Collaboration tools have invaded our computers and our daily lives with the promise of transforming the way we work and increasing our productivity, because it's a well-known fact that better collaboration means greater efficiency.
But isn't there a misuse of language in this area that is misleading us?
In French, we usually say “collaborative...
We've never been so well-equipped to collaborate and be more productive, but the numbers don't bear this out.
It's well known that collaboration is more a matter of practices than tools, but businesses seem to persist in believing that technology is self-sustaining.
But nothing can be done: tools are piled on top of...
For a long time I've been convinced that technology would help us to work better, both individually and collectively, and it's not for nothing that the historical theme of this blog has been collaboration.
When I look at digital workplaces, where there are almost as many tools as there are needs , I can't help...
We don't realize enough the progress that has been made over the last 20 years in terms of collaboration tools, with a clear acceleration over the last 10 years.
Users will always complain about the limitations of this or that collaboration suite deployed in their company, and rightly so, but...
Meta (formerly Facebook) has announced the end of Workplace, its enterprise social network launched in 2016 to compete with Microsoft Teams and Slack. I've seen a lot of reactions to this announcement, particularly regrets about the fact that collaborating has never been so important, and that it reflects the...
In a previous post I discussed the need to give a quantified, tangible form to the flows of work in order to understand what people really do, which is a prerequisite if we want to help them work better.
This was impossible a few years ago, but today we have...
Since I have been working there has not been a time when I have not heard that we should put people at the center. And given that the subject already existed before and still exists today, it seems that we haven't really got there yet.
What does it mean to...
The digital workplace has been marketed as a lever for organizational performance for so long that it is taken for granted. But on closer inspection, this is not always the case and it can even be the opposite.
As you may have noticed, I have been wondering about the work...
If you were fed up with "The Big Resignation" and are still wondering what to do with "Quiet Quitting" you are not out of the woods yet because here comes your new source of headaches: "Quiet Constraint".
Quiet Constraint: the new pernicious effect of remote working
First of all, what is...
There is a lot of talk about digital illiteracy when talking about people who, because they do not know how to use digital tools, are increasingly handicapped in a society where the acts of daily life are becoming more and more digital. But with the exception measures linked to...
