Jul
22
Through Jean-Paul Taravella (Thanks !), my colleague at AREVA, I had the privilege to meet Lamis Zolhof of SNCF today. Lamis, an architect by training, has implemented one of the very few successful intranet applications I have seen so far to share best practices. Many companies present similar concepts at conventions and trade shows, usually along with the software company who developed the application, but actually very few go beyond a vague proof of concept.
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Written by Martin R. Dugage
Enterprise 2.0, Uncategorized
Jun
29
Compte Rendu rapide de l’atelier i-expo du 18 juin 2009 sur “Maximiser l’impact stratégique des réseaux professionnels”, animé par l’Institut Boostzone et avec comme invités Pascal Morand, DG du groupe ESCP Europe, Christophe Labarde, DG Association des anciens HEC, Jean Joseph Boillot, économiste et fondateur de l‘EIBG (Euro India Business Group), Philippe Boyer, PDG de Réseau Idéal.
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Written by Dominique Turcq
Uncategorized
Apr
19
Using Twitter
This little mindmap found on applicant through Twine summarizes all the various usages of Twitter in a business setting.
Full size image here.
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Written by Martin R. Dugage
Uncategorized, WOW world of work
Apr
15
INTRODUCTION
I am pleased to introduce within this blog a contribution by Cecile Demailly, a member of the Boostzone Institute, on several documents she produced after having been working on social network implémentation with a large client of her.
Have a good read !
Dominique Turcq
Web 2.0 is often viewed as a technology revolution (open source, interoperability, SaaS and other SOAs), or possibly an economic revolution (new business models, globalization, empowered customers), but less often a social revolution (networks, shared values, diversity, intergenerational gaps and dialog, etc). We can discuss endlessly to figure out if the technology created the move, or if the change in attitudes fueled the innovation; if the business perverted the market, or vice versa – to me it is just rhetoric, kind of chicken and egg questions.
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Written by Dominique Turcq
Uncategorized
Apr
11
Will there be a Collaborative Management Crisis?
The financial crisis had been predicted by several experts but nearly nobody wanted to see it. The economic growth and the financial bubble looked so good to have and the financial system looked so stable (with its outrageous health and the huge bonuses of bankers) that it seemed on the contrary to a crisis that a new Graal had been found.
Today the debt crisis that will fall upon us with its rain of implied taxes and bad news for the free enterprise is obvious to see, but nearly nobody wants to see it. The situation looks bad enough, everyone wants to believe and let believe that the economy will rebound in 2010 (any real tangible proof of that?) and few dare to say that what is done now is simultaneously not enough because it is just the first iceberg we hit on this ocean of issues due to the sea change our global capitalist system is going through.
Tomorrow an other crisis will hit and it will hit corporations directly: the Networks and Communities management crisis. Today many see the issues via the societal explosion of social networks and the development of Web2 (“Sure it will happen within corporations too but…”). Tomorrow managers will suddenly discover their authority will be challenged by horizontal networks, their skills, and in particular leadership skills, will be challenged by many employees, their internal and external communication function will be completely outdated (even if they will have made some window dressing efforts for blogging or creating communities), their HR processes (in particular recruiting evaluating training separating) will have to be handled in ways unknown to them today – even if they will have also made some window dressing actions like internet recruiting fairs, opening of chats between candidates and current employees, etc. ). The paradigm shift in management will hit like an other iceberg on our Titanic corporations, but most just see it today as a small change ahead, as a bump on the road, one of the potential ways to improve productivity or employee engagement…
I wonder who the “Lehman” will be in this world, i.e. which company will be the first to suddenly fall hard because its internal organization will just implode.
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Written by Dominique Turcq
Uncategorized
