My links of the week (weekly)

• The Source of Organizational Dysfunction, Revealed!

  “Large organizations seem to have a certain persistent dysfunction, at least the ones that I’ve worked in or with. They are places where decisions aren’t made until there has been intensive calculation of the internal political considerations; where going to meetings is equated with getting things done; and where, as one friend described his firm, “great ideas go to die.””

  tags: organization

• The Social Enterprise

  “La domanda a cui abbiamo cercato di dare risposta con il lavoro è in sostanza “quali scelte e caratteristiche differenziano le aziende italiane che hanno successo con le iniziative di Social Collaboration da quelle che stanno ancora muovendo i primi passi?“.”

  tags: social_enterprise collaboration

• Why collaboration with customers and partners is a complicated matter

  “All businesses want to improve the way they collaborate with their customers and partners. Quite logical. No one creates value alone and two businesses that are very good at internal collaboration won’t make the most of as long as a bottleneck remains at the point where their relative teams meet.”

  tags: social_enterprise collaboration

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.