Recruiting Digital Natives make companies ask lots of questions. Some of their concerns are not justfied, and we can also read many nonsenses.
“They have their habits, their own way to do things, with their own tools…we only have to adopt those tools to seduce them”. Wrong ! They don’t juge by appearances (or as we [...]
Entries Tagged as 'y-generation'
Tools won’t seduce digital natives. Culture will.
April 16th, 2008 · View Comments · Human resources, recruitment
Tags: alignment·corporate culture·digital-natives·recruitment·social computing·social-software·web-2.0·y-generation
Switching from work to partnership
March 14th, 2008 · View Comments · Human resources, Recommended Bookmarks, enterprise 2.0
Many people try to guess how enterprises will look like in the future. I’m afraid no one can answer thins question. In the other hand there are trends we can’t ignore : in the same way baby boomers dramatically transformed the companies they joined, digital natives will dot the same with our companies.
But prudence is [...]
Tags: cooperation·digital-natives·Human resources·organization·partnership·work time·y-generation
Management 2.0 is emerging. But what about managers 2.0 ?
March 3rd, 2008 · View Comments · HR & Management 2.0, enterprise 2.0
This topic was was my baseline at the beginning of this blog but I deserted it for a simple reason : I wrote a lot about how enterprises were supposed to work and, once done, holding on it endlessy was useless. The next step is to think about how to make it possible, by validating [...]
Tags: digital-natives·enterpise 2.0·management·management-2.0·y-generation
What is a knowledgeworker 2.0 ?
February 25th, 2008 · View Comments · HR & Management 2.0, enterprise 2.0
I think there’s a kind of poeople which counts, today, much more than digital natives because they are already within the organization and sometimes are a part of top management. They are not far from knowledgeworkers 1.0 who have been there for ages, but they use the same tools as the next generation. They are [...]
Tags: digital-natives·enterprise 2.0·knowledgeworkers·knowledgeworkers 2.0·y-generation
From repetition to differenciation
February 19th, 2008 · View Comments · Intranets & collaborative tools, Organization & Management, enterprise 2.0, social computing
Companies find hard to adopt the “2.0″ attitude, just because it targets an unexploited field of the organization. Since novelty applies to an unexploited domain, why trying to understand it since we don’t use it. Saying that, the question is more about sensibilizing companies about exploring new performance and knowledge fields in order [...]
Tags: competitive-advantage·corporate brand·digital-natives·enterprise 2.0·erp·intranet·intranet-2.0·management·process·serendipity·social computing·social media·y-generation
Are you smarter than a ten years old kid ?
December 6th, 2007 · View Comments · Social Networking, social computing
This is the proof inspiration can be find in a stupid TV show…I think you may have the same show abroad…whatever the name is. Here is my own version..
Take a teenager and an adult..
Put them in a room with a computer, a phone and a library containing the “basic knowlegde” everyone may access.
Ask them :
- [...]
Tags: digital-natives·social computing·Social Networking·y-generation
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