Multitasking is a big issue for both people and organization. It’s the (presumed and made essential) ability for someone to do many things at the same time. The social media phenomenon and the increasing number of information flows people are exposed to are making this concern more and more central.
I’m afraid that, behing th multitasking [...]
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Is multitasking dangerous or a myth ?
January 23rd, 2009 · View Comments · Communication, Information / knowledge management, Organization & Management, social computing
Tags: Communication·enterprise-social-software·flows·information·knowledge·marketplaces·multitasking·productivity·social media·social-software·software·supply chain
Web workers between the devil and the deep blue sea
December 26th, 2008 · View Comments · Communication, Human resources, IT, Organization & Management
The Pew Research Center issued an interesting report titled Networked Workers that proposes a analysis of the state of web workers in the US. By web workers we have to understand people who use internet in their day to day job, including email. qui dresse un état des lieux des travailleurs du web aux Etats-Unis. [...]
Tags: culture·efficiency·Human resources·information·management·PEW·productivity·stress·supply chain·web·web-2.0
I’m more productive when I get rid of the tools I use
December 22nd, 2008 · View Comments · IT, Information / knowledge management, Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management
After a long reflection I realized that the tools I use were the cause of a high level improductivity. And that the others gives me incredible services.
Try to pay attention to this in the upcomming days. Try to take some distance on your own experience, listen to your colleagues, you friends, and I’m sure you’ll [...]
Tags: ergonomy·flows·information·knowledge-workers·productivity·software·supply chain
Information flows needs a plumber
September 23rd, 2008 · View Comments · Communication, IT, Intranets & collaborative tools, enterprise 2.0, information, social computing
Information overload has thress main causes : the first is information dispersal among too many tools which force people to continuously switch from one to another in order to be sure not miss anything, the second is the fact people are affected by the information flow that fall on them as is they were at [...]
Tags: conferences·email·enterprise 2.0·information·information systems·marketplaces·rass·supply chain·w2e_europe08·web 2.0 expo·web-2.0
The day when employees will find answers instead of waiting for them to come
September 5th, 2008 · View Comments · Information / knowledge management, Organization & Management, knowledge-economy
I just found interesting numbers on the fact french employees don’t have an intensive use of internet at work[fr]. Although, in countries where employees use it more “it has been the source of a notable part of productivity improvements since the mid 90’s”.
I share the author’s analysis : either while our studies or at work, [...]
Tags: eduction·knowledge-economy·learning·management·problem solving·supply chain
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 [...]
Tags: balanced scorecard·best practices·bsc·competences·enterprise 2.0·HCM·Human resources·human-capital·intangible assets·microlearning·peer to peer learning·strategy·strategy maps·supply chain·training
Managing information will soon be a key competence
April 5th, 2008 · View Comments · Information / knowledge management
Employees will have to learn how to built their own informational supply chain in order to improve their efficiency at work.
Tags: competences·datas processing·infobesity·information·informational culture·knowledge·supply chain
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