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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Networking and collaboration : is enterprise a land of trust or distrust ?

February 11th, 2010 · View Comments · Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0

I recently wrote that it what obvious to me that for many people some activities and behaviors had to remain in their private sphere and, that social networking and everything that comes with is not a part of what they naturally want to transpose in the workplace. I also temperated my words saying that, of [...]

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What future for enterprise social networks ?

December 18th, 2009 · View Comments · IT, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing

Social networks are often the key part of every “2.0″ internal projects ? Why ? Because when the purspose is not to find people or informations anymore but to link people through information and information through people, that’s the essential link between tacit and informal knowledge, those who have it and those who need it.
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Real time web is not a cure-all (and twitter won’t kill blogs)

July 10th, 2009 · View Comments · Social Networking, social computing

We can hear that microblogging is killing blogging and that, globally speaking, the future of web is real time. An hasty discourse I don’t subscribe to. It does not seem to me that a trend is replacing another but that they are complementary.
This applies to the general public web but also to the corporate web.
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3 web 2.0 tools enterprises must consider

March 6th, 2009 · View Comments · Social Networking, social computing

I often touch on the need for professionaling web 2.0’s tools and usages in order to make them consistent in a corporate context. But we also have to keep in mind that there are some tools and usages that exist on the general public web that businesses haven’t considered yet and that they should bring [...]

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How to integrate innovation in your organization…with your IT dept.

February 17th, 2009 · View Comments · IT, Ideas & innovation management, Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing

I’coming back on an article titled “Teaming Up to Crack Innovation Enterprise Integration” and issued in the Harvard Business Review in last november. It has many interests : it’s about the vital problematic of innovation, it shows this so-called innovation can only be distributed and rely on sharing, it shows how such principles can be [...]

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BlueNity : a well conceived social network with a value for both clients and company

November 22nd, 2008 · View Comments · Communities, social computing

I was about to write some new posts about anti-crisis logics that could be 2.0 mind and practices driven but current affairs took me to spoil the charm of the topic, introducing BlueNity, the new Air France-KLM social network. Of course, this is not designed to be an anti-crisis weapon since de decision has to [...]

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Everything and its opposite about using social networks at the office

June 24th, 2008 · View Comments · Intranets & collaborative tools, Social Networking, social computing

This week again the squabble about “pro or against using social networks at work” delivered some new arguments. While CNN was telling us using social networks at work could bring some benefits, the Confederation of British Industry ways saying exactly the opposite, stating it makes companies loose billions.
What’s the truth, if there’s any ?

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Meeting Rex Lee : collaboration, problem solving and innovation on the programme

June 2nd, 2008 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Ideas & innovation management, Intranets & collaborative tools, social computing

I took advantage from my trip to attend Webcom Montreal to make a flying visit to Toronto. The main purpose was family but it was also the occasion to meet Rex Lee in person at his Toronto’s office. For those who don’t know him, he’s collaboration director at Bell Canada and, although less mediatized [...]

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Enterprise 2.0 is about strategy

May 17th, 2008 · View Comments · HR & Management 2.0, Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing

Social media within the enterprise suffers from being tools with mass appeal on the web. As a matter of fact, on the web everything relies on people’s will who let their needs drive their actions. One of the main drivers is pleasure and self satisfaction to join a group in order to do what we’re [...]

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Archimedes theorem applied to Enterprise 2.0..with trust instead of liquid

April 1st, 2008 · View Comments · Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing

I often say that even when change seems promising, it’s important to keep our feets on the ground and to go step by step. Excess often lead to another excess in the opposite direction and organizations rarely benefit from what seemed to be so promising.
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