Dec
12
I was with a client yesterday, thinking about how to bring collaboration skills (and awareness) to future leaders. Several points come to my mind after this conversation:
- This particular client has broken down its HR department: HR administration, social matters and people development are really managed by very different departments and people. This is pragmatic HR innovation to my mind !
- Putting the whole collaboration affair in the People department is a great approach, but one that should be managed carefully. When looking at collaboration through classic people development lenses, we are brought to think about classic people development services (using training and development to develop new usages, skills, technology skills, …). That’s important but clearly not enough.
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Written by Luis Alberola
Enterprise 2.0, Management, Talent Management Enterprise 2.0, Management
Dec
05
I re-read recently a couple of posts by Stowe Boyd, on his notion that “the individual is the new group” (here).
Stowe’s point, as I understand it, is that the important thing for the new social tools is giving people the ability to form the groups they need at the moment they need them (Stowe says this much better and in more detail). This implies that groups (the vast majority of them) are short lived and serve a specific purpose. I think this should also be the case for networks and communities even though their purpose is often more complex and they are therefore longer-lived.
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Written by Luis Alberola
Enterprise 2.0 Enterprise 2.0, Management
Oct
26
In a conversation launched a month ago by Andrew McAfee in this post, and continued last week through this post, there was a lot of buzz on whether it was a good idea or not to measure E2.0 participation of knowledge workers. I tend to agree with Andrew McAfee that measuring E2.0 activities would “encourage and increase participation and contributions”. And I think we are looking at a major change opportunity.
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Written by Luis Alberola
Enterprise 2.0, Talent Management Uncategorized, WOW world of work
Oct
12
Again, a very good article in HBR on mass collaboration. This one, written by Scott Cook from Intuit, gives me the opportunity to explain why this “user contribution revolution” is a unique opportunity for HR departments to reinvent themselves.
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Written by Luis Alberola
Enterprise 2.0, Talent Management Enterprise 2.0, Management
