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Designing twenty-first century organisations with social tools Lee Bryant, May 2009

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A talk I gave at the Somesso London Conference in May 2009 about how we can take forward the idea of social business design to finally move beyond the legacy Twentieth-Century model of corporate structure

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Designing twenty-first century organisations with social toolsLee Bryant, May 2009

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The Twentieth Centurycompany is still with us

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the post-industrial society of the C20th

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mass production, marketing, segmentation

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culture of the “modern” corporation

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Weberian bureaucracy

culture of the “modern” corporation

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Weberian bureaucracy Industrial Revolution

culture of the “modern” corporation

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Weberian bureaucracy Industrial Revolution Taylorism

culture of the “modern” corporation

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welcome to the “IT” Department

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CRM: we do not value you or your call

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The Twentieth Century company does not trust its staff or its customers

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It was not always like this

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traditional trading networks

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guilds, professions and networks

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even banking used to be a profession

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...before it descended into plunder

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the Twenty-First Century company will be more modern and more traditional

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scale-free networks are old & reliable

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lesson of social web : trust breeds trust

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(cc) http://www.flickr.com/photos/yuan2003/403643949/

social networks + weak ties = organisational immune system

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trust is cheaper than control

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network-centric managementis more robust than the org chart

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we can no longer afford thehigh-friction, high-cost model

of process over people

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downturn is our impetus for change

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time to move beyond ‘doing projects’ and turn this into the mainstream

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time for social business design?

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what do we need #1 :stop handing over all projects

involving technology to the IT dept.

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what do we need #2 :connected infrastructure

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Public feeds & flows: data firehose

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Public feeds & flows: data firehose

Tweets, bookmarks & tags: signals of relevance

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Public feeds & flows: data firehose

Tweets, bookmarks & tags: signals of relevance

Blogs and networks: sharing & sense making

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Public feeds & flows: data firehose

Tweets, bookmarks & tags: signals of relevance

Blogs and networks: sharing & sense making

Group collaboration: getting things done

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Public feeds & flows: data firehose

Tweets, bookmarks & tags: signals of relevance

Blogs and networks: sharing & sense making

Group collaboration: getting things done

Personal tools: organising your world of work

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Public feeds & flows: data firehose

Tweets, bookmarks & tags: signals of relevance

Blogs and networks: sharing & sense making

Group collaboration: getting things done

Personal tools: organising your world of work

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what do we need #3 :mobilise your people

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No point being open at the edges...

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... if you treat your staff like machines

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what do we need #4 :evolutionary processes,

not ‘best practice’

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better ambient awareness

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rapid feedback is the key to evolution

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rapid feedback is the key to evolution

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what do we need #5 :user experience is the key to the

consumerisation of the enterprise

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what do we need #6 :make hidden data shared and useit to drive collective intelligence

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what do we need #7 :a network-centric view

of the business

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Thanks for listening!

I am [email protected] and live at http://www.headshift.com

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