After McKinsey, Pierre Audoin Consultants issues their report on the state on social collaboration in Europe. If also offers a comparative vision of how things are doing in France, England and Germany and provides a very sound analysis that matches with what practitioners actually see on the field. German and english are operational, french prefer [...]
In short : CEOs and corporate directors are aware of the importance of social media, of what’s at stake and even use these tools in their personal lives but that does not lead to a mainstream corporate use. A Stanford survey analyzes the gap and concludes that social media use is a systemic issue. There [...]
In short : the role of people in businesses and how to develop them and get the most out of them is a core concern for businesses. It’s impossible to manage people as they were processes anymore but, paradoxically, it implies businesses learn to manage processes as if they were people. We often read that [...]
In short : developing practices and behaviors to bring them online and favor technology adoption is only the visible part of the iceberg. Before all a “social intention” should be created, so we need to know what factors stimulate it. Social technologies are often shown as a means allowing to favor more efficient work practices. [...]
Summary : does the speed made possible by social technologies favor “fast thinking” to the detriment of “Deep Thinking”. In othet words, by going to fast and not deep enough, could collective intelligence system speed up stupidity. If the very nature of these tools makes the question relevant, the answer is elsewhere. If a business [...]
In brief : Social Business have known two eras until now : a first one where an autonomous adoption from users was expected, the second with business driven adoption strategies which was more meaningful in a work context. Now a third one is slowly emerging, consequence of the glass ceiling in which businesses crash into [...]
Summary : the challenge any businesse face is to find an efficient way to work while keeping it’s balance in a fast moving environment. I implies adaptability from the smallest part of the system, people, but also regulation mechanisms that will drive the behaviors of all its components toward a coherent collective action. Making people [...]
Summary : good intentions and passion are useful but not enough. More than individual initiatives happening on the fringe of the organizational model (and sometimes against it), businesses need to develop a really new of way of doing things. While the “enterprise 2.0″ or “social business” has been around for about seven years, where did [...]
Summary : deploying social business asks to work on many fronts at the same time but it’s clear that, beyond the usual “engagement-adoption” approach organizations lack something more structured allowing to visualize the main lignes of their plan and understand how they impact the reach of expected benefits. That would also be a good means [...]
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