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We've been hearing for years that tomorrow all companies will be technology companies. This is perfectly put by Jeff Immelt, GE's CEO : "If you went to bed last night as an industrial company, you're...

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New generations, Y,Z and what will come after are still the source of passionate debates even is some of their members are not that "new" anymore and are making their way in their company....

Is the learning of code by everyone what will - as we often read - make businesses successful in the digital economy ? Will it be a necessary skill for the future (and event...

Will the massive arrival of robots in our private and professional lives mean more dehumanized lives ? Should we expect a legitimate mistrust movement about this change ? These are legitimate questions in a world...

Is technology the answer to all our problems or is it an easy way to shrug off our responsibilities and capacities of judgement and decision in face of a manufactured idol ? Are Silicon...

The rise of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) is said prefiguring the future of leaning. Accessible by all, wherever people are, they are the response to today's need and most of all meet the...

If there's a competence and attitude anyone should develop because it has become critical to survive in the era of the web and social media, it's critical thinking. How many Hoax do circulate, even...

Summary : Enterprise 2.0 or social business initiatives aim at crafting organizations that fit what we call the knowledge economy. And that's quite hard...for one reason. The knowledge economy does not exist. Knowledge work...

Summary : Beyond enterprise 2.0 and social business, there's a major change in value creation models. Unfortunately, in  these models that are still in preparation, it's hard to determine causal relationships between participation in...

Résumé :despite enterprises know they need to change the way they work, they make very slow progress at undertaking a deep change process. The unwieldiness ot their organizational structure is not the only reason...

While attending the last  Enterprise 2.0 Forum in Milan, I had the pleasure to see Mark Masterson again and have an interesting talk during a cofee break He was telling me he heard something very...

The debate on the ROI of Enterprise 2.0 is far from its end even if I often have the impression that avoiding the question is a common easy answer. Either the "we don't care"...

This is the nth update of a famous series I've already blogged the previous pieces before. No need to add anything. (Found thanks to Luis Suarez). I'm still curious to know how "common people" react...

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...

Digital divide used to be and still is a real concern in our industrialized countries. Maybe we should end talking about industrialized countries to say "computerized countries" what seems to be more relevant with...

One thing is sure : the "after the crisis world" will be very different from what it was before. It may seem obvious, but if we have a closer look at what happened in...

Personal Branding is a very fashionable topic today. More than that, it's a deep trend that is overdiscussed because of its yougness. A day will come that it will be so obvious that no-one...

In my "web and society" series, I can't prevent from saying a few words about the tab keeping theory which is put forward by many people as we leave many traces on the web. Assumption...

This blog post by Jon Husband and the  article from the Guardian it menstions takes me to wonder about the presumed impact of the net and its use on kids. People worry about the time...