by Olivier Amprimo - 01/22/2009 - Estimated read times for this article: 1 mins. 43 secs.

I had the opportunity during my last visit to Obamalandia to buy “Inside Drucker’s Brain” by Jeffrey A. Krames.
This compact book was appealing to me. I like Drucker’s work, even if I think some of his opinions are debatable. The cover of the book was full of comments of respectable people claiming how good the […]

by Olivier Amprimo - 01/22/2009 - Estimated read times for this article: 4 mins. 21 secs.

During my PhD, I focussed on the required elements for managing in a knowledge economy.
My initial assumption was that one cannot manage an organisation with recipes from the 20’s or the 50’s because at that time the economy was different: physicallity (not knowledge) was proeminent. This has given me the opportunity to venture into many […]

by Olivier Amprimo - 01/17/2009 - Estimated read times for this article: 2 mins. 24 secs.

Fred Cavazza on its Enterprise 2.0 blog recently advertised Groupwise by Novell. While presenting it as a collaborative tools Fred makes a distinction that Novell overlooks: collaboration and participation. Confusing collaboration and participation is a marketing strategy. Most major enterprise software editors use it to take advantage of the buzz of Enterprise 2.0. They use […]

by Olivier Amprimo - 01/15/2009 - Estimated read times for this article: 1 mins. 49 secs.

I’ve just had the opportunity to read “Millennials at work - perspectives from a new generation“, a report from PWC, thanks to the BoostZone Institute.
In case you have no time to read it, here is a good summary. Read it. I have no opportunity to go through its methodology but it makes sense.
At a personal […]