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| Edito, par Dominique Turcq | 
| LISTENING
There are several paradoxes in the current overload of information showering on us everyday, from twitter to RSS to mail to alerts on discussions we are part of, to news, etc.
The first paradox is that we feel overwhelmed while for most of it, this information overload's main culprit is us because we are at the origin of the subscriptions.
The second is that in a world of information most "senders" have not yet understood the minimum etiquette that consists in not communicating if one has nothing to communicate (my grand mother told me to turn my tongue seven times in my mouth before speaking, the habit is lost even by quite prominent personalities, Twitter just makes them look often ridiculous).
This happens with Tweets, with mail, with Blogs (why do so many bloggers feel obliged to write every day or more! Do they really think they have something interesting to share every day? Or do they really mess up quantity with quality?), and with most forums. The mail, after about 20 years of diffusion, is not yet well understood by most users and we all tend to use the CC too extensively. The other social media are more richer than mail and are therefore more potentially intrusive. The future of information overload looks bright.
The third is more subtle but more profound. Most of the progress in understanding any situation is made via listening, thinking, synthesizing, contributing or acting on the situation. When we suffer from this overload, we may listen well (although it is highly debatable) but can we think? Can we make any sense of these flows? Can we really contribute? Can we act? If not, we all waste our time and we help others lose their time too.
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| Les Evolutions de l'Institut Boostzone | 
| This quarterly newsletter also aims at informing you about the evolution of the Institute.
The Séminaire is a success with an interesting number of themes that will be worked on all along the academic year. Thanks to a generous sponsorship from Manpower France, this seminar is free for members.
The Training Program for Corporate Collaboration (it has a much better code name but we keep it secret for a while) exclusively dedicated to help executives learn how to collaborate with the new tools (and the old ones) is getting prepared with a senior team. It should be ready at the end of the Winter, sorry for those having already asked for it.
The Fellows have started, after they got the blessing from the Scientific Committee, to publish on the public site www.boostzone.fr. They are asked not to publish more than once or twice a month, you can keep your RSS on, you will not be spammed.
The Scientific Committee members have worked on the Fellow nomination and will soon be asked to work on some research projects that are being elaborated during the Séminaire. They prove very helpful in guiding the Institute in order for it to stay on track with corporate preoccupations.
The BestOf are starting to come fresh from the press, they will help the Members reach very quickly a common platform of knowledge or of understanding on a number of elements like the BestOf case studies in NCM implementation, or on the corporate usages of Twitter or Linkedin.
The BestOf are the beginning of a publication dimension the Institute is taking . We are seriously thinking of becoming an editor of works dedicated to the world of work, the evolution of a connected society and to the Network Centric Management. Several Doctor thesis are already on the potential list as well as a book on the future of the world of work.
The closed community, Le Cercle, is reasonably active i.e. does not spam the members but gives them a continuous flow of useful information and provides them with a regular series of discussion topics like recently on the reality of crowd sourcing.
The Workshops are regularly full and allow to dig in depth with a number of concepts and practical issues. Summaries are made on Le Cercle and on the public site. In some cases some internal groups are being formed to pursue the discussion.
We still keep a program of "Events" i.e. more along a conference format than a workshop format but we try to keep it to a minima unless we have really something original and useful to say….
Dominique Turcq |
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| Presence, the next life changer
By Cécile Demailly When the Internet started in the 80's, globalization was unheard of and those working in international organizations were not "connected" across frontiers and seas. Open questions - fewer at that time - were solved by asking nearby in the same office, floor, building or restaurant. Twenty years later, technology has made everything faster and everyone closer; to keep a business among the leaders, collaboration is a must, real time, across distance and frontiers.
Instant messaging (IM) arrived in the early 90's as an engineer's gadget, and was rapidly adopted as a business tool. Simple, practical, ergonomic, cheap, it allows us to see who is ‘on' and pass short messages that don't need the formality of an email nor the interruption of a phone call. You may use AIM, Google Talk, ICQ, Jabber, MSN Messenger, Office Live Messenger, Reuters Messaging, Sametime, Skype, Yahoo Messenger or many others including in-house versions, or a mix of those through aggregators such as Pidgin or Trillian [...]
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| Réseau et organisation: n'oubliez jamais la valeur du contact en face-à-face,
By Martin de Waziers
Trois mouvements se sont récemment précipités:
1. de l'agriculture à l'industrie et au savoir,
2. du vertical au transversal et au matriciel, et
3. de l'information à la communication et au partage.
On n'a rien inventé mais seulement généralisé la pratique du réseau… 1. Sans les outils pour faciliter cette transition, on resterait à l'âge tribal, réseau par excellence! Il suffit de se souvenir du premier outil de "bip social" qui permettait d'invoquer sa "tribu".
2. Sans les enfants pour nous montrer l'exemple avec MSN puis maintenant FaceBook, on ne serait peut-être pas aussi poussés à prendre au sérieux cette évolution, et la convoitise attise son utilisation.
3. Sans le besoin que nous avons de conserver le lien social, mis à mal par des vies trépidantes qui nous laissent de moins en moins de temps, on se passerait peut-être de tout cela [...]
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| Rypple : le 360° feed-back pour tous
By Olivier Zara Vous connaissez le 360° feed-back ? Il s'agit d'un processus d'évaluation des compétences piloté par l'entreprise à partir d'un référentiel de compétences défini par l'entreprise. Cela peut servir pour détecter les hauts-potentiels ou pour évaluer les résultats sur le mode entretien annuel d'évaluation.
Rypple est un service proposant un système de feed-back auto-géré.
Voici quelques textes extraits de leur site pour comprendre le système
De quoi s'agit-il ?
"Rypple is built on the belief that feedback leads to success. Some of the best habits of successful people are built into Rypple. Frequent requests for honest, direct feedback; quick, regular 1-on-1 conversations; and real actions based on this feedback that leads to constant improvement…and success! [...]
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Nos Evénements |
| | | Nos événements récents ou en préparation : | | | | |  Séminaire : "Les mots du net qui changent les mots de l'entreprise"
(réservé aux membres)
| | | | | Atelier : " La nouvelle mobilité, la révolution dans la poche: quels enjeux pour les individus, l'entreprise, le travail ?" | | | | | Séminaire : "Les acteurs et le système": qui définit les règles du jeu? quelles gouvernances? quelles règles en fonction de l'environnement?r
(réservé aux membres) | | | | | | Evénements externes à venir ou récents : | | | | | Les rencontres du e-learning et de la formation mixte
Atelier : quel retour sur investissement pour le mix learning ?
Atelier animé par Pierre Prével, Responsable Innovation et Technologies RH & Knowledge Management,CREDIT AGRICOLE SA
voir le programme...
| | Nous participerons aux réunions d'un nouveau groupe mis en place par le CERI - Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales, dépendant du CNRS et de Sciences Po - sur le programme OMER (Observatoire Mondial des Enjeux et des Risques) et se concentrant sur la prospective stratégique et géo-stratégique. | | | | | Les Carrefours Innovation du Management
Cercle de Prospective RH | | | | | The Indian Way of Management | | | | |
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Lettre Trimestrielle
Numéro 7 - Q4 2009
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