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Employement : a (lost ?) war against the machine ?

Does the digital revolution create or destroy jobs ? If we consider the digital industry and how it grows in value there's no doubts it creates jobs. On the other hand, if look at the destroyed jobs in the "old economy" the balance is everything but positive. And the prospects are not promising. That makes many people wonder if, in terms of employment, the race against the machine is not a losing battle. That's the matter Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson dealt with in Race Against the Machine: How the...

Does the web really decrease transaction costs ?

Transaction costs are a common argument to justify the need to transform organizations. As a matter of fact, if enterprises as we know them...

One Microsoft : why they may get things really right

Unless you've spent your summer on Mars, you must have heard of the reorganization announced by Microsoft. "One strategy, One Microsoft" : that's how...

The future of enterprise (#1) : the status quo

The future of enterprise and management raises lots of suppositions, fantasies and concerns. The current model is defective and that's a point no one...

No technology is social. People and their practices do.

In short : developing practices and behaviors to bring them online and favor technology adoption is only the visible part of the iceberg. Before...

Is your organization conductive ?

Summary : a conductive organization knows how to organize on information flows and turn them not into inert matter but into actionable assets to...