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May
14
2012

"Organizations have been trying for years to cultivate employee engagement. Like JetBlue, they persist in their efforts for good reason. One of the most powerful factors that spur customers to become advocates for a company is employees’ positive behavior and attitude. Bain consumer surveys show that the overall experience of dealing with a company often matters much more to customers than price or brand or—in industries with a big service component, such as home insurance and retail banking— even product features alone."

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  • One reason for this superior performance is that engaged employees direct their energy toward the right tasks and outcomes
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May
9
2012

"While a Traditional, born 1945 or earlier, would accept almost any order as long as it came through the proverbial chain of command, Boomers and Gen X might hesitate but comply. But Millennials most likely will balk at doing things “the way we’ve always done it” because they want freedom of choice in everything. They may not balk at the assignment itself but instead may challenge the methodology."

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  • The one positive result in establishing Millennial generational characteristics is this: when we pay attention to their characteristics, we reexamine our management and leadership style, which ultimately brings us full circle: all human beings want to feel good, want to do good work and be recognized for it, and actually are pretty good people. This is not rocket science!
Nov
30
2011

"Dans un article précédent, je vous ai présenté le modèle 70/20/10, selon lequel le développement des compétences et l’acquisition des connaissances s’effectuent pour 70% « on the job », pour 20% par les interactions avec les autres et seulement pour 10% grâce à la formation formelle.

Entre le social learning dans sa forme la plus pure et l’apprentissage le plus formalisé, il existe toute une palette de possibilités qu’il convient de ne pas délaisser. Comme le conseille le groupe de Princeton à l’origine du modèle 70/20/10, il convient d’adopter une démarche holistique en intégrant dans le même environnement l’informel et le formel."

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  • Qu’avec le elearning 2.0 , on ne change pas vraiment de logique. A l’étage supérieur, des experts décident pour les autres de ce qu’il convient d’apprendre et de comment l’apprendre. Ce contenu est poussé vers sa cible, qui a désormais des outils pour gentiment converser à l’étage en dessous. Cette sociabilisation n’est pas jamais vraiment pris en compte.
  • partir d’un contenu formel, le pousser vers ses cibles, « l’informaliser » ou plutôt pouvoir l‘enrichir de commentaires, votes, propositions de chacun avant de le reformaliser.
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Jun
29
2011

"we had a few moments to talk about her topic of revising how organizations and employees look at performance management. In particular, how we keep a record of what we actually do over a year of work, and get feedback on our efforts from those we engage in our work."

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  • Ms. Wilson was careful to distinguish keeping a record of what we do versus the annual or semi-annual performance reviews with management. The latter usually results in recordkeeping just for the sake of maintaining a system of record, but is rarely used. Instead what we were discussing is storing collective knowledge about the particulars of any project or task so that we as employees may refer to it for our own, or even shared recall of activities.
  • Observable work is a practice to turn what we do in our daily tasks actions, knowledge and insight into recorded information that we can lookup or reuse later if we need to, or in the case of social business be able to share this view of our work with others of our choosing.
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Jan
11
2011

"Community management is indeed a critical role in any fledgling social or adaptive business. Monitoring keywords provides us with invaluable insights that reveal the sentiment, volume and reach of activity within our markets. Identifying, tracking, and engaging customers and stakeholders helps us cultivate rewarding communities measured by loyalty and advocacy. Listening to conversations provides us with an opportunity to feel what people are saying and the experiences they’re sharing. If we pay attention, we can surface the ideas and touchpoints that gives us purpose and provide us with opportunities to earn relevance.

Over the years, the role of the community manager has evolved. What started as a gateway to surfacing the conversations related to brands in the emerging conversational landscape, evolved into something far more sophisticated. And, we’re just getting started."

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  • This new obligation only intensified as social media moved from digital outliers to the mainstream. Now, some of the socially vulnerable brands in the world require a mission control not unlike what we envision when we hear those two words, “mission control.” The difference is that this new infrastructure is designed to ensure positive brand experiences as well as the impact of real-time brand democracy.
  • We are now moving from the era of community management to fully fledged command centers.
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Dec
15
2010

Want some old advice? The customer is always right. Okay, now you can stick that in your pocket. Today's best service entrepreneurs are looking beyond old axioms in relating to customers. That's because today's best customer service isn't something that can be faked: it's personalized and it has a personality. Do you have the certainty you can harness all the feedback customers will give your company, act on it, and keep your best customers coming back for more

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Nov
15
2010

Many managers these days face a social dilemma. They want to use social media to get input from many different customers and employees, because they know that an organization's judgment is improved if its ideation and decision processes incorporate insights from multiple perspectives. But they can't bring themselves to let employees use social media at work, because they fear too much social activity will hinder productivity. While we're all becoming familiar with tweets, profiles, writing on walls, and open online discussion, the key to turning those conversational activities into business value has been elusive."

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  • But work effectiveness also demands that people share their knowledge and expertise with each other. That's where social media comes in.
  • In both cases, the combination of the social and structuring aspects of technology ensures that online social activities are oriented to getting work don
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Nov
2
2010

"Here are several communication "wingtips" gleaned from my experience as a fighter pilot that can apply to you as a business leader:"

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  • Your wingmen need to hear important news — whether good or bad — from you first. This is also a great time to publicly recognize your top performers.
  • Ask them about their goals and challenges and how you can help. Then solicit feedback on you as a leader. What would they like to see from you?
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Aug
12
2010

"The boundary between the technologies in the home and at the office is becoming less marked, but I still have the impression that the products developed are evolutionary rather than revolutionary – blogs, wikis, communities and so on with an ‘enterprise control’ layer – nothing disruptive as such. If you look at Gartner’s Magic Quadrants on the subject, you see that there are some big and a plethora of smaller actors (ripe for a round of consolidation?) with all of them having more or less the same feature set. So the question that arises in my opinion is where do we find inspiration for software innovation?"

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  • Analytics is going to be the hot topic the next 2-3 years, and in my opinion especially when we start combining Social Network interactions and interrelations with transactional customer data in our CRM systems.
  • but again these are systems are developed by ESVs from the point of view of enterprise needs.  Ideas are funneled into business processes, lost to the customers because they are left to ‘wander off’ to be worked upon behind closed doors.
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Mar
24
2010

"If you follow discussions in these developing strategies, you see that there are differing views as to the value of customer feedback. Understanding the different use cases of customer feedback helps organizations to set objectives and expectations appropriately, and to create effective frameworks for engaging customers.

Let’s look at three models for applying customer feedback to innovation."

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    • Features – product or service requests
    • Product’s “job” – understand the deeper purpose your product fulfills
    • Proposal – putting a new concept in front of customer’s to understand its key value drivers
Oct
17
2009

"Pegasystems’ SmartBPM uses social media as an interactive and real-time collaborative environment to aid the planning and execution of business improvement projects. By extending is existing tools for ad hoc collaboration, SmartBPM makes it even easier for project teams to connect, add user-generated content, vote, and rank items associated with any given project. By reaching out to customers and clients, SmartBPM now allows critical real-time customer feedback into the process improvement process."

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Oct
6
2009

"The discussion around Social CRM is entering a phase whereby we are trying to move away from turning around in circles about semantics, towards a more practical and pragmatic approach that businesses can identify with so as to consider implementing it. I won’t deal with CRM Vendors here, as Social CRM can be seen as an extension to CRM. As a primer on SCRM I suggest you look at Bill Band’s article on Customer Think. The main idea that we all do agree upon is that we need to become customer-centric in order to respond to their changing needs and expectations, and this may have some major ramifications on the way we organise our businesses."

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  • We have settled on the idea that we cannot manage what is being said about us (as long there is any Buzz we should be happy, right?). What we do need to do is understand what is being said and for which reasons
  • Community and conversation is all - if the consumers trust the community, they will extend the trust to the brand
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Jul
22
2009

Corporate leaders do not need to hire pollsters but they do need to be more cognizant of the impact of their messages. Most managers are very good at giving messages; following up with repeated iterations is more of a challenge, but a greater challenge is often gauging the effect of the message. We see this most evidently during organizational transformation efforts. There is a lot of energy and enthusiasm expended in getting the word out about the "big change" but relatively little follow up in terms of listening and evaluating impact. To address this, consider these suggestions when crafting your next communication plan.

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Mar
26
2009

The last two Enterprise 2.0 FORUMs have shown that there are some reoccuring characteristics of sucessful perceived E2.0 projects that - from a qualitative perspective - might turn out to be the critical success factors. In regards to our on-going discussions about the topics of the Enterprise 2.0 programm I would therefore like to make some summing-up on these aspects:

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  • IT organizations usually follow a Plan-Build-Run framework that often means Plan-Build-Runaway after the system is deployed. But since many social applications are not transactional or process-specific in a traditional sense [.
  • It structures the benefits of feedback on five levels (from the more concrete to less concrete) :  “social creation” (benefits from the collective intelligence and actions in creating information, cross-links etc), direct feedback (benefits from cross-linking people and information by trackbacks, comments, bookmarks and feed subscriptions), systemic feedback (benefits from new relations/interconnections between people and information) and social feedback (benefits from gaining positive feedback, authority and acknowledgement).
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Nov
29
2008

"Feedback" is one of those loaded, double-meaning words in today's workplace - words that connote very different things to members of different generations.

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  • If you're a Boomer, consider what you expect to happen when you have a "feedback session" with your boss. In all likelihood, the purpose of this exchange would be to assess your performance, to render a judgment. Because Boomers love to win, your hopes may be high for a prize - but still it's not exactly the sort of thing one wants to go through on a daily, weekly, or even monthly basis - once or twice a year is plenty, thank you very much.
  • If you're a member of Generation X, the meaning of "feedback" is similar - it relates to an assessment or judgment. But the hoped-for outcomes may be a bit different. More money is great, but so is a longer leash -- more freedom to operate in your own preferred way.
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Sep
13
2008

Devenir une entreprise apprenante a fait le succès de Toyota et du courant Lean. Le Lean Software Development reprend le principe et place au coeur de cette stratégie deux outils incontournables: Itération (Tool 3) et Feedback (Tool 4). Sur ces deux outils vont alors s'appuyer d'autres préconisations comme la synchronisation, les alternatives de conception, la communication sur les contraintes et l'émergence de la solution.
En somme : on apprend par la pratique (et donc) on apprend aussi de ses erreurs... Au fond, c'est tellement vrai !

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