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'
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
Efficiency, performance, constraints and things 2.0
April 16th, 2009 · View Comments · HR & Management 2.0, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0
We saw in a previous post that one of the best ways to improve performance was not to push to people to make impossible things but to get rid of the constraints that crub their performance. Once that said, if the vision is understandable by everyone (rather than trying to push something large in a [...]
Tags: behaviors·Communities·constraints·enterprise 2.0·Human resources·leadership·management·management-2.0·marketing·offer·performance·pressure·resources·sales·theory of constraints·time·trusts·unrefusable offer
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
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