But ‘Enterprise 2.0’ is nothing without the cultural level. Let’s be clear about it: if the introduction of new tools brings in new ways of doing things, it does not necessarily change the whole thing. For those who have social computing as a living (on top of as a way of life), it is obvious […]

When it comes to defining knowledge, it really is easy to have a hard time, because there are different ways of understanding it.
 
There is a natural confusion between data, information and knowledge.
Data is
1) a factual information (as measurements or statistics) used as a basis for reasoning, discussion, or calculation;
2) an information output by a sensing […]

I already had the opportunity to share my view on this topic in a past blog post @ Headshift.
The simple argument is that, because social computing is about situational, group-oriented, user-centric, functionally simple tools, there is no need to venture into complicated a priori evaluation. Simply because compared with ‘traditional’ systems the risk is way […]

Organisations keep on being represented as a whole by organisation charts. Organisation charts traditionally reflect the top-down, silo-based side of the organisation. This is another reductionism that is being confused with simplicity. We all know that it does not reflect reality but authority. That’s only a piece of the cake.
 
On the other end, it is […]

Management is very keen to trends and fashions, exactly like the fashion industry. For example, one day it’s trendy to do knowledge management, the other it is to do Enterprise 2.0. What is important is not to really understand what’s behind but apply ideas the same way as they were successfully applied in a different […]