Does enterprise IT need macro generators ?

marketstrat

In short :despite of noticeable efforts, corporate IT is still very siloed what restrains collaborative and social practices that often need double entry and involve task redundancies. Macro generators like IFTTT try to tackle this issue in the consumer web and may become worthy enterprise solutions in the future. The enterprise IT is getting every [...]

Are we challenging the right silos ?

SocialBusiness

Summary : silos are a well known harm enterprises are trying to get rid of. But, in organizations that need to be deeply connected to markets and customers, where problem solving and exception handling are becoming employee’s day to day work, what is the level of collaboration between IT, HR and marketing ? If, at [...]

Teambuilding and breaking silos only take post-its

Summary : strengthening ties between employees, increasing the membership feeling, learning to collaborate out of silos are challenges organizations try to meet with limited success and at a quite high cost. But, sometimes, things happen by themselves. Lots of parisian workers made the most of the summer decreasing business activity to compete on frescos made [...]

Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed…but not luckily

SocialBusiness

Summary : there’s a missing link in the enterprise 2.0 discourse that does not reassure organizations. They’re being asked an impressive effort to generate information, connect people, they’re being told all the benefits they can draw from that but are not explaine the mechanism that will turn this information potential into tangible results. The fact [...]