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Social (II) – Crisis Management
If 2008 shall be considered a warning shot when we shall look back at it in the future, the current crisis is far from over and, if it is not on the immediate economic front that we see it, it is everywhere affecting sustainable development (economic, ecologic, social). 2011 is a shake-up and no need…
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Are modern organizations more zen and more change-ready?
Two organizations with the same activity in a common transforming market: the former has been acquired several times, had its strategy adapted to enhance competitiveness and align with the headquarters, offers high wages and employee retention programs ; the latter offers reasonable wages, has a stable strategy (even a strategy of stability). photo © 2009 Frits…
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Les organisations modernes sont-elles plus zen et aptes au changement ?
Deux entreprises ayant une même activité sur un même marché en pleine transformation : l’une a fait l’objet d’acquisitions en série, d’adaptation de sa stratégie pour améliorer la compétitivité et la rendre cohérente avec celle de la maison mère, offre des salaires élevés, a un programme de fidélisation des employés ; l’autre offre des emplois moins valorisés,…
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Social (I) – Semantics
Social network, Corporate Social Responsibility, social welfare, social economy… there are so many meanings for the same word. The etymology itself is wide, yet comparable from one sense to the other; the Latin socius means: companion, ally, associate. Let’s take each of them and try to make sense of the slight differences. Companion means “eating…
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Quelques réflexions sur l’avenir du management
Pourquoi le management change-t-il ? – Aujourd’hui un basculement économique vers les pays émergents – Demain un basculement géopolitique (avec la domination de la Chine) – Après demain un basculement des valeurs (qui ne seront pas forcément chinoises mais plutôt latino-américaines et indiennes) – forcent à gérer différemment les ressources humaines, naturelles, financières – créent une…
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Le marketing est-il vraiment chamboulé par les medias sociaux ?
La séance du Séminaire Boostzone du 10 décembre dernier a été consacrée au marketing et aux réseaux sociaux. Comme toute séance du Séminaire, réservé aux membres de l’Institut Boostzone, elle eut pour objet de commencer à poser les bonnes questions plutôt que de proposer des réponses. Ce billet présente les principales questions qui en sont…
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Le collaboratif devient « main stream »
C’est une bonne nouvelle, et même si la plupart des grands groupes (et des moins grands) en sont encore à s’interroger sur ce que le collaboratif « à la 2.0 » va leur apporter, au moins ils s’interrogent et commencent, quand ils en ont aperçu les défis, à vite réfléchir aux implications et aux « comment» faire…
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De-friend or make a friend, that is the question?
Wow! If I knew that one could un-friend or de-friend when I scrambled to make some, way back, I would have made much more attempts to add people to my list. I must be old-fashioned because I always decided to be careful about that very step, just because I did not want to be bothered…
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De-friend or make a friend, that is the question?
Wow! If I knew that one could un-friend or de-friend when I scrambledhttp://localhost:8888//boost/wp-admin/post.php?post=2853&action=edit to make some, way back, I would have made much more attempts to add people to my list. I must be old-fashioned because I always decided to be careful about that very step, just because I did not want to be bothered…
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Veille collaborative : Web 2.0 or not Web 2.0 ?
Réunion la semaine dernière avec une dizaine d’entreprises autour du thème « Web 2.0– Intelligence économique, rapport à l’information, organisation de la veille». Quelles évolutions constatées ? Par rapport aux précédentes rencontres auxquelles j’ai participé sur le même thème il y a environ un an, deux changements majeurs – La communauté humaine, la proximité du…
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Soon enough we could all become zombies…
Generation after generation, we have all considered kids as being much worse than we are, I am talking « we » older ones, of course! The last IFOP (a well-known French agency) survey shows that it is clearly the younger ones that have picked up easy on all social networks as « awareness rates » decline significantly from the…
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Soon enough we could all become zombies…
Generation after generation, we have all considered kids as being much worse than we are, I am talking « we » older ones, of course! The last IFOP (a well-known French agency) survey shows that it is clearly the younger ones that have picked up easy on all social networks as « awareness rates » decline significantly from the…
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Is Enterprise 2.0 the neuro-organization?
Using metaphors enriches understanding and provides insights that are not only theoretical, but also incredibly practical. Gareth Morgan, in his book “Images of Organization”, mentions the Brain as one of them, among many others. It didn’t strike me as an interesting analogy until recently, when one of my neuro-psy teachers drew neurons connections on a…
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Boostzone Research on Enhanced Corporate Directories – Online Survey is Open
The Boostzone Institute is currently conducting research into Enhanced Corporate Directories (an Enhanced Corporate Directory is an “intelligent” directory enabling internal social media, knowledge management, communities and networks, etc.). Face to face interviews with executives and design teams from important companies (those with over 5000 employees) were started in June 2010. It has already highlighted…
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Boostzone Research on Enhanced Corporate Directories – Online Survey is Open
The Boostzone Institute is currently conducting research into Enhanced Corporate Directories (an Enhanced Corporate Directory is an “intelligent” directory enabling internal social media, knowledge management, communities and networks, etc.). Face to face interviews with executives and design teams from important companies (those with over 5000 employees) were started in June 2010. It has already highlighted…
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How do I manage to get through the social media maze?
Some people ponder as to why they have not yet joined the craze; you know what I mean, the maze or the labyrinth of social media! But it goes so fast that unless I play the plain follower, I am quickly lost in space… where should I go, which circle should I join, how do…
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How do I manage to get through the social media maze?
Some people ponder as to why they have not yet joined the craze; you know what I mean, the maze or the labyrinth of social media! But it goes so fast that unless I play the plain follower, I am quickly lost in space… where should I go, which circle should I join, how do…
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How HR systems are impacted by new technologies and social networks
The impact of new technologies, especially the web 2.0 ones, and social networks will dramatically change many HR systems. A few examples: Recruitment Recruitment will be impacted by the mass of information now available on individuals via the social networks, their voluntary contributions to their profiles, the possibility to know who they are by cumbing…
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How HR systems are impacted by new technologies and social networks
The impact of new technologies, especially the web 2.0 ones, and social networks will dramatically change many HR systems. A few examples: Recruitment Recruitment will be impacted by the mass of information now available on individuals via the social networks, their voluntary contributions to their profiles, the possibility to know who they are by cumbing…
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Social Networks are no news to the world…
Who said we had invented anything? Just go back in history and you shall realize that the world comes in true contradiction of the NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here means a refusal to use products that have not been developed internally) both in time but also in fact. First, we have just come back full…
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Social Networks are no news to the world…
Networking, symbol (gr. συμβάλλω, unite) of Unity, is hard hit by current winds of wrath and power; I just make the wish that these diabolic (gr. διάϐολος, separation) forces shall disappear in time and networking fully play its role. May companies, applying relevant tools, make only good cohesion sense out of them!
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Can we change world of work’s « liabilities » into world of work’s « assets »?
Let’s be blunt, we tend, in particular in France but this country is not alone among OECD countries to behave in such a way, to consider that our labor force structure comprises three liabilities (“passif”): the young, the old, the unskilled. Why don’t we look at the reality of our needs and potential and start…
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Can we change world of work’s « liabilities » into world of work’s « assets »?
Let’s be blunt, we tend, in particular in France but this country is not alone among OECD countries to behave in such a way, to consider that our labor force structure comprises three liabilities (“passif”): the young, the old, the unskilled. Why don’t we look at the reality of our needs and potential and start…