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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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Social Medias : being there, doing as usual, doing new things

February 9th, 2010 · View Comments · enterprise 2.0

Everyday we receive new numbers that show that an always increasing number of  people are “on” an increasing number of social networks, that such percentage of an age class is there, that such country is more represented than another or is slowly bridging the gap with the others etc…
Hence the unavoidable conclusion : almost everybody [...]

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7 web 2.0 words to use cautiously with real managers

November 25th, 2009 · View Comments · Communication, Communities, Recommended Bookmarks, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing

Even if enterprise 2.0 has its source in web 2.0, everybody now recognize that what we can see and use on the web needs to be tidied up to enter the workplace. One of the stumbling blocks can be found in language : sometimes even if two people agree on the content, the form can [...]

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A 15 yo consultant wrote a white paper about teenagers. And so what ?

July 23rd, 2009 · View Comments · Human resources, social computing, society

The case made much noise last week. A  15 years old consultant at Morgan Stanley produced a white paper on how young people of his generation uses medias. And all the world to swoon over the document, to such an extent it was propelled on the front page of the Financial Times website. I hastened [...]

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Too much governance leads to ungovernance

July 17th, 2009 · View Comments · IT, enterprise 2.0, social computing

IT governance is all the more strategic since it applies to the backbone of the business. As a matter of fact, it’s hard to be effective when the strategic line is unknown, when what’s allowed and what’s not is not well defined. Effective companies need well defined rules.
With the emergence of web 2.0, governance took [...]

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Why HR are really central to Enterprise 2.0

May 26th, 2009 · View Comments · Human resources, enterprise 2.0, social computing

Relationships between human resources and enterprise 2.0, or rather the use of social software”, are very complicated. Whatever the way you consider the issue, you always have to deal with HR.
There are two reasons to that :
The first is that many people came to take an interest in enterprise 2.0 because their primary issue was [...]

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No enterprise 2.0 without professionalizing web 2.0

March 3rd, 2009 · View Comments · Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, social computing

One of the most common barriers to enterprise 2.0 is web 2.0 itself. Many decision makers, when they start their benchmark, logically look at what happens on the web. Some rely on their own experience, some discover a world that’s really new to them, sometimes without understanding it.
This causes issues on two points of the [...]

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Transforming usages in enterprise 2.0

November 1st, 2008 · View Comments · Human resources, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0, social computing

Last week I was a part of a panel about “enterprise 2.0 : usages transformation”. Here are, in a few lines, what I retain from this event. Of course these are my own impression since when you’re on stage you tend to focus on people’s concerns rather than what the panelist said.
• How do companies [...]

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