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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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10 things I believe about the ROI of Enterprise 2.0

July 28th, 2009 · View Comments · Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing

The “ROI” question is still very discussed even if it irritates many people and is used as a pretext for many things. Here are 10 things I believe (right now, at the moment I’m writing…) on the subject. These are only personal beliefs and are subject to change once I find more relevant ones..
1°) This [...]

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Can enterprises organize themselves as markets

January 17th, 2009 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Information / knowledge management, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0, knowledge-economy, social computing

What’s a market ? It’s a place when offer meets demand.
Companies love markets because it’s the more efficient way to find outlets for their products and identify suppliers. It’s a competitiveness factor because of the outlets it provides and the optimization of costs that competition makes possible.
The “social” web is a market somehow. Contents can [...]

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Do enterprises really outsource the right things ?

August 28th, 2008 · View Comments · Human resources, Information / knowledge management, Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management, knowledge-economy

Some of my reflections point to the slow but unavoidable outsourcing of the human side of the enterprise.
First because of organization models and systems that allow companies to focus on their core business : identifying key issues and needs, they can concentrate on elaboring a stragegy to respond…and let others do the rest. The rest, [...]

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Can we organize without organization ?

April 27th, 2008 · View Comments · Organization & Management

In a previous post I was wondering if we were heading to what I called a project or a partnership economy. In the same way, after meeting Don Tapscott and read “Wikinomics”, the idea came to me that we could soon experience a reverse application of Coase’s theorem. Nothing but logical : if high transaction [...]

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Enterprise 2.0 : the last step before the project economy ?

April 15th, 2008 · View Comments · Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0

A few months ago I wondered if we were on the road to an externalisazion of enterprise’s non structuring function, which may paradoxally put value creation outside the enterprise. In this situation the enterprise’s only job would be to manage outsiders according to its needs. I don’t say it’s a good or a bad thing, [...]

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