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An organization that is inconsistent with the way we work. Irritant #6 of the employee experience

When you want to know who does what in a company, there is a very simple way: look at its organization chart. It explains in a precise way what is the function of each person, who does what, who works with whom. Impossible to be any clearer, more transparent, and therefore efficient. As we have seen, in our daily lives it is totally the opposite: there are people who have requests, needs, questions, people who do and act alone or by coordinating with each other or putting people who did...

Network or proximity ? Where’s the value for businesses ?

Social networks seem to be used to fit nearly any case, regardless to the fact their value come from the context. As an example,...

The power of decentralized crisis management : the Gustav case

Crisis is charaterized by its suddenty, its unpredictability and the gravity of its possible consequences. It forces organization to react quickly in order to...

Toyota : a good example of SOO that reduces business risk

First a quick summary of the Service Oriented Organization concept (SOO) : it's about giving employees the ability (ie tools and organization model) that...

Serendipity doesn’t preclude control : a few rules to manage fate within informal networks

Everyone is conscious of informals networks' power within an organization. But their informal nature causes of lot of (sometimes) legitimate fears because seen uncontrolable....