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Enterprise 2.0 : individuals first, communities second

Summary : it's more than difficult to make people participate into social or participative activities that are trying to emerge all around the organization, despite of the obvious benefits for both them and the collective. Two reasons to that. First is the benefit of participation car be immediate for someone in the community while it may take time for the giver to get anything in return. Second is people are entangled in day-to-day execution and coordination issues that give them few time, energy and attention to focus on anything...

Enterprise 2.0 : individuals first, communities second

Summary : it's more than difficult to make people participate into social or participative activities that are trying to emerge all around the organization,...

Sharing is not delivering

Summary : one of the most counterproductive usage of email is upward delegation. A polite way to say "passing the monkey to a colleague"....

The death of serendipity ?

Summary : Serendipity is  finding things without knowing they exist and without looking for them. On the web this phenomenon is embodies by the...

Should organizations limit collaboration ?

Summary :with the coming of social media in the workplace, organizations began to dream of a spontaneous self-driven collaboration that would get rid of...

Grasp all, lose all : when “liking” is too easy to be true

Either internal or external, social media approaches rely on some well-known principles. Among them are serendipity and wisdom of crowd. Both these principles rely...

Collaboration may happen by luck : how to provide valuable information without purpose

You must have already heard about serendipity, the effect by which one accidentally discovers something fortunate, especially while looking for something else entirely. This...

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....

From repetition to differenciation

Companies find hard to adopt the "2.0" attitude, just because it targets an unexploited field of the organization. Since novelty applies to an...