Organisational change
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Why We Need Big Organizations - The Big Shift - HarvardBusiness.orgWe believe big institutions will become more relevant than ever--once they focus not just on efficiency but on providing platforms for individuals to systematically experiment, learn, and innovate. As scalable learning replaces scalable efficiency big institutions will become more appealing to ...
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Gary Hamel: Unshackling Employees from Head Office Control - Gary Hamel’s Management 2.0 - WSJIn a recent post I promised that I’d lay out a blueprint for building a company that’s as nimble as change itself—and I will, but first I’d like to share an anecdote about a simple experiment in workplace freedom. In most organizations, the decision-making freedoms of frontline employees are ...
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Enterprise 2.0: The Kumbaya irony | IT Leadership | TechRepublic.comEnterprise 2.0 suggests a network of organizational activities involving collaboration, cooperation, and engagement as part of a broader ethos of social interaction in business. Professor Andrew McAfee, formerly of Harvard Business School and currently with MIT, coined the phrase Enterprise 2.0. ...
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Enterprise 2.0 - Enter the dark force - The Xpragmatic ViewMore than ever, Enterprise 2.0 is the talk of the town. However, the discussion remains difficult due to a continuing bias towards tools and technology. Therefore, an attempt for a real look at the internals of Enterprise 2.0, the dark forces of collaboration.
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Social media on the inside - KnowledgeBoardSocial media on the inside Social media on the inside Social media is most transformative when used inside the company, says Web 2.0 expert Leon Benjamin - and the implications are far reaching... Are customers suffering from ‘work rage’? This phenomenon hit the news as far back as 2001 ...
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Thoughts on Enterprise 2.0 and Corporate Culture Change « Mark Bower’s BlogEnterprise 2.0 technologies enable people who are doing the “real” work within organizations to bypass their middle management and connect and collaborate with each other directly as well as update and engage upper management directly. By cutting out middle management, the savings are not only ...
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A Good Way to Change a Corporate Culture - Peter Bregman - HarvardBusiness.orgA Good Way to Change a Corporate Culture "I'd like to talk to you about a big project," the woman told me on the phone. "We need to change our culture." She was a senior leader in a professional services firm, where people really are their most important asset. Only it turns out the people ...
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Is the Corporate Structure Obsolete? | The Ingenesist ProjectIs the Corporate Structure Obsolete? The Social Media Production System Social Media has demonstrated in many ways capable of meeting or exceeding the deliverable output of many traditional industries such as advertising, marketing, journalism, human resources, design, community organizing, ...
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The Case for Constructive Capitalism - Umair Haque - HarvardBusiness.orgThe Case for Constructive Capitalism "Gas-guzzling S.U.V.'s, cigarette boats, no-income mortgages and private jets should be relegated to the junk heaps of history, or better yet, put in a museum dedicated to never forgetting the greed and avarice that led us so far astray." Who wrote this ...
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The Return of the Non-Virtual Organization - Tom Davenport - HarvardBusiness.orgI can't tell you how many companies I have worked with that have encouraged or tolerated a large degree of geographic dispersal among employees and management teams. "We're virtual, and proud of it," one told me. "It doesn't matter where you live anymore," many employees of virtualized companies ...
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