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05:07 PM ~ 9 Comments

Using Enterprise 2.0 to prepare for recovery (II)

The best companies, like General Electric and McKinsey, accelerate innovation during recessions. They know that their people have a little more time to think, and they encourage them to think boldly and creatively. Tom Davenport (cited in Whatever-Company’s whitepaper on “Using Enterprise 2.0 for recovery”)
Intellectual capital, the intangible resource that comes from your workers, from [...]

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08:13 PM ~ 4 Comments

Open and sustainable innovation

Following up the discussion triggered by our previous post on Enterprise 2.0 for recovery (soon a second part on our whitepaper on the issue), a word that’s key to understanding what businesses, professionals and companies need to elbow their way in current market jungle has finally showed up: innovation.
Innovation, imho, happens when by facing whichever [...]

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12:25 PM ~ 17 Comments

Using Enterprise 2.0 to prepare for recovery (I)

“If you don’t change, you can become extinct”
This quote doesn’t come from Darwin’s The Origin of Species… but from the contemporary and more profane fable Who Moved My Cheese by Spencer Johnson.
This morning I had breakfast reading an angry comment by some shoe store owner on the Facebook page of a shoe manufacturer because the [...]

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