all the wasted [...]
Tags: collaboration·shirky·social computing·social media·time management
Can we organize without organization ?
April 27th, 2008 · View Comments · Organization & Management
In a previous post I was wondering if we were heading to what I called a project or a partnership economy. In the same way, after meeting Don Tapscott and read “Wikinomics”, the idea came to me that we could soon experience a reverse application of Coase’s theorem. Nothing but logical : if high transaction [...]
Tags: coase·externalization·hierarchy·intrapreneurship·organization·partnership·shirky·transaction costs
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