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Jan
2
2012

"Le thème de l'innovation sociale est apparu dans les années 1960, porté par des théoriciens du management comme Peter Drucker ou des entrepreneurs sociaux comme Michael Young, le fondateur d'Open University. Mais il n'a vraiment pris son essor que depuis une dizaine d'années, en redessinant la frontière parfois floue entre entreprise et société civile, l'une s'inspirant de l'autre et réciproquement."

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  • Depuis longtemps les modèles d’affaires et de management se sont haussés au niveau de l’innovation technologique. L’art d’organiser les hommes, de jouer de leurs interactions, est au cœur de la création de valeur. Certains économistes vont plus loin, en se demandant si l’innovation sociale ne jouera pas demain un rôle comparable.
  • James Taylor la définissait en 1970 comme “de nouvelles façons de faire les choses dans le but de répondre à des besoins sociaux”. Cela peut tenter deux types d’acteurs: les militants et, comme chez Schumpeter, les entrepreneurs.
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Oct
21
2008

Although an entire industry of consultants, HR professionals, and software firms seem bent on devoting more and more time and money to performance evaluations, all the energy devoted to these things over the years have done little to change Sam's observation about the difference between the promise and the problems:

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      • The Promise: Performance reviews are supposed to provide an objective evaluation that helps determine pay and lets employees know where they can do better.
      • The Problems: That's not most people's experience with performance reviews. Inevitably reviews are political and subjective, and create schisms in boss-employee relationships. The link between pay and performance is tenuous at best. And the notion of objectivity is absurd; people who switch jobs often get much different evaluations from their new bosses.

  • Sam's article is also in the spirit of design thinking, as in many cases, after people have spent years trying to perfect some procedure, gadget, or feature that they -- usually mindlessly -- accept as something they cannot do without and then a breakthrough happens when some clever person (often someone who isn't an expert in the field) comes along and removes it or unwittingly goes forward and succeeds without it. Then everyone realizes that they never needed it at all.
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