(Photo : Mark Richards) (Version Française) In a previous article, we suggested that a network structure was required to take full advantage of the innovations offered by the Internet in the knowledge economy. This network structure has proved its ability to create value from the multiple streams of information. After the introduction, here comes the [...]
(photo : Mark Richards) – (Version française) When an innovation emerges, there always are two steps. The first one consists in integrating the innovation in the way we work. The second one consists in transforming the way we work thanks to the innovation. Thus, people develop new skills and their role start to evolve. (Serge [...]
I have been working in the IT industry for the last 20 years and I’ve witnessed that company or activities within companies go through different stages according to the same pattern. A paradigm is adopted and then the productivity increases up until it reaches a plateau. Then a new paradigm/innovation model is adopted, put in [...]
Many thanks to @flapinta for pointing this one to me (french link). What a revelation ! Isaac Getz is is a professor of Idea, Involvement, and Innovation Management at ESCP Europe. He has been Visiting Professor at Cornell University, Stanford University and at the University of Massachusetts. He graduated in Computer Science, then obtained a [...]
As Enterprise 2.0 activists, we keep on trying to sell Enterprise 2.0 as the ideal solution for your organisation. But to be completely honest, depending on your company objectives, values and culture it may just not work. 10 principles your company may have adopted that will make Enterprise 2.0 implementation counter productive … Like Unlike
Bertrand Duperrin makes an interesting analogy in his post Will Adam Smith drive business in the future ? His take : (…) Opposing a top-down and directive model an emerging relying on the existence of an “ invisible hand” that, in the same way as Adam’s Smith theory in economics, would make people personal actions [...]
Ever since the first time Andrew McAfee coined the term, the definition of Enterprise 2.0 has constantly evolved. Arguably, the most appropriate has been : “The use of emergent social software platforms within companies, or between companies and their partners or customers.” Regardless of how good these definitions have been, none of them has given [...]
God bless Jon Husband : he pointed me via a Twitter conversation to his telling blog post (Will Enterprise 2.0 drive management innovation) on Fast Forward blog, where he quotes Gary Hamel FAN-TAS-TIC book : The Future of Management. To start with, Gary Hamel is not an obscure blogger or some kind of geek preparing [...]
Towers Perrin has published the results of a Global Workforce Survey they made about employees engagement. The survey has involved about 90,000 people over 18 countries. The objective was to rate the level of engagement of the people in their work. People are split into 4 groups depending on their level of engagement : Engaged: [...]
Early Strategies has just released a fresh an extremely useful report on Enterprise 2.0 and the current level of adoption. This international (FR, UK, NE, US) survey (summary) was conducted between November 2009 and January 2010, targeting Multinational Companies (MNCs) and international organizations (France-Telecom, Cisco, AT&T, Amadeus, IBM etc …). The clear intent was to [...]
Emergent Social Software Platforms (ESSP) are now at the doorstep of the enterprise. The question one may ask is : how does it fit alongside the already existing Enterprise IT systems. Companies have spent a fortune during the last 10 years implementing business critical Enterprise wide systems such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship [...]
After reading the excellent Andrew McAfee Enterprise 2.0 book, I was wondering if there was any point for Heavy Mental to publish yet another review. There already are plenty around with Venkatesh Rao’s on Enterprise 2.0 blog and Gil Yehuda’s probably being the most interesting ones. It might be more valuable to offer a perspective [...]
(French version) The pitch: Enterprise implementation of social networks is the third step of a gradual immersion of the enterprise into the internet culture. This immersion occurs because there is the obvious truth : web works with amazing speed on an amazing scale. I have been lucky enough to witness from the inside the major [...]
I have been reading a lot of Scott Berkun lately, including his brilliant Confessions of a Public Speaker (french review available). A must read for any speaker, professional or not, to make sure you transmit clearly your ideas . However, sometimes you just don’t have a dedicated room, with people ready to offer you 30 [...]
If you are new to Twitter then it’s easy to get confused with so many twitter applications out there. Further, if you are a business user than you may have no time to do research on the applications. We really can’t deny the fact that businesses are testing out Twitter as part of their steps [...]
