Vi ho accennato qualche giorno fa dell’evento che si terrà a Milano sul tema dell’Enterprise 2.0. Ho avuto la possibilità di intervistare Bertrand Duperrin, uno degli speaker del keynote, che affronterà questo tema concentrandosi sull’innovazione grazie alle conversazioni: Bringing conversations into processes to get the most out of your human capital.
Ecco qui il botta e risposta che abbiamo avuto:
Hi Bertrand,
Let’s try to have a nice interview about social media and enterprise..
1. What’s yours personal definition of Enterprise 2.0 in fews words?
Not that easy since it’s a global new approach to organization and there are so many points of entry depending on the person in charge. So if we want a comprehensive definition we need to be as systemic and global as possible. So, let’s try :
E2.0 is a set of technologies, organization and management practices that help organization to make the post of their human and knowledge capital in order to execute/deliver processes and activities in the most efficient way.
2. Do you think Enterprise 2.0 will be more and more accessible for not big companies or is all about culture?
E2.0 has first began to be implemented in large organizations for many reasons :
- they precisely suffer from the diseases e2.0 is supposed to cure
- they have time and money to invest in things that are not mainstream. They need experiment things behorehand because their size makes change hard to implement, so they need to start discovering things early even if it’s on a small scale.
Smaller businesses have also began to harness the power of e20 but we talk less about it. Maybe because that’s less impressive, because people only pay attention to large biz cases.
Culture matters too, for both small and large organizations. But I seems that there’s a difference between large and small biz :
- for experimentations : large biz needs someone who want to try (at any level), small biz need their CEO to have the right mindset because they delegate less.
- for implementation : culture matters a lot, regardless to the size of the company.
3. Can We continue to make difference between internal and external communication in a social media age?
Of course. Goals are not the same, risks are different, and not the same people are in charge. Let me also add that tools may be different too : even if it’s possibile to hos everything on a single plateform there are many reasons not to do it (security etc… are not trivial when you are a large bank or are involved in militatry industry for instance). It also depends what “external” is about : B2C communication, B2B collaboration…not the same solution applies to both cases.
Maybe things will change with time but it will be a matter of decades and neither everything has to be in the cloud nor being hosted on the company’s infrastructure. It’s a matter of balance even if the ratio may change in the future.
I’m not saying that a wall has to exist between external and internal. Practices, strategies and tools may differ but they have to be linked, both in the way people work and the way social platforms communicate together. I think the the next challenge is not to unify everything but to build the right bridges where it makes sense.
4. What’s the role of employees in a enterprise 2.0 as avangelist?
It depends on what the company expects from them, on how they trust their employees for such a big change program. In my opinion
- use the tools in an exemplary way
- teach their colleagues how to use them (and most of all, what to use them for)
- demonstrate some early “quick wins”
But they should also have a role toward the organization
- bring feedbacks to improve tools, change program etc…
- be an echo chamber that helps to improve and refine the project
- use the change management team to build use cases that make sense
5. Is Co-creation the future of social media marketing (inside and outside the enterprise)?
It’s not only the future of social media marketing, it’s the future of social media…and the future of business.
By co-creation I mean
- co-creation of course
- co-ideation, co-invention
- co-problem solving
- co non-creation
. I know that sounds surprising but it means that employees (or even external people) help people not to reinvent the wheel by leading them to the right information…
6. Is ROI really important inside the enterprise? What’s ROI for you?
ROI is important because you have to tell what you plan to do with the money that’s not yours. I often laugh when I see people saying “the ROI question sucks in the workplace” and asking their children “you want me to give you 5 euros ? What are you going to do with it ?”.
What is sure is that the ROI of social media and every related initiative differs from the usual definition because we cant’ apply something that has been designed for repeatable tasks to something activities that are all about unrepeatable things, that are about managing exceptions.
I don’t know if a perfect definition exists. Here’s mine (you’re lucky…I was working on it today and I’ll elaborate on my blog in a few weeks).
In this context, ROI is the improvement of any processus or activity’s performance obtained by using social software and implementing new management practices, in terms of
- speed
- scalability
- quality
The missing question : is there an european specificy ?
Of course. I talked a lot about that with people like Bjorn Negelmann (Germany), Emanuele Quintarelli (Italyà or Luis Suarez (spain). We all say the same : “it works differently here”. I’m sure that each european country is different but we also share some common points if we compare to the US or even the UK.
There’s an underlying idea in the e2.0 concept as well as in adoption methodologies in the US : positive thinking. Some european countries (and most of all France…) are rather rational-skeptics. That does not mean that e2.0 won’t work here but that we need to find our own way to make it work, our own levers and make it senseful in the european mindset. (Have a look here : http://www.duperrin.com/english/2010/03/16/is-enterprise-2-0-possible-without-positive-thinking/).
About Bertrand Duperrin:
Betrand Duperrin Consultant at Nextmodernity
Bertrand Duperrin, Consultant at Nextmodernity, carries out consultancy missions in the field of management, information, and communication technologies. His career began in a HR and management consultancy where he mainly focused on collaboration issues. He joined blueKiwi Software in 2006, in the first days of the company’s operations. At blueKiwi, Bertrand structured the consulting/services activity in the field of enterprise social networks. He was a pioneer in the French market; one of the first to lead such projects for large businesses.
He joined Nextmodernity in January 2010. Bertrand led the premier enterprise 2.0 project in a major French company, at Dassault Systemes, in the beginning of 2006. From there, he has led strategic projects for customers like BNP Paribas, Groupe La Poste (French postal services), and Finaref. His goals: to make social networks serve organizational performance and value creation in such domains as innovation, sales performance, or collective efficiency.
He shares his thoughts on the above issues on his blog (http://www.duperrin.com in french and http://www.duperrin.com/english in english). Bertrand has also given presentations recently at a number of industry events, including Webcom (Montreal), the Enterprise 2.0 Summit (Frankfurt), and the Enterprise 2.0 Forum (Paris).
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