Jan 15

de l’huile dans les rouages de la collaboration

La collaboration en entreprise n’est ni naturelle, ni habituellement amusante, ni spontanée. Comment utiliser l’art et le “fun” pour la dynamiser?
Au cours d’un atelier de travail nous avons étudié les méthodes employées chez Danone ainsi que les techniques de créativité -inspirées du monde artistique- du cabinet Innovia.

Vous trouverez dans ce film un aperçu de la networking attitude avec la mise en place de market places de bonnes pratiques qui “sérieuses dans le fond et enjouées dans la forme” mettent à jour de véritables filons de compétences à l’intérieur de la société.  Parfaitement complémentaire, la démarche des expéditions “mind opener” permet aux salariés de découvrir les points d’excellence d’autres organisations.

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Jan 04

Managerialism, an old battle with many similarities with Network Centric Management today

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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Jan 01

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!

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Dec 09

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 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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Nov 25

“Power to the edge” in the media too!

logo2An old habit I kept from my Boston years is to listen to OnPoint Radio, which I enjoy very much. There is nothing comparable in France with such high level debates on the key topics of the moment.

The broadcast of November 19. , “Google vs. Murdoch”, is a great moment and definitely worth listening. Guests were: Read more »