Comments on: German companies overcome E2.0 challenges. http://www.gilyehuda.com/2009/11/11/german-e20/ Your path to success Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:54:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Do empowered workers help achieve consensus? http://www.gilyehuda.com/2009/11/11/german-e20/comment-page-1/#comment-3216 Do empowered workers help achieve consensus? Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:11:18 +0000 http://www.gilyehuda.com/?p=864#comment-3216 [...] kind of information that Germans may feel to be in violation of their privacy. Read the details here and here — and especially the comments.  I must admit that the balance of power is very odd [...] [...] kind of information that Germans may feel to be in violation of their privacy. Read the details here and here — and especially the comments.  I must admit that the balance of power is very odd [...]

]]> By: Gil Yehuda http://www.gilyehuda.com/2009/11/11/german-e20/comment-page-1/#comment-3215 Gil Yehuda Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:08:07 +0000 http://www.gilyehuda.com/?p=864#comment-3215 Professor Joachim, thank you and thank you again for the time we spent together. Forgive me for not getting all the details about German law. However, I did learn two big ideas from our conversation. 1. German law gives workers some degree of power in the workplace that others do not have. In some ways this adds another challenge to E2.0 adoption since there is one more empowered party in the decision process. 2. Enterprise 2.0 Adoption in German companies is quite strong and successful. Perhaps I need to see this differently. Maybe the added degree of worker empowerment actually helps E2.0 adoption. I'd love to get more feedback on this idea -- let me start a <a href="http://www.gilyehuda.com/enterprise-20/do-empowered-workers-help-achieve-consensus/" rel="nofollow">new post to ask this very question</a>. Professor Joachim, thank you and thank you again for the time we spent together. Forgive me for not getting all the details about German law. However, I did learn two big ideas from our conversation. 1. German law gives workers some degree of power in the workplace that others do not have. In some ways this adds another challenge to E2.0 adoption since there is one more empowered party in the decision process. 2. Enterprise 2.0 Adoption in German companies is quite strong and successful.

Perhaps I need to see this differently. Maybe the added degree of worker empowerment actually helps E2.0 adoption. I’d love to get more feedback on this idea — let me start a new post to ask this very question.

]]> By: Joachim Niemeier http://www.gilyehuda.com/2009/11/11/german-e20/comment-page-1/#comment-3213 Joachim Niemeier Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:42:52 +0000 http://www.gilyehuda.com/?p=864#comment-3213 Gil, thanks a lot for this post (and also for the nice evening and good discussions we had in Frankfurt). You have covered the main topics of our discussion very well, some details need a little bit more clarification. In the meantime maybe this (automatic) translation of the German <a href="http://bit.ly/8RDLgT" rel="nofollow">Betriebsverfassungsgesetz</a> will give some more insights. Implementors must know these restrictions, otherwise E2.0 introduction will struggle to overcome formal barriers. You can do all the things you mentioned (eg. performance assessment based on digital data) also in Germany- but good advice is to find an agreement before a full roll out. On the other hand, we have many insightful E2.0 success stories here in Germany. Actually we a analyzing a set of around 50 E2.0 cases from the German market. The open culture of many small and medium-sized companies in Germany is a supportive factor for E2.0 introduction. Gil, thanks a lot for this post (and also for the nice evening and good discussions we had in Frankfurt). You have covered the main topics of our discussion very well, some details need a little bit more clarification. In the meantime maybe this (automatic) translation of the German Betriebsverfassungsgesetz will give some more insights.

Implementors must know these restrictions, otherwise E2.0 introduction will struggle to overcome formal barriers. You can do all the things you mentioned (eg. performance assessment based on digital data) also in Germany- but good advice is to find an agreement before a full roll out.

On the other hand, we have many insightful E2.0 success stories here in Germany. Actually we a analyzing a set of around 50 E2.0 cases from the German market. The open culture of many small and medium-sized companies in Germany is a supportive factor for E2.0 introduction.

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