Thierry de Baillon
Thierry de Baillon
Branding & web strategist, Druckerian marketer with a sustainability and cross-culture flavour. Passionate about learning.
Venn’s Adventures in the Future of Work
A few weeks ago, I was invited to speak at BPM Conference Portugal by Alberto Manuel, its chairman and delightful host. My talk focused...
Employee Engagement: Beyond Workplace Psychosis 2.0
I always have been an ardent supporter of true qualitative research. Yet, data IS interesting, specially when, considered under the right angle, it helps...
The Broken Business Model of Business
Every day, we can see new evidences that our society is broken. More than ever, we live on the edge of an era, without...
The Stopcock and the New Economy
For once, I would like to tell you a little story. When, my wife and me, we arrived the other day at our country...
The Thin Organization, Part III: From Social to Social
Co-evolution of organizations, technology and people is even more a fact we have to assess and embrace than a necessity. Yet, most of present...
The Thin Organization, Part II: Trapped into Causal Opacity?
Our world is changing. Fast. Radically. To cope with this pace of evolution, or to simply avoid disruption, organizations must evolve. The Glorious Thirties,...
Enacting Social Business
I was recently invited to participate to a session during the Enterprise 2.0 Summit in Paris, along with Jon Husband and Richard Collin, on...
My Social Business Predictions for 2003 (not a typo) – Part 2
Most of today's organizations are powerful productive machines, which were founded and grew up during an era where mass production was the norm, and...
My Social Business Predictions for 2003 (not a typo) – Part 1
I know, we are now in 2013, and announcing anything for a past date falls short from being a prediction. But as we are...
The tainted narrative of the workplace
Technology is influencing more than the way we work, it also deeply changes the notion of workplace. As IBM wrote in 2011 in its...
Innovation, Complexity and Social Business – Part 2
Reconciling Organizational Improvement and Reinvention Through Social Business Design This post is the second of a two-parts article on innovation and social business co-written with...
Innovation, Complexity and Social Business – Part 1
Business Model Innovation as Wicked Problem This post is the first of a two-parts article on innovation and social business co-written with Ralph-Christian Ohr (@ralph_ohr)...
From Knowledge Stocks to Knowledge Flows: the Journey Just Begins
"Increasingly, strategic advantage for corporate institutions will hinge on privileged positions in relevant concentrations of high-value knowledge flows and the adoption of practices required...
Musings on Social Flows and Business Cliffs
This might look like a holiday postcard, and it in some way is. Summer always offers a great opportunity to switch off, step back...
When transparency is way too opaque
I had yesterday one of many great conversations with Luis Suarez on Twitter, during the online chat organized by CMSWire around social business. The...
Social Business isn’t About Companies, It is About Cities
In The Social Psychology of Organizing, Karl Weick exposed the theory of enactment, stating that organizations were fundamentally an abstraction of the reality, essentially...
Launching the ‘Future of Collaborative Enterprise’ Project
Organizations are facing today the most challenging conditions of their history. Turbulent times in economy, geopolitical threats, environmental and societal issues, are setting the...
Organizational Redefinition and the Pocket Calculator
History, we know, is apt to repeat itself, and to foist very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of costume. George Eliot…
The Catch Behind Design Thinking
Version française ici. This post is the first of a two-parts article on design thinking co-written with Ralph-Christian Ohr (@ralph_ohr). As businesses are more and...
The Hidden Power of Renegade Knowledge
From knowledge management to social business, nearly every framework or practical initiative tackling the human dimensions of organizational efficiency emphasizes on knowledge sharing. Most...