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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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Are you “on demand” or “when we can” ? Enterprise 2.0 and the customer perspective

November 19th, 2009 · View Comments · Recommended Bookmarks

What does social software bring ? Nothing by itself (contrary to many others, a social app doesn’t process or treat anything but allow people to do things…) but since it makes some things more easy to do it should, in principle, help to improve performance and productivity for many kind of tasks provided people understand [...]

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The three dimensions of enterprise 2.0

June 16th, 2009 · View Comments · Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing

There are many discussions on what enterprise 2.0 is, what it implies. There are many different visions, depending on each one’s interests. From one extreme to the other we start from an utilitarian vision (providing with new tools)  to end with a cultural big bang (new philosophy of organization and economics, new human-centric values). One [...]

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Enterprise 2.0 as a part of the Global Enterprise

May 12th, 2009 · View Comments · HR & Management 2.0, Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0

Many questioning about enterprise 2.0 these last weeks. How to make it work, how help companies to understand it, how to calculate the ROI ? So many questions that, at the end, can be summed up in only one : undestranding how these new logics can integrate into the existing and add to it. Without [...]

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Enterprise 2.0 (finally) moves toward Enterprise

April 14th, 2009 · View Comments · Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0

An interesting and  salutary move is being iniated in the small world of both web and enterprise 2.0. It’s about what I would call a “de-technologization” of the concept and, according to me, will take back enterprise 2.0 to a ground it should not have left : the enterprise as a productive organization that must [...]

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Measuring a system is more relevant than Enterprise 2.0 tools ROI

April 7th, 2009 · View Comments · Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0, social computing

Before, everything was simple. When people were asking “what’s the ROI”, the answer was “today you are processing this kind of operations with 100 people working with a calculator and a clipboard, it takes one week and the risk of making errors is obvious. With our solution, it takes only one person to enter the [...]

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Management 2.0, SOO and productivity

March 26th, 2009 · View Comments · HR & Management 2.0, Organization & Management

I started, here and there, writing about the need for changing flows direction within organization : switching from a “pushed” to a “pull” way of producting and communicating. The purpose is to make it possible for people to determine their action according to a goal rather than to an order.
Why is that so important ?
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The organizational double flip

February 25th, 2009 · View Comments · Organization & Management

If we try to summarize in two points the challenges businesses will have to face very soon, I’d say “from push to pull” and “from local to global”. It looks like a double flip for companies but it’s not that far from reality.
• From push to pull : employees have to make more and more [...]

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Is there a 2.0 way to draw an org-chart ?

February 11th, 2009 · View Comments · Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0, project management

When talking about enterprise 2.0, something we offer hear is “sounds interesting but our company is not designed to work this way”. Understand : we decide to do something and we “push” it, don’t even think of allowing a bottom-up flow to exist in this context. Of course, that causes gaps, the company isn’t able [...]

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Can enterprises organize themselves as markets

January 17th, 2009 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Information / knowledge management, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0, knowledge-economy, social computing

What’s a market ? It’s a place when offer meets demand.
Companies love markets because it’s the more efficient way to find outlets for their products and identify suppliers. It’s a competitiveness factor because of the outlets it provides and the optimization of costs that competition makes possible.
The “social” web is a market somehow. Contents can [...]

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Must companies stop trying to organize cross-organization work ? The Nortel Case

December 23rd, 2008 · View Comments · Human resources, Organization & Management

Nortel announced they were going to give up their complex matrix organization to focus on their business units. The purpse is to act faster, making decisions as close as possible to the market. Making decision close to the marketin reminds me of either SOO or subsidarity at a time when but is it a pure [...]

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