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Businesses invest in technology, not in work

"We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us". Marshall McLuhan For twenty years, digital transformation has been a given. Every business has engaged with it, with the conviction that technology would streamline, accelerate, and modernize. In fact, tools have piled up and workflows have been automated, without always delivering the desired results. Behind this constant acceleration, a criticism is becoming increasingly common, namely that organizations are investing heavily in technology but much less in how people work with it. At an event I was invited to earlier this year, I met...

Businesses invest in technology, not in work

"We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us". Marshall McLuhan For twenty years, digital transformation has been a given. Every business has engaged...

The intranet is dead, long live the intranet? A look back at the Arctus 2025 study

Every year, Arctus' Intranet Observatory provides an overview of the state of internal digital technology in French organizations. The 2025 edition confirms that the intranet remains a...

The rise and fall of enterprise social networks

In the mid-2000s, businesses believed they had found the solution to a chronic problem: lack of collaboration, silo mentality, difficulty sharing information, inability to...

Chat has replaced email, and it’s even worse

For years, email was considered the scourge of business collaboration. Too many messages, endless discussion threads, a disastrous signal-to-noise ratio. And I was certainly not the...

Is creating documents really work?

The promise of the digital workplace is that it will be the single place where our working lives take place: where we work, collaborate,...

10 ways to screw up your digital workplace

With its promise of modernity, fluid collaboration and increased productivity, the digital workplace is seen as the grail of internal digital transformation for organizations. In...