Tag Archives: management

Moving Beyond the Smoke Screen

Posted on November 29, 2010 by thierry

“Social software enables people to rendezvous, connect or collaborate through computer-mediated communication and to form online communities.” This definition, taken from Wikipedia, and quoted by Andrew McAfee in his 2006 definition of Enterprise 2.0, summaries pretty well most present ‘social’ … Continue reading →

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Is Enterprise 2.0 About “Socializing Business Processes”? Let’s get serious

Posted on July 20, 2010 by thierry

Business processes has recently became quite a buzzword among the Enterprise 2.0 community, notably since June’s Boston conference. It suddenly seems that the whole discourse has changed from a leadership-fueled point of view to a down-to-the-ground (and to the balanced … Continue reading →

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Social Business, Decision Making and the Future of Management

Posted on May 28, 2010 by thierry

How do we take decisions in a networked, community-based, environment? Yet crucial to one of the core competencies of business, this very question is quite never addressed in the fast growing literature about Enterprise 2.0 or Social Business. In order … Continue reading →

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From Social Media to Social Business: The Missing ‘Social’ Link

Posted on May 7, 2010 by thierry

I am often puzzled by the way organizations and agencies tackle social media, as if conversational marketing and Enterprise 2.0 were living in separate worlds, addressing totally different issues, pursuing irreconcilable goals. Do they? Of course, when considering the ‘media’ … Continue reading →

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Knowledge, From Productivity Source to Critical Component

Posted on December 9, 2009 by thierry

This post was cross-posted on ecollab carnival blog, as part of a collaborative thinking about the future of the training department. Productivity: The amount of output per unit of input (labor, equipment, and capital). Enterprise has for long understood, and … Continue reading →

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