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Enterprise 2.0 - France’s Excellent Chance(s)November 16

The following notes are an opinion piece, not a rigorously researched and articulated article.

I have just had the opportunity to spend a week in Paris, meeting and talking with the team at blueKiwi, under the leadership of Carlos Diaz and Christophe Rouitheau, two dynamic and intelligent young French entrepreneurs. They and their team, thanks to live-wire Bertrand Duperrin, invited me and Stowe Boyd to speak at the launch of the 2009 version of blueKiwi collaborative platform.

I’ve also had the chance to connect with Headshift’s Dr. Olivier Amprimo, a young organizational sociologist, strategist and early-stage entrepreneur who is (I believe) helping to raise the bar regarding the mass customisation of work with his involvement with Personall, the brainchild of he and Jeremy Grinbaum (ex of IBM and Google Enterprise) and Jean-Patrice Glafkides, also an ex-IBMer.

Additionally, I’ve had the pleasure to meet and discuss with Dr. Miguel Membrado (co-founder of several leading search and collaboration related software applications), David Guillocheau and Patrice Malaurie of Talentys, and Philippe Colin of Itexium, an IT strategy and implement

Paris … 1st WalkaboutNovember 12

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The Experts Catch Up ?November 12

I noticed this in my RSS feeds when re-connecting to the Web after settling in to my digs in Paris, mainly because of the article’s catchy title.

Who could have thought that social media might represent the future of information technology (sarcasm alert) ? In my opinion, this article (or similar content) could have been written three years ago by any number of people I know.

Via the Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge …

Social Media Leads The Future of Technology

Internet-connected televisions, social media, and the power of simplicity were all cited as launch pads for future innovation in technology, according to a panel of experts that convened at Harvard Business School as part of the HBS Centennial Business Summit in October.

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Difficulties aside, Breyer said the promise of technology meant that innovation to solve a problem could arrive from any quarter: prominent companies, nonprofit enterprises, "two students in a dorm room, or mothers or fathers after they have done their school pickups." He continues to be impressed by businesses that start with little capital—anywhere from $10,000 to $50,000—yet get to scale quickly and build new applications on the Web.

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Just as technology is influencing society, society is increasingly making demands on technolog

Me in 1974 With My Pre-Punk Rock Band The Brass StudsNovember 11

Isn’t Facebook wonderful sometimes ?

An old friend of mine, Keith Caddy, dug up and scanned a classic photo of my friends and I in the fall of 1974 just prior to going on stage for a concert we at the university I attended.

Here it is .. I’m the guy slightly to the left with the moustache … Stewart Spence, now a senior executive with one of Canada’s major banks, has his arm around my shoulders with his left hand looking like it’s about to go down my pants.

Paris … 6 Espressos in 6 HoursNovember 10

.. after an overnight "red-eye" flight from Montreal.

How wonderful to be here again, and to be greeted at the airport by Bertrand (Duperrin). The first three espressos came after climbing off the RER that took us into central Paris, and just before going to the blueKiwi offices on Boulevard Poissoniere to meet the blueKiwi team.

The next three were measured out over the next two hours (lunch etc.), and I will have to stay awake long enough to have dinner at a reasonable (Parisien) hour, so that I can slip into the rhythm in this time zone and not wake up at 3h30 am.

So very nice to be back here …