CIOs told to be more business oriented
Summary : technology is not the property of the IT department anymore and CIOs must move from being the keeper of the flame to being a service provider for business lines and customers. With new stakes and obligations that makes his usual paradigm fly into pieces. IT is the...
Email is not bad for productivity only
Summary : email causing organizational unwieldiness and information loss is nothing new. Businesses like ATOS decided to fix this issue once for all, using means which effectiveness will need years to be assessed. But the email case has another side that's less mentioned : the impact on wellbeing and...
From noise to situational intelligence
Sumary : many users say that the problem that enterprise social platforms is the risk of infobesity and informational noise. Reality is more complex. As for infobesity, these platformes only collect information and have few impact on the fact people and systems generate more. The problem is more about...
Information leaks on social networks : that’s not the problem
Summary : businesses see social networks as possible channels for information leaks caused by negligence. What is right. But their retort, that is mainly technological, does not solve anything because social networks are only one of the many channels that can make risks become true, not the cause of...
Enterprise 2.0 and social business : what to expect in 2012 ?
Résumé : what will be the enterprise 2.0 / social business in 2012 ? It will highly depends on choices organizations will make to deal with the paradox of finding ways to go out of the crisis while not having much money to invest. 2012 will certainly be the...
Tomorrow’s businesses need strong processes and deep automation
Summary:Tomorrow's business will give people and their peculiar skills a good deal to increase overall performance. Creativity, problem solving, exception handling...everything that has nothing to do with processes and automation. But if excellence is not reached on these points if will be difficult to develop knowledge work and even...
Signals instead of conversations ?
Summary : Â enterprises will have to enter the world of conversations. Everything will become conversations between enterprises, employees and customers. Such a concept, when not introduced the right way, is scary for lots of businesses because it overlooks the need to make conversations actionable. Most of all, employees are...
The other debt organizations may die of : the trust one
Summary : trust  is the fuel that will power new forms of work and management and make change possible. But trust can't be mandated and has to we won over time. In fact, it's being lost, day after day, for decades by actions that look anecdotical for organizations but are...
New White Paper on Enterprise 2.0
I'm happy to announce the release of a new white paper on enterprise 2.0. In fact irt's not that new. Last year, my fellow member Anthony Poncier gathered most of the more relevant french enterprise 2.0 practitioners to write a white paper, each one being in charge of a...
Google + : an enterprise tool ?
Summary : Can Google Plus become a major player in the enterprise software field ? It will depend on its positioning and the efforts Google will make to understand a field where things have always been difficult for them. Google Plus is not a social networking platform but brings...