Social business : between barriers and brakes

obstacle

When you start a social business project , you do not realize all the barriers you will have to face . Otherwise there are chances that you would give up before you start, as the mountain may seem huge to climb (which is true and false ). Moreover, companies often do not realize that if they really implement a social business project, this does not mean installing a tool to streamline the flow of information and allow a kind of freespeech, but transform its organization and its business process.

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Become a digital company

atelier-post-digital-era The new 2013 study from MIT Sloan management review about digitalization is online. 78% of the respondants (1559 persons in 106 countries) think that achieving a digital transformation is critical. Digital means as well management, business model, not just conversation on plateform, internal or external. There is still a long road.

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Devenir une organisation digitale

atelier-post-digital-eraLa cuvée 2013 de la MIT Sloan management review sur la digitalisation des organisations vient de sortir. J’en avais déjà parlé l’année dernière, voyons ce que ce nouvel opus nous apporte au moment où 78% des répondants (1559 personnes dans 106 pays) considèrent que cette transformation est critique. Juste pour mémoire, on parle bien aussi du management, du business model, pas juste converser sur quelques plateformes internes ou externes. Il reste donc du travail.

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Social business : be inspired by startups, really ?

start-upCécile Demailly has written an article on her blog in june, What corporations could learn from startups. There is a long time that I want to write an article about this issue, her article is a good excuse to make it. Even if I share some points with my friend Cécile, I think some points needs to be highlight. I know Cécile Demailly and I had some esteem for her professional abilities and she knows what is involved in organization transformation and the change management required. It’s just to easy to say let’s do it like startups

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Social business is like presidential elections

64024_344544775592483_100001108908372_1055511_1928219822_nThere is one year, I’ve written an article wich compared the presidential elections and the entreprise 2.0. This month the french president has celebrate is one year birthday at the Elysée. It’s the occasion to translate this article.

Launch a social business project is like a presidential election. There is the pro and the con, the pledge, the spin doctors (consultants)… and if your project is validated, you’ll have to deliver. Let’s see that in details.

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