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- Even if you are not necessarily a military fan, it is evident that DoD (US Department of Defense, may be the bigger worldwide purchaser ) plays an important role in definition of standards, in rationalization of IT. (Cals, Step, CMMI, ...). This Dod article about processes gives interesting views about defining roles, within an ERP implementation challenge, for Business Process Owners, separating clearly management responsibilities and technical responsibilities.... - About the remanent strategic al ...

- Is KM enabling more automated decisions ? This "old", very good level and still stimulating article on "nonsense of KM", can bring some ideas, with good thinking about what is really tacit knowledge, and a synthesis of a lot of point of views. Nice commentary on it too... - Sharing calendars and schedule is a good metaphor of som KM challenges - In the real life, what can be one's personal "rules" for KM? You can apply those one (but who does?) So much ...

No doubt information and communication technologies, as a major media, can create emotions, through messages, chatting, music and video, ... But can computer software detect and understand your emotions, and answer to them. Are we, after all those years, close enough from "artificial intelligence" ? A lot of new experiments these days on that, from neural networks to telephones.... All the chatterbots are trying too the same kind of things from basic Cybelle to sophisticated A.L.I. ...

J'était hier à une très stimulante réunion, rassemblant les penseurs avancés (et multi-disciplinaires) français dans le domaine du Marketing . (Au fait, ne manquez pas le site visionnarymarketing , tout y est bon et sensé, jetez un oeil au dossier Marketing des produits ICT , au blog bien vivant...) Allez donc voir aussi ce site de base sur votre nécessaire bibliothèque de base !!! La discussion d'hier aurait bien mérité un " bribecast ". Parmi les sujets de discu ...

After conducting this test (takes 5 minutes for the first test..), I must admit I am a typical procrastinator (but maybe you are too...) (I defer very important thinks to do, creating permanent stress for myself...). I like this article and formula on the topic. It is surely too late for me to change !! My permanent auto-justification is the fact I consider not doing things (at the end, I do some things...) is a way to unconsciously regulate myself, to leave non evident priorities/urgencies emer ...

Created at the beginning of 90's, Mass Customization is still a heavy trend of the future: How can a company can offer the high quality/low cost/fast delivery product and service to the market, and, at the same time, customize it perfectly for the client? How can we play simultaneously a cost strategy and a differentiation strategy? (french readers can look there to read a short contribution on role of time in MC...) You will find, in this recent update on the topic : Page 5: A ver ...

IT ROI, again, a nice contribution with 3 categories of funding for IT applications Stimulating article from McKinsey, on the old problem of relation of IT department with silos. This split inside IT between "IT demand" and "IT supply" is a (non perfect!) solution. That clarifies too the business owner location, treats better alignment challenges... En France, les notions de Maître d'ouvrage (dans les silos), de Maître d'ouvrage délégué (souvent dans les fonctions in ...

Good News: Knowledge Management still alive. In spite of vendors appropriation of KM logo ( just type "Knowledge Management" on Google and you will find 90% of the connected sites are selling something, products, tools, consulting, ....), fundamentals of KM are surviving. Recent contributions: - Relation of KM with semantic web and web2 (with this permanent problem of the balance between "coding the world" and creativity freedom!). See too that nice reaction on this top ...

a recent contribution with some good references...

Must management concept be seriously treated? Real world modelization is useful. It is good to reflect real thoughts by concepts and frameworks. But where is the limit between ready to use, "gadget" concepts and real thinking? Just look at this site . Not so bad, but .... Let's take, as a basic example, the famous overused BCG growth/share matrix . We can go further on that on wikipedia , with a bit more in-depth approach. Look at this one * ( I really like this second de ...

Long time ago, in the 80's, I was already, as quality director for Sales in IBM France, deeply involved in processes. At that time, IBM Quality Director, Gilbert Stora*, previously Director of a Manufacturing plant lab, used to say: "Manufacturing processes are OK to control, Administrative processes too, but Commercial processes are too "artistic" to be managed and treated the same way..." This publication of IBM is reflecting, 20 years after, the same thought, with some adva ...

A lot of informations recently published on this theme. What are the "new" issues and opportunities for CIO's ? Let's take a quote from this one Ovum analysts say in their Summit Seven predictions. "Virtualization, service-oriented architecture, management automation and integrated workflow tools will increasingly be coupled with externally provided software-as-a-service (SaaS), utility computing, business process outsourcing and other network-hosted applications and busin ...

Look at this nice contribution , insisting on the fact processes are first and IT projects are just after. The last sentences about Toyota sounds nice ! but.... all that concerns organization improvement and optimization. What about innovations coming from synergy between: creative new ideas of new services + use of emerging technologies to protect these ideas ? ...

Je viens de tomber à nouveau sur la version électronique du bouquin de base de JL Le Moigne . Ce fut pendant des années ma bible en systémique. A lire et à relire! Pensez aussi à aller de temps en temps sur le site " Modelisation de la Complexité " (Morin, Le Moigne, ...) Tout y est bon! In good "system theory" electronic books, you can too read with profit "Le Macroscope" de Joel de Rosnay , dans sa version anglaise ...

Le site de Michel Volle est toujours passionant ! On trouve ici une bonne synthèse de Cobit , dynamique clé de la gouvernance IT dans les entreprises. Cobit a pour moi comme grande valeur ajoutée d'appliquer les concepts processus à l'informatique. On peut néanmoins regretter que Cobit n'insiste pas sur le besoin, à un instant donné, de prioriser ces processus (tout en étant tous utiles, ils ne sont pas tous aussi stratégiques à un instant donné pour une informatique). Pour les ...

Dans cet article t rès simple du journal du net , on peut lire entre les lignes un débat central toujours renouvellé. L'adoption de progiciels implique d'adapter son entreprise aux règles implicites contenues dans le logiciel. C'est un changement majeur, modification des philosophies des processus, des cultures des acteurs, ...etc... C'est une problématique clé de "change management". L'autre scénario est d'adapter son progiciel (et il ne suffit pas de paramétre ...

For those who have time to surf, or need special data, this list is exciting I am a user of a lot of these, my current favorites are Google Labs, Answers, LII, Wikipedia, Gutenberg, ScienceDaily, Google maps.... For my MIB students and their marketing plans, look at bplans.com !! Add your own relevant findings! ...

On a permanent never-achieved theme (alignment), some reemphasis on this key concept

Bon article de synthèse sur des "technologies" clés à court terme. Il faut le lire. Quelques commentaires spontanés: 1) Open Source: OK bonne analyse 2) Virtualisation: évident, mais (très) vieux concept, perpétuellement renouvellé En 1975 (!!??) , j'écrivais, un article IBM "La virtualisation, pourquoi faire?", dont une "joke" a toujours son sens aujourd'hui: "Etre transparent, c'est exister et ne pas se voir, Etre virtuel, c'est ne pas ...

As you know, I am an old fan of social networks, those kind of exciting dynamically reconfigurable links between people, ideas, .... But these networks change really the meaning of the word "friendship", with as usual the first circle of intimate friends, but too a lot of rings of "friends". This article ( you will find there a french synthesis) is key to understand some aspects of this move from groups (forums, ...) to egocentric networks, with a lot of consequences. I ju ...

So much information, and so limited ability of human mind to absorb it! (think about "short term memory" limitations....) Good stimulating article in CIO magazine , to re-think on this topic

A clear exec summary about ECM. But ... semantic point of view is not really considered, nor relation with key KM isssues, like willingness to share or protect knowledge... "Enterprise content management (ECM) has grown into a major software category through the consolidation of different point solutions, including document management, Web content management, document imaging, records management, and digital asset management -- and a close alignment with collaboration and business process ma ...

This recent article is stimulating, to reemphasize on the basics of "semantics" (ontologies, ...), and to think about relations between information and knowledge. It shows again the close relation beetween moving to semantics and the need of standards (with, as always, the fact that a standard implies a "point of view" , and so, "political" issues ...) ...