Apr
03
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 their eyes stuck to their I-Phone, Blackberry or equivalent; yes, will answer those who relish on glorious sights in beautiful countryside. But what can be pros and cons for a company: from top to bottom.
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Written by Martin de Waziers
branding, Management, networking Management, Uncategorized
Mar
25
One thing that strikes me today is the analogy between what is happening on a global scale between Google and China and what takes place daily on a minor scale in our companies between social media activists and central IT departments. On the one side, the people who advocate some form of freedom of speech to transfer valuable knowledge and view the company as a beehive, and on the other, the people who believe they have to control the way people actually work and view the corporate world as a machine to be automated with ERPs. Google decided to move to Hong-Kong, the same way corporate social media projects move to SaaS suppliers when corporate IT builds walls and behave like Mordac, the preventor of information services in Dilbert. It is the same political struggle, in the noble sense, and I discussed this at length in my book.
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Written by Martin R. Dugage
Enterprise 2.0, Management
Mar
23
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 among Boostzone members and fellows. Hinchcliffe’s diagram is rich and exhaustive, with responsibilities spanning 11 different areas, as diverse as can be, ranging from Platform Management to Brand Management and Staff Development. Among the reactions to the graph, Dominique Turcq liked the approach but thought it made it an unsustainable job and therefore community management should not be just a job definition. I worried about putting all these responsibilities on one head (or even one community management team) and argued that rather the entire organization should take the E2.0 train, and share the load. Philippe Masson, commented that in his past responsibilities as Capgemini’s global leader of the strategy consultants community, with a team to support the assignment, his focus was more fundamental: provide a shared aspiration for the community members, entertain a climate of trust amongst them, and promote the value and fight for the values of the community with group executives.
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Written by Cécile Demailly
Community Management, Enterprise 2.0, Governance Enterprise 2.0, Management
Jan
04
You should read this article “Managerialism and the demise of the Big Three”
by Robert R Locke [Emeritus, University of Hawaii, USA and a specialist of the history of management sciences]. It was published in December 2009 in the real-world economics review, issue no. 51.
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Written by Dominique Turcq
NCM Enterprise 2.0, Management, Uncategorized, WOW world of work
Dec
09
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 how others are doing, and learning from the early experiments. In the past week’s meetings I had with several companies moving into Enterprise 2.0, lessons learned were at the centre of the discussion: what, in the transformation effort, is different from originally expected? Here are 5 misconceptions that came up in the discussions, all valid considerations.
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Written by Cécile Demailly
Enterprise 2.0 Enterprise 2.0, Management
