Frans van der Reep
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Get in or lose out: either social business or no business
The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live-F. Wittemore
The big change towards ‘customer self care’ and bottom-up self assembled teaming as the coordination principle in companies is rapidly gaining strength.. The customer is about [...]
Hierarchy is simply too expensive
…… or how to maintain the overhead costs
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence-Laurence .J. Peter
There are many hopeful signs in the Netherlands illustrating social media accelerate many positive developments in the businesss domain. Social media create new view points, multiple ways to [...]
The New Way of Working as a new world of working…
and key factor to more collaboration and business success
Your life doesn’t get better by chance, it gets better by change- J.Rohn
Internet induces fundamental transformations in [...]
Speaking is silver, listening is gold…….
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly- Plutarch
Internet triggers companies to multiply their listening skills because otherwise the collaboration might turn to be very expensive and ineffective. Why? In the digital age it’s all [...]
“Who’s my PAL?”, Cooperation as a core competence (2004)
A company, understood as a collaboration between people and means, derives its existential right from the fact that it is able to organise cooperation faster, better and more cheaply than the market. If it is unable to do this, then a company does not [...]
Social Company Principles
Values give a perspective…
It is not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are- Roy Disney
Company values have moved up the business agenda. And rightly so. Values will get you somewhere. After all, values are “the points of departures for behaviour”; create frameworks; And steer [...]
Wibi Soerjadi, e-business guru avant la lettre
Heb je ook die ervaring dat je vaak pas achteraf snapt wat je van iemand of van een gebeurtenis geleerd hebt. Zo’n ervaring met ‘ongezocht leren’ had ik ook met de pianist Wibi Soerjadi halverwege de jaren ’90. Hij was toen ‘hot’, met zijn Bösi en [...]
Connected Future [i], Trends
Digital Trends
In the following pages, we go through six related trends with you, without pretending to be complete.
Trend 1: back to the middle ages
Since, with the Internet, place and time, and to a large extent also costs, [...]
The Middle Ages in the Internet-era: what is happening around us?
An essay
Frans van der Reep[i]
In 2001 I wrote that as a consequence of the invention of the internet, society has shown, and will be seen to take on, more and more medieval characteristics in the future. As such, we [...]
