One day we can read that using Facebook at work increases productivity by 9%. The day after we ear that it decreases by 1,5%. Depending on people’s interest, sometimes a liberal attitude is promoted, sometimes a total ban, sometimes an internal placebo made of home-mades facebook-likes intranet. This is only my own opinion but I’d [...]
Entries Tagged as 'time management'
Stop saying nonsenses about Facebook and productivity
September 3rd, 2009 · View Comments · Human resources, IT, Organization & Management, Social Networking
Tags: facebook·Human resources·management·productivity·social networks·time·time management
Productivity : this elusive graal
January 15th, 2009 · View Comments · Human resources, Organization & Management, knowledge-economy
A few weeks ago I threw a bottle in the sea on the productivity question, a graal everyone’s looking for without really getting it. I had a lot of answers on my french blog which inspires me to write this synthesis.
I was sure there will be a lot of discussions but I didn’t think there [...]
Wasting time is not a matter of tools
October 2nd, 2008 · View Comments · Human resources, Organization & Management, Social Networking, social computing
On of the main issues about social software introduction within companies is that it would make people waste time. In order to answer this question, we have to understand the underlying concerns.
Because the suggested way of working doesn’t need many discussions : in the current context, people are more efficient in a network rather than [...]
Tags: engagement·internet·motivation·social computing·social networks·time·time management·work time
Can we identify good managers by the way their team uses the net ?
October 1st, 2008 · View Comments · Human resources, Information / knowledge management, Organization & Management, information, knowledge-economy
A very common discourse within companies is : “our people waste their time on social networks and, more globally, on the web. We have to restrict access to it”.
If, when talking about social networks, it depends on the way people use them, so its important to grant access to what useful for business, I find [...]
Tags: business intelligence·control·internet·knowledge-economy·knowledgeworkers·management·productivity·security·social networks·time·time management·trust
To understand enterprise 2.0 companies should learn from theory of constraints
August 21st, 2008 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing
It’s funny to see how history seems to be endlessly repeating, how issues that have been fixed years ago are coming back to the surface.
Because the question of productivity, time management, ROI in an enterprise 2.0 or in a Service Oriented Organization remembers me of something that already took place years ago (and was fixed) [...]
Tags: agile methods·costs·enterprise 2.0·goal·goldratt·knowledge-economy·management·optimization·organization·productivity·soo·theory of constraints·throughput·time management·toc
Are companies optimizing response time or only maximizing workload ?
July 12th, 2008 · View Comments · Information / knowledge management, Organization & Management, information
Time is key to performance. It’s a well known fact. But while industrial companies have been taking it into account for ages, inventing just in time, it seems that non industrial companies have still some things to learn.
Of course, everybody wll tell me that time is a priority. And everything is done in order employees [...]
Tags: knowledge-management·mckinsey·productivity·response time·time management·workload
Where do they find time to participate ?
May 23rd, 2008 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Intranets & collaborative tools, knowledge-economy, social computing
In a former post, I mentioned Clay Shirky’s “Here comes everybody”.
One big question about everything people do outside the organization is “where do they find time to do that”. I have the answer for my ow case, but I recommend you to listen to Shirky’s opinion.
Now let’s apply this thought process to all the wasted [...]
Tags: collaboration·shirky·social computing·social media·time management
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