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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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When does the value of a “social object” have to be measured ?

June 2nd, 2009 · View Comments · Information / knowledge management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing

Let’s be clear, I’m talking about value, not about ROI (although the one is a part of the other) and about “social objects” in the large sense of the word : everything that can exist on a social platform, when using social software. It may be a content, an information specially generated, an information shared [...]

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Social networks : are companies looking for the ROI or something else

January 29th, 2009 · View Comments · Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0

Whatever people may say, it’s still the hot issue of enterprise social networks. Considering ools that that are not processing tools strictly speaking, benefits have to be found on the new way of doing things they make possible rather than in the tools themselves that are only enablers. As I wrote here, benefits are not [...]

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Web 2.0 tools to improve information readiness

November 28th, 2008 · View Comments · Ideas & innovation management, enterprise 2.0, information, knowledge-economy, social computing

Today, many opinions converge to admit two things :
• companies need to be more and and more reactive in order to run their traditionnal activities in a more and more complexe context, where foreseeability is very uncertain and where sharp competences and complex competences assembling are needed in a short range of time. Something like [...]

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Web 2.0 : a more realistic systemic approach

October 7th, 2008 · View Comments · Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0, social computing

This could have passed unnoticed. In a post about Dell an the fact their online shop was more 2.0 than their ideagora Ideastorm, Tim O’Reilly made his definition of web 2.0 seriously evolve from the original one.
For your information, here his the “original” defintion as it can be found on wikipedia today.
Web 2.0 is the [...]

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The art of mistaking means for goals

July 24th, 2008 · View Comments · Communication, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0

I often worry when I see companies that mistakes means for goals. It’s a common issue on enterprise 2.0 : “put people into networks”, “share information”, “collaborate” are not goals, they are only means that help to achieve goals. Reduce the time of response, innovate more and quicker, devilver something that exactly meets client’s needs, [...]

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Interesting Report on IT depts role in value creation

July 16th, 2008 · View Comments · IT, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0

The CIGREF (french big companies CIO club) issued and interesting report co-writen with McKinsey. Although it’s writen in French, [ now availabe in english] I would like to share some points with you. And, if ever you know someone who can make a quick translation for you I think it’s really worht.
- IT doesn’t impact [...]

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Enterprise 2.0 can impact beyond intangible assets

July 1st, 2008 · View Comments · Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0, strategy

In some pevious posts we (quickly) saw how enterprise 2.0 can impact enterprise’s intangible assets, supporting the value creation process.
But, looking at the following diagram, we can also wonder if it’s possible to go further in this reflection.

According to me it’s obvious, mostly on the following issues :

Tags: balanced scorecard , Communities , e-marketing , [...]

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How Enterprise 2.0 can help managing and improving organizational capital to support strategy

June 25th, 2008 · View Comments · Ideas & innovation management, enterprise 2.0, strategy

This is the third (and last) post of the series about enterprise 2.0 and intangible assets. Why do “organization capital” ? It’s the ability to mobilize and support the change process that is needed to support strategy.
It’s made of four elements :
- culture : appropriation of the vision and key values needed to support strategy
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Developing and managing information capital to support strategy : can enterprise 2.0 help ?

June 19th, 2008 · View Comments · IT, Ideas & innovation management, enterprise 2.0, social computing, strategy

After some days “off” (too busy at work to take care of my blog), this is the second post of my series about how enterprise may support strategy. After human capital comes information capital.
It’s about assessing the availability of the information systems, networks and infrastructure which aee needed to support strategy.
A first sight the two [...]

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Enterprise 2.0 and Human Capital Management to support strategy

June 5th, 2008 · View Comments · Human resources, Information / knowledge management, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0, social computing, strategy

As we saw in a previous post, since human, information and organization capital support all the processes that create value, the question we have to answer is whether all these things we put in this “big bag” called enterprise 2.0 can help developing this pool of value. Or to make it clearer : in [...]

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