Aug
25
Social networks are now a fully integrated part of the world of work. Their most important impact can be summarized within a few points:
- Social relation to work and private life
One’s relation to work is now increasingly related to one’s relation to society, individuals are more and more “defined” by what they do, how they appear in various social networks, professional like LinkedIn or officially private like Facebook. The friending groups (i.e. those individuals one accepts or solicits for being into one’s friend list) include family, friends, relations, colleagues, former colleagues, etc. in a way confusing for all. Some clarification is to be expected in the future either within the social networks (where one will have several categories of friends) or in between social networks (where one will belong to several social networks depending on one’s interest and type of relationships).
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Written by Dominique Turcq
NCM, social networks, Talent Management, World of Work Enterprise 2.0, Formation, Management, WOW world of work
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
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
