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Notes on Organisational Structures and Models (1)

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Let’s start with a short quote: Everywhere, we celebrate the famous entrepreneurs, but organizations “modeler”, rarely. If the foresight or recklessness of the former is a necessary (but not sufficient) condition of economic development, it is the second discrete engineering that allows companies to grow and last.(i) What do those discrete engineers of organisation have […]

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Immunity To Change Map (Change Management)

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Immunity to Change Map (ITC)! Quid? A simple and strong tool that we practiced during the MBA with the executive coach (Hanneke Frase). First, it is a tool that can be used both at a personal and company level. They can reach quite a level of complexity, but they -at least- are able to capture […]

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Notes on Change Management and Fair Process

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Following up the last post, I wanted to add a point that with it will definitely fit well! Fair Process vs Fair Outcome This is based on the MBA module that we had with an excellent executive coach (Hanneke Frase). It is also extracted from this article that presents nicely the situation. Imagine a change […]

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Notes on Change Management

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One of the best course, if not the best, was the one about Change Management. A great deal of transverse knowledge coupled with change management theory can lead to success. Soft skills are however key. Understanding the forces in presence and what are the particular worry of each stakeholder is indeed crucial for success. But […]

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To be or not to be… Evil

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Juilan Browne. In a quite long essay, he defends the fact that being, or better becoming Evil for corporation is inevitable. And to make the story short, Julian basically says: “Small company” => Good, “Big company” => difficult, “A company listed on the stock exchange” => definitely Evil. This could be seen as politically sided, […]

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How to be a leader?

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I had to write a paper about “How to be a leader?” We all have a very good representation of how it has to be. Don’t we? But when it comes to write it down, it starts to be a bit more tricky. Talking to my fellows MBA colleagues I found out that a common […]

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ICT and Getting Things Done

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While reading again Julian Browne, I wanted to add his thoughts to my blog notes. (Photo courtesy of ©iStockphoto.com/Filmwork) Julian Browne is unknown to me in real life. But he has his place in my digital panorama. There is one writing that I enjoyed to read: => The Business Alignment Fallacy We exchanged our views […]

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Macintosh – It will be soon 30 years ago!

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A very good way to feel the time passing by… is to dig Youtube. Look at Steve Job introducing the Macintosh in the below video, it was in 1984! Jobs says “All the images that you are going to see on a large screen will be generated by what is in THAT bag!” The video […]