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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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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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Talking with Michel Hervé about turning the pyramid upside down

March 24th, 2008 · View Comments · Communication, Communities, Organization & Management

You problably don’t know Michel Hervé and that’s a pity since thy guy is really worth being exported. This entrepreneur is well known for his book “from the pyramid to the networks”  (unfortunately only available in french) that describes the way he run his business, has he says, in a participative and democrat way.  Something [...]

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