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The Stopcock and the New Economy
For once, I would like to tell you a little story. When, my wife and me, we arrived the other day at our country house, we found a little letter from our water supply company in the letterbox. It merely … Continue reading
Posted in As experimented
Tagged business design, communities, customers, economy, service design, strategy, thin organization
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The Thin Organization, Part II: Trapped into Causal Opacity?
Our world is changing. Fast. Radically. To cope with this pace of evolution, or to simply avoid disruption, organizations must evolve. The Glorious Thirties, these years which embodied the Golden Age of mass production and standardized consumption, are definitely behind … Continue reading
My Social Business Predictions for 2003 (not a typo) – Part 2
Most of today’s organizations are powerful productive machines, which were founded and grew up during an era where mass production was the norm, and planning was the course of action. This era is over for good, and social business, or … Continue reading
Posted in As seen, heard or read, English
Tagged behavior, business design, complexity, enterprise 20, management, social business, strategy, wicked problems
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The tainted narrative of the workplace
Technology is influencing more than the way we work, it also deeply changes the notion of workplace. As IBM wrote in 2011 in its The new workplace: are you ready? white paper: “Today’s workplace is a virtual and/or physical environment, characterized by … Continue reading
Posted in As experimented, As seen, heard or read, English
Tagged behavior, business design, culture, enterprise 20, governance, IBM, Jive, management, narrative, strategy, workplace
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Innovation, Complexity and Social Business – Part 2
Reconciling Organizational Improvement and Reinvention Through Social Business Design This post is the second of a two-parts article on innovation and social business co-written with Ralph-Christian Ohr (@ralph_ohr). A striking change of focus in the social business arena occurred during … Continue reading
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Tagged business design, business models, cocreation, complexity, innovation, management, social business, strategy, wicked problems
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