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The Boostzone Institute WEB REVIEW N°9. October 2011
«We’re not as close to the grave as we thought»The response of a centenarian about Internet
Source: Facebook for Centenarians: Senior Citizens Learn Social Media, The Atlantic, August 31, 2011
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Summary
Major trends in a globalized world- The transnational super network.............................p.2- Are millennials the first post-consumer generation ?.p.2- The freelance surge is the industrial revolution of our time.....................................................................p.2 - Petite Poucette, la génération mutante...................p.2
Corporate and social environmental responsability - Can Jeremy Grantham profit from ecological mayhem?....................................................................................p.3- What is resilience ?...................................................p.3
Management in the future world of work- Les forces armées : source d’inspiration pour la stra-tégie d’entreprise........................................................p.3- 5 inquiétantes singularités du management français................................................................................p.3- Management, les maux pour le dire........................p.3- The myth of performance metrics..........................p.4
Enterprise 2.0 and mobile enterprise- A collection of 50+ enterprise 2.0 case studies..p.4
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- Social power and the coming corporate revolution.p.4
Internet and social networks- Commotion, le projet d’un Internet hors de tout contrôle............................................................p.4- The Internet of things will dwarf the Internet of people.p.4- Des joueurs en ligne résolvent l’une des énigmes du virus du sida...............................................................p.5- State of the media : The social media report by Nielsen............................................................p.5
Personal and brand online reputation and influence- Tips to defend your digital reputation................p.5- The myth of reputation............................................p.5
Personal development and learning- Deloitte bets big on informal, social learning......p.5- Why diverse viewpoints are critical in dealing with complexity.........................................................p.5
More notable links................................p.6
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Editorial
«The computer class was the best thing I’d done since my husband died» «We feel like we’ve joined the human race». These are two answers given by persons who have been asked what learning the Internet had changed their lives. These type of class was offered on an american retirement house to groups whose ave-rage age was 82 years. A study to come shows a 30% decrease in depressive symptoms in this population.
«Les cours d’informatique sont la meilleure chose qu’il me soit arrivée depuis que mon mari est décédé», «nous avons le sentiment de rejoindre de nouveau l’Humanité». Voici deux réponses faites par des personnes auxquelles on a demandé ce que l’apprentissage d’Internet avait changé dans leur vie. Les cours en question ont été dispensés dans une maison de retraite américaine à des groupes dont la moyenne d’âge était de 82 ans. Une étude a paraître montre une baisse de 30% des symptômes dépressifs sur ce type de population.
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Majors Trends in the Globalized World
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The transnational super networkFuture Journalism Project, Michael Cervieri,
September 7, 2011
Nobody denies that financial institutions establish contracts with several other institutions. This allows them to diversify risk, but also exposes them to conta-gion. This recent paper from Swiss economists studies global ownership structures and “network” influence of the world’s biggest companies. They find which orga-nization is connected to which other organization, and what the ownership and influence structure is between them. A tightly-knit “super-entity” of 147 companies controls 40% of the network’s transnational corpora-tions. Not surprising are the implications such a tight network has on global financial stability.
Are millennials the first post-consumergeneration ?
World Furute Society, James Lee, September 12, 2011
Twenty years ago, Generation X graduated during what was a comparatively soft recession in the early 90′s. Nowadays, the Millennial generation faces the dual challenge of a weak labor market combined with competitive educational standards. A recent study shows that one out of every three Americans between 18 and 29 are either choosing not to work or are loo-king for a paying job, but cannot find one. This article explains why the Millennials have been the first gene-ration to adjust their long-term economic expectations: they have figured out that “access” often makes more sense than “ownership”, particularly since “ownership” often translates into “debt”.
The freelance surge is the industrialrevolution of our time
The Atlantic, Sara Horowitz, September 1, 2011
It’s been called the e-conomy, with the «e» standing for electronic, entrepreneurial, or perhaps eclectic. Everywhere we look, we can see the U.S. workforce undergoing a massive change. Today, careers consist of piecing together various types of work, juggling multiple clients, learning to be marketing and accoun-ting experts and creating offices in co-working spaces. Independent workers abound. And many of them love it. This article explains why those trends will have an enormous impact on our economy and society.
Petite Poucette, la génération mutanteLibération, Pascale Nivelle, 3 Septembre 2011
Michel Serres, 81 ans, philosophe, historien, homme de lettres, montre dans cette interview toute sa bien-veillance envers la jeune génération, l’un de ses su-jets de prédilection dans son observation des trans-formations du monde et des Hommes.Il réclame l’indulgence pour cette génération qui doit tout réinventer dans un monde bouleversé par les nouvelles technologies et qu’il a baptisé «Petite Pou-cette» pour sa propension à envoyer des messages et communiquer avec son pouce.Il expose également des transformations majeures de la société comme la désuétude des institutions, de l’appartenance culturelle ou ethnique, l’allongement de la vie,... qui conduisent à l’une des questions phi-losophiques la plus importante à ces yeux: Comment l’Occident s’adaptera au monde qu’il a engendré ?
Management, les maux pour le direCeras Project, Vincent de Gaulejac, Spetmbre 2011
Voici un entretien avec Vincent de Gaulejac, Profes-seur de sociologie qui étudie le travail à l’Université Paris 7 Denis Diderot. Pour lui, le travail engendre un grand malaise car les gens ne comprennent plus le sens de ce qu’on leur demande de faire. Cela est la conséquence d’une révolution managériale, initiée dans les multinationales puis généralisée à partir des années 80 qui tente de rendre utile et produc-tive l’énergie du travailleur. Elle lui propose de devenir excellent et de se réaliser en véhiculant l’idée que sa réussite et celle de l’entreprise vont de pair.En faisant se déplacer la lutte des classes à la lutte des places, la conflictualité se déplace du niveau so-cial (grèves, manifestation,...) au niveau psychique et psychosomatique (la souffrance au travail).
Corporate Social and Environmental Responsability
Management in the Future World of Work
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Can Jeremy Grantham profit from ecological mayhem?The New York Times, Carlo Rotella, August 11, 2011
Energy will give us serious problems over the next years as we make the transition from hydrocarbons to solar, wind and other sources, but we’ll muddle through to a solution to Peak Oil and related challenges. This article shows Jeremy Grantham, founder of the asset-management firm GMO, as a guard of the biodiversity. Grantham has often been early, the besetting sin of the value investor. Sounding the alarm and bailing out well before the peak of one bubble after another has cost him profits and clients. But if he’s right again and early again in identifying rising commodity prices as not just another bubble but as a paradigm shift with far-reaching consequences“But it’s never absolutely too late,” Grantham said. “It’s never too late to do what we can,” which includes making a lot of money you can use to try to protect whatever and whoever mat-ters to you, biodiversity, family, nation, everybody.
What is resilience ?Global Dashboard, September 24, 2011
Resilience and crises were the epicenter of a confe-rence convened by the Development Studies Associa-tion and European Association of Development Insti-tutes. Wellbeing is a dynamic process with material (what people have), relational (what people are able to do) and subjective (how people feel) dimensions. These dimensions are interlinked, co-evolving and fluid. This article from Global Dashboard explains why by looking through these three, interrelated lenses of wellbeing, it is possible to start to make sense of the complexities of vulnerability and risk in a volatile and less predictable world.
Les forces armées : source d’inspiration pour la stratégie d’entreprise
Geo-stratégie, Antoine Villain, 17 Août 2011
La stratégie d’entreprise est l’héritière de la straté-gie militaire (planification rigoureuse, économie des moyens, mobilité des forces en présence, efficacité et impératif de résultat). L’armée depuis une décennie s’est tournée vers un nouveau mode d’organisation collaboratif appelé «Network Centric Warfare».
5 inquiétantes singularités du management français
Gestion des risques culturels, Benjamin Pelletier, 16 Spetmbre 2011
Eurofund, une agence d’étude de l’Union Européenne sur les conditions de vie et de travail dans les pays européens met à disposition des données sur l’évo-lution du monde du travail entre 1991 et 2010 dans l’UE. Benjamin Pelletier, rédacteur du blog «Ges-tion des risques interculturels» et formateur dans ce domaine, extrait 5 graphiques qui, selon lui, révèlent certaines particularités dont la prise en compte est souvent négligée, avec des incidences aussi bien pour les travailleurs français que pour les expatriés travaillant en France.
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Enterprise 2.0 and Mobile Enterprise
Internet and Social Networks
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The myth of performance metricsHarvard Business Review, Dick Grote,
September 12, 2011
In order for an appraisal to be objective, assessors must have quantifiable metrics to support their assess-ment judgment. This is a belief that gets in the way of managers when they evaluate performance. That’s just not true; the fairness requirement doesn’t mean that you’re restricted only to using quantitative, nume-rical metrics in making your assessment. This article from the HBR shows us why insisting that there must be quantifiable metrics can lead us astray in accura-tely evaluating performance. Indeed, Einstein asserted that «Not everything that counts can be counted. And not everything that can be counted counts.»
A collection of 50+ enterprise 2.0 case studies and examples
Jacob Morgan, Update September 21, 2011
Since the democratization of the enterprise 2.0 concept, many case studies have been done in order to explain how this idea has been used by firms, and how it is evol-ving. This article from Jacob Morgan aggregates more than 50 enterprise 2.0 case studies and examples.
Social power and the coming corporaterevolution
Forbes, David Kirkpatrick, September 7, 2011
Civilizations have clashed in an unexpected way this year, using Facebook and Twitter to knock down dic-tators. We have entered the age of empowered indivi-duals harnessing social media to organize themselves. But most are ordinary people with new tools to force you to listen to what they care about and to demand respect. Both customers and employees have started marching in this burgeoning social media multitude. This article highlights why companies and leaders will have to show authenticity, transparency and good faith. If they don’t, customers and employees may come to distrust them, to potentially disastrous effect.
Commotion, le projet d’un Internet hors de tout contrôle
Le Monde, Yves Eudes, 30 Août 2011
Imaginez un Internet sans fil, haut débit, fonctionnant sur les fréquences Wifi, indépendant de toutes les in-frastructures actuelles telles que les antennes-relais, les câbles, les satellites. Un Internet autonome, décen-tralisé, mouvant car transformant chaque ordinateur et chaque téléphone en relais intelligent. Un internet qui s’affranchit donc de toute frontière mais aussi de toute censure, de toute surveillance car le trafic y est ano-nyme et crypté. Un Internet libre et gratuit, une utopie ?Peut-être plus pour très longtemps grâce à Commo-tion, un projet très officiel soutenu et financé par Open Technology Intiative, un organisme dirigé par Eric Schmidt, executive chairman de Google.Un projet qui, s’il voit le jour, pourrait remettre en cause le business model de secteurs d’activité comme celui des opérateurs télécom.
The Internet of things will dwarf the Internet of people
Trends in the living networks, Ross Dawson, September 1, 2011
In 2008 the number of devices connected to the Inter-net surpassed the number of people connected, and in 2020 there will be 50 billion things connected, accor-ding to Dave Evans of Cisco. This infographic by Ross Dawson highlights some of the key features of the Internet of things, including the pace of growth, how external data can be aggregated so that your alarm clocks, cars, and coffee makers make decisions to fit with your schedule, and that some cameras and com-puters are now just a cubic millimeter.
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Des joueurs en ligne résolvent l’une des énigmes du virus du sida
AFP, Laurent Banguet, 19 Septembre 2011
Des joueurs adeptes d’un jeu vidéo en ligne ont réus-si, en trois semaines, à décoder une enzyme proche de celle du virus du Sida et qui tenait en échec les scientifiques spécialistes du domaine depuis plus de 10 ans. Un exemple éloquent de la puissance de l’in-telligence collective.
State of the media : The social media report by Nielsen
Nielsen, September 2011
Social media’s popularity keeps growing, connecting people through a huge platform. In the US, social networks reach nearly 80% of the active internet users. As no one can deny the influence of this powerful tool, Nielsen’s “State of the Media Q3 2011” presents a snapshot of the current social media landscape and audience in the U.S. and other major markets.
The myth of reputationChris Brogan, September 5, 2011
How are we perceived? What do people say about us? If we’re not around, what gets said differently? Some of your clients will love what you did. Others will say you were a waste of their money. Both might be right. It just depends. This article explains why the trick is that reputation comes from the perspectives of others, and as such, it’s not ours to worry about.
Tips to defend your digital reputationThe Wall Street Journal, Leslie Gaines-Ross,
September 11, 2011
With social networks, online assaults are quite recur-rent. Given the often anonymous, easily accessible and rapidly disbursable nature of these attacks, eve-ry one of them has the potential to become a crisis, grabbing headlines and spreading instantaneously to millions across social networks. How well a company manages such events not only prevents against unwarranted damage to its reputa-tion, but also adds value in its own right. Having in place an effective digital defense plan is thus crucial. This article gives five essentials when building such a plan.
Deloitte bets big on informal, social learningThe Brain Yard, David F. Carr, September 6, 2011
Chief Learning Officer Nick van Dam says 90% of all corporate learning is informal learning, including infor-mation gleaned through social networks. Because a consulting organization is only as good as its people, Deloitte wants its people to learn every which way. This article shows why, at Deloitte, an emphasis has been put on the importance of informal learning, in-cluding learning through social media-public social networks as well as company-controlled enterprise social networks.
Why diverse viewpoints are critical in dealing with complexity
Trends in the living networks, Ross Dawson, September 23, 2011
The latest HBR focused, through several articles, on the concept of complexity. Michael J. Mauboussin, from Legg Mason Capital Management, tried in the review to explain why this concept is so important for him. This article highlights the rules of thumb for get-ting oneself into the right mind-set to deal with com-plexity.
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More Notable Links
- Qui veut gagner des batailles ? http://lavoiedelepee.blogspot.com/2011/09/qui-veut-gagner-des-batailles.html
- The anatomy of a social media crisishttp://mashable.com/2011/08/31/social-media-crisis/
- Cartographie : les conflits économiques de demain http://www.france24.com/fr/20110910-2011-09-10-0410-wb-fr-intelligence-eco
- Through chinese eyes: Tang Qifang (part 1)http://www.lowyinterpreter.org/post/2011/09/06/Through-Chinese-eyes-Tang-Qifang-%28part-1%29.aspx
- The spy who tweeted me: Intelligence community wants to monitor social mediahttp://nationalsecurityzone.org/site/the-spy-who-tweeted-me-intelligence-community-wants-to-monitor-social-media/
- Du concret sur le ROI des médias sociauxhttp://fr.mashable.com/2011/09/08/du-concret-sur-le-roi-des-medias-sociaux/
- Company culture that workshttp://www.inc.com/iboc/company-culture-that-works
- Lessons learned: managing intelligence projects and producing intelligence products with wikis (The Good, The Bad, The Reality)http://sourcesandmethods.blogspot.com/2011/09/lessons-learned-managing-intelligence.html
- Trust the evidence, not your instinctshttp://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/jobs/04pre.html?_r=2
- The great mismatchhttp://www.economist.com/node/21528433
- Pourquoi le monde vieillit-il plus vite ?http://www.telos-eu.com/fr/article/pourquoi-le-monde-vieillit-il-plus-vite
- Open source and corporate culturehttp://www.gilyehuda.com/2011/09/12/open-source-and-corporate-culture/
- Tiger vs. Dragon: a demographic comparison of India and Chinahttp://www.freakonomics.com/2011/09/12/tiger-vs-dragon-a-demographic-comparison-of-india-and-china/
- Robotic labor taking over the World? You bet – here are the detailshttp://singularityhub.com/2011/09/12/robotic-labor-taking-over-the-world-you-bet-here-are-the-details/
- Futures impossible : a new methodology to study world eventshttp://boingboing.net/2011/09/15/futures-impossible-a-new-methodology-to-study-world-events.html
- Don’t fear the migranthttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/9f557c86-de79-11e0-a2c0-00144feabdc0.html
- Why the future of money matters (Is the current system obsolete?)http://emergentbydesign.com/2011/09/17/why-the-future-of-money-matters-is-the-current-system-obsolete/
- La réputation n’a pas de prix… sauf pour votre prestataire http://caddereputation.over-blog.com/article-la-reputation-n-a-pas-de-prix-sauf-pour-votre-prestataire-84699179.html
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