Enterprise 2.0 Management 10 Principles in Video

Robert Lavigne from Canada made this great Slideware and Video from Heavy Mental blog post Enterprise 2.0 explained to my manager in 10 Principles.

This has been presented to the CIPS IT Executive in Toronto. Amazing stuff and congratulations Robert for the work.

Heaven knows I love how internet helps in spreading ideas all around the globe !

On Geeks and Apple and why iPad seals their divorce

I do admire Geeks. I have nothing but respect for their work.

Their contribution with open source software to today’s world is unquestionnable. The idea that a bunch of coders came up with such great solutions as Firefox, Linux, Gimp, Eclipse, OpenOffice, JBoss (and all Java Enterprise frameworks) to name a few that I use on an everyday basis, this idea is just amazing.

Back in the day when I was working for In Fusio, a start-up doing video games and services for the mobile phone industry, I had this wonderful opportunity to work with a bunch of the most talented ones. These guys implemented the first over-the-air download system for mobile phones back in the early 2000’s. In 2 and a half years I’ve learnt as much as I would have in ten years in any other company.

What I’ve noticed though, is that geeks are not passionate about products. They are passionate about technology.

Just like old tribes have rites to pass and become a man, one has to harness the technology to get some consideration from a Geek.

Enterprise 2.0 Forum à Paris

L’Enterprise 2.0 Forum se déroulera les 17 et 18 Mars à Paris au Méridien Montparnasse.

Cette édition succède à celle de Francfort qui a eu lieu l’Automne dernier et précède celle de Cologne qui aura lieu elle au Printemps prochain.

ECM World souhaite, avec ces conférences, donner une dimension résolument européenne à la réflexion globale qui a lieu aujourd’hui autour de l’Entreprise 2.0.

L’objectif est de s’assurer que ce nouveau système transverse d’entreprise, structurant l’organisation tel un ERP, SCM ou PLM, n’est pas uniquement calibré autour des valeurs et cultures d’entreprises anglo-saxonnes.

Par ici pour le programme et les bons de réduction …

OMG ! Heavy Mental article on the New York Times online

Since I’ve joined the TechItEasy mob, I publish my english posts both on Heavy Mental and Tech It Easy. This brings more content to this collaborative blog and give more visibility to my posts.

What a surprise yesterday to see that the New York Times online has published a long article about my 5 Elevator pitches for Enterprise 2.0 adoption article copy on T.I.E.

We found this post on Tech IT Easy. It goes through five elevator pitches to make for Enterprise 2.0.

It’s a telling post. While it seems like Enterprise 2.0 is becoming widely adopted, there is still a struggle for how to explain what it means and how to pitch the concept to executive management, middle managers and the people who may find the technology valuable for their work.

This is what disintermediation is all about. A proof that anyone can have a blog post discussed on the New York Times online.

Man, what a day !

Five Elevator pitches for Enterprise 2.0 adoption

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 minutes of attention. You don’t have the slideware, you don’t have the projector or your laptop.

No. What you have is just a 30 seconds time frame, where you bump into some executive or very important people in the company. And what you want is to take advantage of this opportunity to pitch people into some Enterprise 2.0 basics.

Scott addresses this point in one of his many excellent blog posts : How to pitch an idea.

Now let’s see some elevator pitches to 5 key enterprise persona for 2.0 adoption …

7 raisons de lire Confessions of a Public Speaker

Après les incontournables The Art Of Project Management (ressorti sous le nom de Making Things Happen) et Myths of Innovation, O’Reilly publie le nouvel ouvrage de l’impeccable Scott Berkun.

Après avoir abordé les sujets de gestion de projet et d’innovation, Scott aborde avec ses habituels talent, humour et sagacité un troisième thème important de la vie professionnelle : l’art de présenter ses idées.

Il connait la maison entreprise : 10 ans chez Microsoft (Project Manager Internet Explorer) ça vous forme un knowledge worker.

Sept bonnes raisons de lire cet excellent bouquin :

Yann Algan : Comment construire une société de confiance

Yann Algan (prix du meilleur jeune économiste 2008) a co-écrit avec Pierre Cahuc la Société de Défiance (Comment le modèle français s’auto-détruit) ouvrage déjà abordé ici, et auquel je ne cesse de me réferer tant cette analyse économique me semble fondamentale pour mieux comprendre la mécanique intime de notre pays.

Yann présente ici une synthèse de ses travaux dans le cadre d”une conférence à Normale Sup’. (Bon allez, une minuscule ombre au tableau : on pourra peut-être lui recommander de lire Confessions of a Public Speaker pour améliorer son jeu de scène un peu hésitant).

L’impeccable Benjamin Pelletier fait justement remarquer que le passage le plus intéressant de cette présentation se situe vers la fin lorsque Algan compare les programmes pédagogiques de la maternelle entre la France et les pays Scandinaves.

Chez ces derniers, l’effort est porté sur le développement collaboratif, qui cimente la confiance, alors que chez nous il est porté sur le développement cognitif, probablement pour préparer aux grandes écoles.

Une perspective neuve et essentielle.

Structure ? The Flatter the Better

Corner Office – Structure? The Flatter the Better, says Cristóbal Conde – Question – NYTimes.com.

A spectacular interview of Cristobal Conde, C.E.O of Sungard. Andrew McAfee, Stowe Boyd and Sameer Patel all commented on this interview.

I wrote about the 10 principles of Management with Enterprise 2.0. Cristobal Conde happens to embody all of them. How about this gentleman as a C.E.O 2.0 ?

10 valeurs essentielles : les incohérences de l’entreprise française

Le numéro #36 de Courrier Cadres présente les résultats d’un benchmark de l’agence Wellcom. Cette dernière a dressé un index international des corporate values des entreprises de plusieurs pays européens.

Si l’innovation est en tête dans tous les pays, les autres résultats sont assez hétérogènes et plutôt cohérents. On retrouve ainsi la Qualité, l’Environnement et la Satisfaction Client chez les Allemands, la Qualité et la Tradition chez les Italiens, la Satisfaction Client et le Succès chez les Anglais. Les résultats français eux sont plutôt étonnants, et à plus d’un titre.

Au delà de l’analyse bâclée, consensuelle et sans réelle valeur ajoutée du magazine, attardons nous un instant sur ce classement des 10 valeurs françaises, ce qu’elles signifient et comment elles traduisent des incohérences entre, d’une part, la perception qu’à cette entreprise.fr d’elle même, et d’autre part, la réalité.

How Enterprise 2.0 fosters Knowledge Capture

(Knowledge Capture in Enterprise 2.0 – click to enlarge)

Knowledge Worker : one who works primarily with information or one who develops and uses knowledge in the workplace (Peter Drucker – 1959)

If the definition above applies to your job then you probably are a knowledge worker. I personally am. And knowledge is the raw material we’re working with.

As opposed to the raw material manual workers deal with, knowledge is immaterial, it is just floating around. If we want to be productive we need to make sure this knowledge is harnessed, i.e captured and easily accessible.

Some studies show that between 25 and 50% of the communication between knowledge workers remains tacit and uncaptured. The question is how can we be productive and comfortable with our daily work if about half of the raw material we’re working with is wandering around ?

In the enterprise 2.0 presentation, I compare the knowledge capture in Enterprise 1.0 and 2.0. And it goes like this …

Pomplamoose : social networks, video-songs and disintermediation

Internet IS disintermediation. It removes boundaries between services/product producers and consumers.

Which means that if your business model consists in standing between them, as a gatekeeper, then you have a positioning problem. Record companies have been learning this the hard way during the last decade.

We all know about Myspace and how musicians made their work popular before signing a contract with a record company (think Lily Allen and Arctic Monkeys).

It looks like even this time is over : the music industry business model is now getting a step further towards disintermediation with the smart, cheap and beautiful Pomplamoose.

6 reasons to encourage enterprise conversations with collaborative platforms

(version française)

Bertrand Duperrin explains in a quite remarkable post the risk of backslash when using standard web 2.0 key words while presenting social networks to a new audience. The reason is : there could be some misunderstanding from the audience.

Among these key words : Conversation. Bertrand exposes the issue  :

Try to tell a manager, who’s been fighting againtst chattings that are synonymous with wasted time and bad productivity for years, that his staff now need to have conversations, and, even worse, that his role is to stimulate these conversations….and look at the manager’s face

6 reasons to bring management and the enterprise conversation back together. And to use collaborative platforms to foster the latter.

Heavy Mental on Social Computing Journal

I’m delighted to announce that HeavyMental blog post on the 10 management principles for Enterprise 2.0 has been published on Social Computing Journal.

I recevieved a mail from M. Dion Hinchcliffe himself asking the permission to use the material on the site. How much of a disintermediation is that ? Awesome !

Believe it or not, Dion started with “let me introduce myself“. As if musician would receive a mail from Quincy Jones introducing himself …  A proof, if need be, that Dion is a gentleman.

He took the opportunity to edit the text in proper english, which is dead cool.

Thanks Dion. Anytime.

37 Signals : Digital Natives Leadership in action

(Version Française)

The question I’m always asked when I run out of my friends/colleagues/dog patience with the issue of Digital Natives integration within the enterprise is : how to convince the proponents of this culture to adhere to a common professional project, to an organization with rules and commitments ?

The answer is straight-forward : leadership. A leadership for a post-ideologic generation. A leadership whose core resides in simple and clear principles, to put in practise, rather than plastic values nobody believes in.

Enterprise 2.0 represents a gradual immersion of the XXth century organisations into the web culture. Digital Natives Companies are born from this culture : there is no change required to adopt these principles as they are the core foundations the companies were built on.

In order to illustrate this assertion (and as promised), an overview of 37Signals, a GenY company achieving incredible results, from both financial and reputation perspectives.

Innovation : définitions, mythes et management

(English version)

Dans la présentation Entreprise 2.0, je consacre quelques slides à la définition où plutôt à des définitions de l’innovation. L’objectif est de faire apparaître un certain nombre de leviers qui, lorsqu’articulés intelligemment, contribuent à son émergence.

Ce post a été développé suite à de longues discussions animées avec des collègues de R&D qui réduisaient l’innovation à la seule maîtrise technologique. Et les recherches subséquentes ont à leur tout inspiré le chapitre Innovation de la présentation.

L’impeccable Scott Berkun (again and again !) a été une source d’inspiration constante. Scott nous conduira à travers ce billet avec cette vidéo de la conférence brillante qu’il a donnée sur le sujet @ Carnegie Mellon (50minutes). (Lire le  billet d’abord !)

En guest stars : Brad Bird (Pixar), Steve Jobs, Douglas Merrill (Google), Linda Naiman, DHH (37Signals), Kathy Sierra, etc …