Slack is often presented as an iconic start-up in modern collaborative working. A software program adopted by the most agile businesses, it emerged as a direct response to email overload and the complexity of distributed work. A dazzling success story, from Silicon Valley to Wall Street, culminating in a record acquisition by Salesforce in 2021 (What about Salesforce’s acquisition of Slack?).
But as is often the case, reality does not resemble the success story we imagine. Less linear, but certainly more instructive. We are talking about a resounding failure, that of a video game as...
Everyone is conscious of informals networks' power within an organization. But their informal nature causes of lot of (sometimes) legitimate fears because seen uncontrolable....
When talking about innovation there's many things people objectively agree. Objectively only, become for some it's still hard to put into action what they...
I fully agree with Don Tapscott's wikinomy concept. We're not talking about the massive use of wikis but about the mass collaboration phenomenon.
The fact...
As usual it comes from McKinsey and can be downloaded here.
It's about distributed innovation, transforming information into business, taking benefits from human interaction, turning...
After having published some studies about the "soft ROI" of organizational performance and informal networks, McKinsey brought out something very interesting about the need...