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A socialnomics Manifesto

October 12th, 2009 · View Comments · Communication, Ideas & innovation management, Organization & Management, Social Networking, social computing

I rencently mentioned the word “socialnomics“. Whatt’s the interest ? In an interconnected world (not only by the net…a world were everything can impact everything, it’s essential to understand the context to define the systems (enterprise, project, organization, management) we have to implement. So let’s try to summarize things.
- the world is full of stakeholders. [...]

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External social networks are not only for marketing purposes

January 21st, 2009 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Communication, Communities, Organization & Management, project management

Generally, when I talk about social networks for other people than employees, I’m answered “ah ? I thought you were not interested in all these marketing things”. This is the obvious proof that, for many people and many companies, when you aim at an external audiance it’s for communication and sale purpose, following a one [...]

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Enterprises far beyond enterprise 2.0

January 20th, 2009 · View Comments · Collaborative practices, Human resources, Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management, Social Networking, enterprise 2.0, strategy

A few weeks ago I amused myself proposing a few tracks on what enterprise 2.0 may be in 2009. But I think pushing the reflection beyond would be worth : enterprise 2.0 is only a side of a much complex reality that is enterprise and will be of any use only in a global framework. [...]

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Web 2.0 tools to improve information readiness

November 28th, 2008 · View Comments · Ideas & innovation management, enterprise 2.0, information, knowledge-economy, social computing

Today, many opinions converge to admit two things :
• companies need to be more and and more reactive in order to run their traditionnal activities in a more and more complexe context, where foreseeability is very uncertain and where sharp competences and complex competences assembling are needed in a short range of time. Something like [...]

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CIOs don’t care about web 2.0 ? Neither illogical nor grave

October 5th, 2008 · View Comments · IT, Organization & Management, social computing

A recent Robert Helf survey tells us CTOs seem not to consider web 2.0 as a priority in their projects. I don’t find this worrying because it’s logical due to the very nature of those tools.
It’s now an established fact that the “web 2.0 question” is very present at companies’ heads. In terms of tools [...]

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Organizing for value

July 19th, 2008 · View Comments · Organization & Management, strategy

One more interesting report at McKinsey’s : this one is titled : “Organizing for value“. You will learn that
- the traditional divisional structure is not relevant to create value
- companies will have to fav our long term value creation instead of focusing on achieving short terms objectives.
- in order to  do that they’ll have to [...]

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Interesting Report on IT depts role in value creation

July 16th, 2008 · View Comments · IT, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0

The CIGREF (french big companies CIO club) issued and interesting report co-writen with McKinsey. Although it’s writen in French, [ now availabe in english] I would like to share some points with you. And, if ever you know someone who can make a quick translation for you I think it’s really worht.
- IT doesn’t impact [...]

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