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Posts tagged ‘The Power of Pull’

Tietohallinnon ja HR:n Sputnik-hetki

Megatrendit kuten pilvipalvelut, kuluttajistuminen, mobiliteetti ja sosiaalinen media laittavat sekä IT:n että HR:n kestävyys- ja nopeustestiin.

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Social Business, Power Balance and Trust

For a knowledge worker, it's no longer enough to be a good team player, you have to be a good network player. My preso in the International Woman’s Day @ Finnish Technology Industries.

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Trust-based Collaboration and Cultural Differences

This is a summary post of the topics I have been writing about during 2011. Topics as the Culture of Curiosity, Listening and Respect, Trust-based Collaboration, and the Wrong Lind of Silence.

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My Nostalgia Trip to Pre Social Business

As part of my unlearning and learning process towards better understanding of Social Business I’ve been thinking back the time I worked for a Swedish Supply Chain Management (SCM) company IBS.

Yes, I am recalling the attempts we made in order to build a platform for a global wholesale distribution, the concept was called as Virtual Enterprise.

It is now most interesting to follow the discussion about social business design and to find many similar perspectives.

Simultaneously with The Power of Pull, a warmly recommended read, I have been re-reading older European research about business process design (pdf), written by two Swiss gentlemen Elgar Fleisch and Hubert Österle. Already eighteen years ago (!) in 1993 they created an interesting concept of Integration Area that refers to organizational processes which are characterized by high dependency, and therefore require a high degree of coordination.

They discuss the complexity of inter-organizational networking which is associated with human interaction, organization structure, and the culture. In order to reduce this complexity, Fleisch and Österle presented the Coordination Areas. The five coordination areas that are highly dependent of each other are: Supply Chain Management, Relationship Management, Innovation, Infrastructure, and Organization Development.

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