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May
17
2012

"In a study of U.S. and European companies, The Boston Consulting Group found that “over the past fifteen years, the amount of procedures, vertical layers, interface structures, coordination bodies, and decision approvals needed...has increased by anywhere from 50 percent to 350 percent.” What’s more, in the most complicated organizations, “managers spend 40 percent of their time writing reports and 30 percent to 60 percent of it in coordination meetings.” No wonder people feel like they can never get any real work done."

procedures process productivity

  • Why do we love process so much? It offers a way to measure progress and productivity, which makes people feel more efficient and accountable.
  • Smart processes encapsulate bundles of organizational knowledge. And that’s a good thing.
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May
16
2012

"To stay competitive, organizations need to continually find opportunities for innovation in key processes such as customer service and product development, and adoption of a new process almost always requires the implementation of new information technology. In his 1990 classic HBR article "Reengineering Work: Don't Automate, Obliterate," Michael Hammer argued that IT must drive radical process innovation.

Unfortunately, this creates two problems. First, as Hammer argued, these large investments in new IT systems tend to deliver disappointing results, largely because companies tend to use technology to mechanize old ways of doing business. That is, they leave the existing processes intact and use computers simply to speed them up, rather than redesign them from scratch. "

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  • Second, they don't take enough advantage of the innovative abilities of their people themselves. Employees often feel victimized rather than energized by the changes.
  • The best way to solve both of these problems — and make innovation efforts stick — is not to impose a new process or technology system, but rather have front-line employees drive the change.
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May
7
2012

"It is time to rethink. Rather than thinking of organization as an imposed structure, plan or design, organization arises from the interactions of interdependent individuals who need to come together."

organization process structure agility flexibility information

  • The accumulating failures at organizational agility can be traced to a fundamental but mistaken assumption that organizations are structures guiding, and as a consequence, limiting interaction
  • It is not about hierarchies vs. networks, but about a much deeper change. Organizations are creative, responsive processes and emergent patterns in time. All creative, responsive processes have the capacity to constantly self-organize and re-organize all the time
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Apr
30
2012

"Social task management is getting a lot of press lately, and a number of vendors are adding the capability to their products. Unfortunately, there is some confusion about the difference between social task management and social project management. Hopefully this short post can help to clarify the differences."

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  • In short, social task management provides users to define a “to do list on steroids”, share/assign the list with others, and some provide the ability to define an ad hoc “workflow” to the tasks.
  • In contrast, social project management is the leveraging of the social network of an organization to deliver rigorous project more effectively and efficiently. (See here, and this series)
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Mar
24
2012

"Arnaud Gien-Pawlicki, responsable recrutement France de la DRH de l’Apec, détaille les compétences indispensables à la fonction RH telles qu’elles se dessinent aujourd’hui, et relève les tendances majeures des prochaines années."

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  • Il s’agit par exemple de gérer le décalage entre les directeurs opérationnels, centrés sur la performance à court-terme, et la vision long-terme impliquant l’employabilité des collaborateurs et l’adaptation de leurs savoir-faire
  • L’avènement de l’entreprise 2.0 collaborative se fait encore attendre, mais le DRH peut d’ores et déjà faciliter la coopération.
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Feb
15
2012

"Prescient Digital Media vient de produire une infographie mettent en valeur quelques données de sa dernière étude (Février 2012).

Quelques informations ont retenu notre attention :

seulement 9% des organisations ont mis en production un intranet social,

mais 78% d’entre-elles ont une stratégie de gouvernance et des règles qui s’appliquent aux contenus publiées et partagés,

et 61% utilisent au moins un “média social” dans l’intranet.

Pour 18% un frein important est le manque de support du C-Level à ces initiatives tandis que pour un nombre identique il y d’autres projets plus importants,

12% constatent que le manque de support des équipes IT nuit à ces projets et ils ont 10% à juger que le manque de règles (gouvernance) est un frein."

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Feb
14
2012

"es premiers résultats montrent que les modèles d’affaires peuvent aujourd’hui être l’objet d’un certain nombre de ruptures, mais aussi que le modèle de pilotage des processus de gouvernance, voire des formes de leadership dans l’entreprise, peuvent être largement impactées par l’irruption du numérique. Deux dimensions que l’on se propose de traiter, à la fois la stratégie et gouvernance"

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  • Pour ceux qui ne se souviennent plus, le management scientifique, c’est « Breakdown and Specialize », « je décompose et je spécialise »
  • La complication peut être attaquée par la réduction. La complexité, ce sont tous les liens qui font que l’on ne peut plus réduire. Dans le monde du 21ème siècle, on va devoir travailler autrement, on va devoir passer du compliqué au complexe.
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Feb
13
2012

"In my recent visit, I asked some of these questions and received the following response. “If our people have a new idea, we have a process for them to submit it.” This one statement told me quite a lot about this person’s perspective if not the perspective of the company."

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  • First, “IF our people have a new idea”… If? really? It should have been “when”. People are creative beings. If I respect that, I will expect them to have ideas…not be surprised when they do.

     

    Second, “we have a PROCESS”. If you want to take the wind out of the sails of a creative person, just introduce a “process”. Processes aren’t bad, but they infer a ‘one size fits all’ approach to any action. They make the idea become part of a transaction.

     

    Which brings me to “for them to SUBMIT it”. Just drop your idea into the process and then wait to see what happens. You submit payments…you submit actions to workflows…you don’t submit ideas. You share ideas.

"To deliver more value, the human resources function needs to spend more time accelerating operational improvement and less time on its traditional administrative and compliance activities. As Randy MacDonald, senior vice president of HR at IBM, told me, "It's important for HR to decide what is core and non-core. Administrative responsibilities such as getting paychecks out on time are not core. In HR, we need to focus on what is important.""

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  • To get the "people" part of process improvement right, HR needs employees who can go toe-to-toe discussing operational changes with line managers. HR professionals need credibility to challenge line managers on whether they are improving the attitudes and skills of their people at the same time they're redesigning their jobs.
  • Managers of HR administrative services such as payroll and benefits need to focus on running a consistent, reliable operation at low cost. To do this, they need standard, simple, automated procedures.
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"It has been said many times, that for social business to succeed to create the evolution towards Enterprise 2.0, we need to put this social activity directly into the flow of how people work. In that light, we spent quite some time at the recent Enterprise 2.0 Summit in Paris, discussing how to integrate social business activity into enterprise processes, and in particular from the view of process modeling."

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  • suggested the model in Figure 1 that illustrates social activity as something that occurs outside the process, where each process step may have an associated space for social interaction activity. My interpretation is that in this model, the social activity occurs outside the process step as an ancillary activity that the process step itself is unchanged but there is a documented link to the activity elsewhere.
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  • Modeling Enterprise Social Business Processes
  • Figure 2: A Second model
  • Figure 3: A Third model
  • Figure 4: A Fourth model

"“Can business processes and social media co-exist?” – This was one of the first big questions on day 2 of the Enterprise 2.0 Summit asked by Bertrand Duperrin from Nextmodernity and that question lead to a very interesting discussion of the role of social tools in the world of Business Process Management (BPM) – something that links nicely back to the theme from day 1 of harnessing the conversations taking place in the organization. Traditional BPM lack a proper feedback loop to ensure proper organizational learning, but if you intelligently integrate social tools, this gap may be filled."

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  • If you just add a social layer inside the processes, you may find yourself creating ‘social silos’ effectively working against the purpose you are trying to accomplish
  • If we are to succeed with more ‘social’ business processes, we simply MUST get out there and involve people – all people.
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Jan
31
2012

"Tibbr released version 3.5 to the public today in Palo Alto California, 9 AM Pacific time. I got a solo preview yesterday and I was impressed by it – as usual I’d say.
“In twelve months since launch, tibbr has been deployed to hundreds of thousands of employees across global enterprises, who can now use tibbr to unify people, data and businesses processes to get work done”"

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  • tibbr brings back the balance in our lives: after decades of automation and computerisation, some, if not most, of us have become slaves to the machine, walking the last mile from rule-based machines to exception-based humans
  • The fact that tibbr cut out the middle man, the data entry clerk, by enabling people to follow and directly subscribe to events themselves – people could pick the low-hanging fruits again
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Jan
30
2012

"Toujours en préambule du E2.0 Summit qui va se tenir à Paris les 7 et 8 février prochain, je vous propose une nouvelle interview d’un des intervenants principaux : Yves Caseau, le DGA de Bouygues Telecom en charge des technologies et de l’innovation dont je vous avais déjà parlé du livre (Un livre pour tout savoir sur la collaboration et le lean management).

Je vous livre ici une traduction de l’interview menée par l’organisateur de la conférence."

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  • L’objectif des initiatives d’Entreprise 2.0 vis à accélérer le processus de décision (pour faire face aux exigences de notre environnement compétitif), ceux-ci reposent sur une propagation rapide de l’information et sur la capacité à passer la bonne information à la bonne personne. Les pratiques « 2.0″ sont donc employées pour optimiser l’attention des collaborateurs et pour maximiser l’utilisation des talents.
  • La modularité est nécessaire au sein d’une organisation, 2.0 ou non. Je suis partisan d’une approche « fractale » où les pratiques de collaboration s(organisent autour de communautés de toute taille. Idéalement, on ne devrait pas abuser d’usages communautaires à l’échelle de l’entreprise. Il y a également un défi à éviter la sur-utilisation des outils de communication « 2.0″, à trouver la bonne culture de collaboration et définir les bonnes pratiques.
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Jan
26
2012

"Nous entendons régulièrement des oracles prédire que désormais, grâce à la magie du 2.0, le monde de l'entreprise ne sera plus jamais comme avant.

Dans cette nouvelle ère, les structures hiérarchiques s'estompent. Les collaborateurs contribuent spontanément à l'innovation grâce aux réseaux sociaux inter-entreprises (les RSE) et grâce à une nouvelle dynamique coopérative. L'intelligence collective se structure spontanément pour traiter des situations de plus en plus complexes. Les ressources de l'entreprise sont spontanément utilisées à bon escient pour traiter des cas de plus en plus complexes et des situations de plus en plus individuelles, c'est l'ère du « Complex Event Management » et du « Case Management ». Dans ce monde, le client s'exprime naturellement et cette expression est représentative de la pensée de tous. Dans ce monde, le client contribue spontanément, directement ou au travers de l'analyse de ses réactions, à la définition des nouvelles offres de produits et de services."

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  • L’écoute de ses clients sur Facebook, sur les forums, sur son propre site requiert la mise en place de dispositifs industriels pour s’assurer que les billets sont analysés, triés, et font l’objet d’un suivi quand cela est nécessaire (cela s’appelle un processus).
  • Les RSE ne sont efficaces que si l’entreprise met en place un dispositif motivant les collaborateurs de l’entreprise à contribuer, à partager (par exemple, demander à chaque fin de mission à un collaborateur de publier les enseignements d’un projet, de partager les connaissances acquises), à réagir.
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Nov
28
2011

"" Vous connaissez le trio infernal qui conduit les entreprises dans le mur, et en font perdre le contrôle ?"..." Ce sont les process, les indicateurs de performance ( les fameux KPI's), et les reportings"."

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  • les entreprises ont perdu le contrôle d'elles-mêmes, surtout celles qu'on appelle les grandes entreprises, les multinationales. Elles ont souvent détruit la confiance qui a assuré le succés initial de la plupart d'entre elles
  • Dès lors qu'elles souhaitent substituer à l'initiative, à la bonne volonté ou au sérieux de leurs salariés des processus et des contrôles renforcés, elles font passer un message clair de défiance et tout le monde le comprend ainsi".
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Oct
12
2011

"I have admired the capabilities within Socialtext for some time. It was one of the early enterprise 2.0 providers, well before the term was coined. They began with a wiki base and have added capability over time to build a comprehensive platform. A couple of years ago they added Socialtext Signals, one of the first enterprise micro-blogging tools. A wrote about them a year ago on this blog (see Socialtext Adds Micro-messaging and Goes Mobile). Recently, I spoke with their CEO, Eugene Lee, on their latest offerings."

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  • The platforms that Socialtext can easily integrate with include SharePoint and Salesforce.com. These are good choices. In my view SharePoint, and other document management systems, should be treated like other enterprise applications of record in the same way as an ERP or CRM system is being treated. Socialtext can then help increase engagement with these systems
  • Now you can bring issues form the CRM tool into Socialtext to generate more engagement and more focus
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Sep
30
2011

"I see gamification, dashboards and search as signs of enterprise failure!

There I said it, humbly.

They all signify a lack of process frameworks that can run the processes. And just to clarify, industrial processes are not the only processes, all we do is a process as in "steps of activities with a goal", and that should cover all that we do in organisations, in business, in enterprises. And for a process to happen, for flows to flow, one needs a framework, structured, flexible or manual. Just like water requires a riverbed or a pipeline. But if the framework is manual (bucket passing anyone? Monday morning meetings, budgets and reporting anyone?) then the creative value-creation work will suffer."

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  • The classic intrinsic rewards are "mastery, purpose and autonomy". Basic, always worked, hugely powerful. But these three intrinsic rewards requires a flow- or process framework that can run the processes in the background, otherwise most of the effort will go into making the flow flow, non-value creation, and that kills all three with a vengeance.
  • And therein lies the issue, if there is no "automatic" process framework - and there is only manual frameworks for knowledge work today; meetings, hierarchies, budgets, reports - then the intrinsic rewards are hard to attain if at all.
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Sep
26
2011

"I believe there's a real chance to address some long-standing social business challenges if we can work through and address these issues better than we have up until now.

Unfortunately, any progress will require connecting some technology thinking with some business thinking, which is the quintessential oil and water of the information technology divide. However, I believe we can now do this better than we ever could in the recent past and that a major opportunity lies ahead."

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  • 1. The requirement to connect social software with systems of record, productivity applications, and the local intranet, etc. This puts social tools where the most important enterprise data is today, and;
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  • Social Software As The Connective Fabric for Daily Work

"Yet, though C-level involvement is one of the single most effective ways to gain approval for the needed resources, functional cohesion, and organizational priority, it's also a good recipe for bottling up internal social media in a manner that ends up moving it through the traditional IT project machine. This oft-careworn process is usually a well-established -- and largely well-intentioned -- "sausage maker" for repeatably fielding new IT solutions in a linear and highly structured fashion (though it's showing serious signs of age.)"

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  • The nature of open-ended in this discussion is vital and nuanced. Social media finally thrived, most arguably through the rise of RSS, which created a sort of "Unix pipe" for the social world. This allowed the fragmented conversations of blogs to be perceived externally as single albeit decentralized conversations
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  • Three Dimensions of Social Business and Enterprise 2.0 Emergence
Sep
19
2011

"In looking at different definitions with different perspectives and a business lens, the one above made the most sense to me. After 16 months, it was time to revisit a diagram created for “A Guide to Understanding Social CRM”. I will not go so far as to call my earlier work wrong, naïve is a better descriptor. The evolution diagram contained my thought process at that time. Without over using the concept, my own thinking has evolved."

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  • For starters, the term ‘Social’ has become a blocker of progress. The attempted isolation of the social components from CRM do both concepts a disservice. The Social CRM discussion has pushed CRM into a bit of corner. How can a relationship exist without social elements?
    • We do not need to evolve to SCRM, we simply need to evolve CRM
    • To say that Social CRM means everyone is a bit over simplistic
    • While we would like to believe it is all about customer defined processes, it is not that simple
    • To believe that customers can set their own hours is great in theory, but let’s be real.
    • It is not simply about the number of channels, rather when and how people use the channels
    • The transaction will never go away, it needs to become a stop along the journey, somewhere near the middle.
    • CRM does need to become outside in, but it does not need to become Social CRM in order to get there.
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