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From the Organization CHART to the Organization MAPS
One of the difficulties with organizations today is to represent them in an acceptable way. The old organization chart is largely outdated since it shows only the hierarchical dependencies and not the reality of the corporation. But what is the reality? How could one represent an organization in a way useful to employees, clients,…
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Pros and cons of networking in organisations: where is the balance?
Everyone talks about networking; you get invitations galore to be on some new website, then spend more time juggling from one to the other than really getting interested in what comes through, whether these are professional or personal driven. Has the world gone topsy-turvy with all this rigmarole? No, will tell you those that keep…
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Community Manager or the Art of Ambiguity: an introduction
Note: what is discussed here is the Enterprise 2.0 Community Managers view, focusing primarily (although not exclusively) on the internal side of it, rather than the social media marketing individuals. Last fall, Dion Hinchcliffe wrote about the online community manager as the « jack of all trades » in his blog, and his view generated some discussion…
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Social networks do offer the best networking possible; but, where is the catch?
Networking is the one key to the knowledge economy. If it all started with the web 1.0 of information posting, the web 2.0 of interconnections has leveraged the sharing opportunities to no limit, just a question of organizing your work so that you do not get overwhelmed. On top of that, it has broken barriers…
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Social networks do offer the best networking possible; but, where is the catch?
Networking is the one key to the knowledge economy. If it all started with the web 1.0 of information posting, the web 2.0 of interconnections has leveraged the sharing opportunities to no limit, just a question of organizing your work so that you do not get overwhelmed. On top of that, it has broken barriers…
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The XXIst Century is becoming a teenager, are we too?
The name of the coming decade, between now and 2020, has not yet appeared on the screens of the « namemakers » and it may take a few years before it does. However, one thing is certain, whatever else happens in this decade, and the best or the worst could (the last teenage decade, 1910-1920 was one…
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The XXIst Century is becoming a teenager, are we too?
The name of the coming decade, between now and 2020, has not yet appeared on the screens of the « namemakers » and it may take a few years before it does. However, one thing is certain, whatever else happens in this decade, and the best or the worst could (the last teenage decade, 1910-1920 was one…
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Crises and Innovation: intuition, imagination and networking
Terrible to say but a crisis has a positive side to it; you must have heard about the Chinese word for crisis: written with two separate kanji that mean risk and opportunity. Thus, the crisis is here to tell us that we need to take risks and opportunities shall arise as a result! From…
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Crises and Innovation: intuition, imagination and networking
Let intuition guide you, let imagination feed you, let networking kindle you: that is innovation in and of itself; if you give yourself, and your network, credit for progress, we will altogether go far ahead in our new paradigm. Happy New Year to all and let’s innovate together in 2010.
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Enterprise 2.0 experience: 5 misconceptions
Sometimes when participating in the launch of a brand new initiative, a disruptive one, you may feel a bit like the sorcerer’s apprentice and not too sure how to make things happen. Donning your wizards robe and hat, you go ahead with what seems to be the right things to do, while eager to see…
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Communication… so much of it!
How many times did you feel frustrated with a simple text message when you wished you had had lengthy news? The times of the long letter, handwritten with care, sent with that special feeling (pleasure or chore, as the case may be) are long gone. Now, we get this sense of accomplishment when we have…
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Communication… so much of it!
How many times did you feel frustrated with a simple text message when you wished you had had lengthy news? The times of the long letter, handwritten with care, sent with that special feeling (pleasure or chore, as the case may be) are long gone. Now, we get this sense of accomplishment when we have…
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From Augmented Reality to Augmented Business
Another buzz word enters the arena. Two letters: AR, short for Augmented Reality (wikipedia definition). This concept has long been prophesied by the writers of the cyberpunk genre. However, with the advent of the always-on smart-phones outfitted with a GPS sensor, a magnetometer (a.k.a. digital compass) and live camera view finder, augmented reality is entering…
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Listening
There are several paradoxes in the current overload of information showering on us everyday, from twitter to RSS to mail to alerts on discussions we are part of, to news, etc. – The first paradox is that we feel overwhelmed while for most of it, this information overload’s main culprit is us because we are…
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Listening
There are several paradoxes in the current overload of information showering on us everyday, from twitter to RSS to mail to alerts on discussions we are part of, to news, etc. – The first paradox is that we feel overwhelmed while for most of it, this information overload’s main culprit is us because we are…
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Presence, the next life changer
When the Internet started in the 80’s, globalization was unheard of and those working in international organizations were not « connected » across frontiers and seas. Open questions – fewer at that time – were solved by asking nearby in the same office, floor, building or restaurant. Twenty years later, technology has made everything faster and everyone…
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Réseau et organisation: n’oubliez jamais la valeur du contact en face-à-face
Alors que l’on vit de plus en plus un monde virtuel où l’échange principal se fait par informatique, il ne faut pas s’étonner du fait que les plus jeunes aient besoin de partager des photos, une belle indication du besoin de sentir ce contact anihilé par la distance informatique. S’il ne faut pas nier le…
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Tools and Usages, the Innovation Conundrum
As I mentioned in an earlier blog on the Future Features of Social Media, there is a lot of difficulties for community tools designers to “invent” new usages (although they can invent new features) and there is a lot of difficulties for the users to find out which usages they will need tomorrow. This…
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Tools and Usages, the Innovation Conundrum
As I mentioned in an earlier blog on the Future Features of Social Media, there is a lot of difficulties for community tools designers to “invent” new usages (although they can invent new features) and there is a lot of difficulties for the users to find out which usages they will need tomorrow. This…
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Tools and Usages, the Innovation Conundrum
As I mentioned in an earlier blog on the Future Features of Social Media, there is a lot of difficulties for community tools designers to “invent” new usages (although they can invent new features) and there is a lot of difficulties for the users to find out which usages they will need tomorrow. This…
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A note to CEOs: WHY switching your organization toward interactive management? HOW?
WHY? Three objectives. Let’s take some distance with the Enterprise 2.0 concept and fashion and wonder what are the real reasons why a corporation should switch to an interactive management with all its cohort of implied pain and complexity (since this is a change issue and not a fun issue). It is not only…
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Note aux PDG : Pourquoi faire passer votre organisation au management interactif? Comment ?
Let’s take some distance with the Enterprise 2.0 concept and fashion and wonder what are the real reasons why a corporation should switch to an interactive management with all its cohort of implied pain and complexity (since this is a change issue and not a fun issue). It is not only because collaborative/ interactive management…
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Finding purpose in this new world
« PURPOSE » |ˈpərpəs| noun the reason for which something is done or created or for which something exists Purpose, a key word in any human endeavor. What are we doing here? For which purpose? This question is fundamental, not only from a philosophical or religious point of view, but very pragmatically from an economic and social,…
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Finding purpose in this new world
« PURPOSE » |ˈpərpəs| noun the reason for which something is done or created or for which something exists Purpose, a key word in any human endeavor. What are we doing here? For which purpose? This question is fundamental, not only from a philosophical or religious point of view, but very pragmatically from an economic and social,…
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On Shirky’s last book
A few snippets of Clay Shirky’s last book, « Here Comes Everybody ». and which relate to Enterprise 2.0: which means that we are likely to encounter strong resistance from the power structures in place when increasing collaboration in companies, and as Dominique points out, it might not be worth the trouble in some cases; which means…
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On Shirky’s last book
A few snippets of Clay Shirky’s last book, « Here Comes Everybody ». and which relate to Enterprise 2.0: which means that we are likely to encounter strong resistance from the power structures in place when increasing collaboration in companies, and as Dominique points out, it might not be worth the trouble in some cases; which means…
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From the American Dream to the OECD nightmare?
What implications for the World of Work? Can tomorrow’s organization of work be constructed to avoid the worst consequences of the « nightmare »? The American Dream is relatively easy to define with two propositions: -1 One will be better off later because he has all the opportunities to grow and develop and become richer via his…
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If collaboration is bad for you, make it better
An interesting article by Morten T. Hansen underlines the need to carefully analyse whether to launch a collaboration project or not. While he underlines important aspects of successful collaboration, in my opinion, he does not delve long enough in how to build the perfect conditions for successful collaboration within an organization. And what collaboration, exactly…
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If collaboration is bad for you, make it better
An interesting article by Morten T. Hansen underlines the need to carefully analyse whether to launch a collaboration project or not. While he underlines important aspects of successful collaboration, in my opinion, he does not delve long enough in how to build the perfect conditions for successful collaboration within an organization. And what collaboration, exactly…
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Groups are conservative
Through @timoreilly on twitter – I think – I discovered this presentation by Clay Shirky on his latest book « Here Comes Everybody ». Clay makes the same point as in my book, namely that people gather on the web to share, then to enter conversation, then to collaborate, and finally and hopefully coordinated action. But what…