http://yannickprimel.wordpress.com Les aventures d'un ethnologue dans le grand monde Sat, 18 May 2013 17:25:54 +0000 fr hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://1.gravatar.com/blavatar/f6200163f9ea0f4248467b7192e77b1e?s=96&d=http%3A%2F%2Fs2.wp.com%2Fi%2Fbuttonw-com.png http://yannickprimel.wordpress.com http://yannickprimel.wordpress.com/2013/05/17/galerie-tumblr/ http://yannickprimel.wordpress.com/2013/05/17/galerie-tumblr/#comments Fri, 17 May 2013 09:17:33 +0000 Yannick http://yannickprimel.wordpress.com/?p=3556 ]]> http://yannickprimel.wordpress.com/2013/05/17/galerie-tumblr/feed/ 0 Yannick My gallery of inspirations is now on Tumblr. C'mon here ! http://yannickprimel.wordpress.com/2013/05/13/lectures-du-soir/ http://yannickprimel.wordpress.com/2013/05/13/lectures-du-soir/#comments Sun, 12 May 2013 18:02:05 +0000 Yannick http://yannickprimel.wordpress.com/?p=3461 ]]> http://yannickprimel.wordpress.com/2013/05/13/lectures-du-soir/feed/ 0 47.218371 -1.553621 47.218371 -1.553621 Yannick Reading list : http://compaso.eu/current-number Reading list : http://www.crosstalkonline.org French Academy of moral and political sciences Long live the king...: MIT Technology review Reading list : the Rolls Royce industry journal http://yannickprimel.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/citation-13-code-de-conduite/ http://yannickprimel.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/citation-13-code-de-conduite/#comments Wed, 08 May 2013 03:11:12 +0000 Yannick http://yannickprimel.wordpress.com/?p=3134 ]]> http://yannickprimel.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/citation-13-code-de-conduite/feed/ 0 47.218371 -1.553621 47.218371 -1.553621 Yannick Four-stars general James Mattis, United States Marine Corps. The military equivalent of a rock star. http://yannickprimel.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/inspiration-estivale-2/ http://yannickprimel.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/inspiration-estivale-2/#comments Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:01:15 +0000 Yannick http://yannickprimel.wordpress.com/?p=1705 ]]> http://yannickprimel.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/inspiration-estivale-2/feed/ 3 Yannick Don't come in Brittany, there's nothing to do and it rains everyday. No, seriously, don't come. http://yannickprimel.wordpress.com/2013/04/04/discussion-de-salon-un-ethnologue-ca-sert-a-quoi/ http://yannickprimel.wordpress.com/2013/04/04/discussion-de-salon-un-ethnologue-ca-sert-a-quoi/#comments Wed, 03 Apr 2013 20:04:03 +0000 Yannick http://yannickprimel.wordpress.com/?p=3405 ]]> http://yannickprimel.wordpress.com/2013/04/04/discussion-de-salon-un-ethnologue-ca-sert-a-quoi/feed/ 0 47.218371 -1.553621 47.218371 -1.553621 Yannick "The nuer" : a masterpiece of ethnological field studies. One among many references you can use when doing the job of an 'organization consultant'. "The daily life of engineers" : ethnology of a professional culture. Because working people also have a 'culture' ...and you'd rather not break it while managing the daily life of your organization... because this is what keeps the organization alive. http://yannickprimel.wordpress.com/2013/03/06/braquage-belge/ http://yannickprimel.wordpress.com/2013/03/06/braquage-belge/#comments Tue, 05 Mar 2013 22:06:08 +0000 Yannick http://yannickprimel.wordpress.com/?p=3346 ]]> http://yannickprimel.wordpress.com/2013/03/06/braquage-belge/feed/ 0 Yannick On 18th february 2013, eight men stole 120 parcels of diamonds in the cargo of a Fokker 100 airplane. The time-window was of 20 minutes before take off and the non violent assault lasted less than 3 minutes. Total gain : 50M euros. Well done, folks... ''The Target''. The interception of diamonds between Antwerp and Zurich demands high precision work. By strict organizational terms, how could this be achieved ? That's a funny guesswork. And rather educational, also. Before the robbery at Brussels airport, there must have been a serious risk-management analysis... a common method in project management called SWOT. Mapping the field... where are the weak points, in order to get ''The Target'' ? http://yannickprimel.wordpress.com/2013/02/15/reduire-les-niveaux-hierarchiques-lillusion-de-lagilite/ http://yannickprimel.wordpress.com/2013/02/15/reduire-les-niveaux-hierarchiques-lillusion-de-lagilite/#comments Fri, 15 Feb 2013 12:20:38 +0000 Yannick http://yannickprimel.wordpress.com/?p=3310 ]]> http://yannickprimel.wordpress.com/2013/02/15/reduire-les-niveaux-hierarchiques-lillusion-de-lagilite/feed/ 0 Yannick The trend is expanding from the US to France : less hierarchy, more agility... or so it seems... "Delayering" is a good idea, on commercial PowerPoint presentations. Yet the reality of such transformations can be deceiving... because most of the time the responsibilities tend to go upward, not downward as they were "supposed" to do. Pulling off hierarchy levels could seem a good idea. Unless you just end up with a weaker mountain, prone to collapse. http://yannickprimel.wordpress.com/2013/02/01/la-confiance/ http://yannickprimel.wordpress.com/2013/02/01/la-confiance/#comments Fri, 01 Feb 2013 12:20:23 +0000 Yannick http://yannickprimel.wordpress.com/?p=3281 ]]> http://yannickprimel.wordpress.com/2013/02/01/la-confiance/feed/ 0 47.218371 -1.553621 47.218371 -1.553621 Yannick Trust among people is a basic fact of teamwork. Like a seed, it needs to be planted, nurtured and protected by the team leader. *That* is management : to foster or to deter some values, hence some behaviours. [click image to open the study in english] Chapman university studied the arrival of newcomers in a team, and their effetcs on the overall trust among team members. http://yannickprimel.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/trouver-linspiration-meilleurs-voeux-co/ http://yannickprimel.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/trouver-linspiration-meilleurs-voeux-co/#comments Sun, 06 Jan 2013 12:09:21 +0000 Yannick http://yannickprimel.wordpress.com/?p=3255 ]]> http://yannickprimel.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/trouver-linspiration-meilleurs-voeux-co/feed/ 0 47.218371 -1.553621 47.218371 -1.553621 Yannick http://yannickprimel.wordpress.com/2012/11/21/ces-gauloises-qui-se-consument/ http://yannickprimel.wordpress.com/2012/11/21/ces-gauloises-qui-se-consument/#comments Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:21:35 +0000 Yannick http://yannickprimel.wordpress.com/?p=3184 ]]> http://yannickprimel.wordpress.com/2012/11/21/ces-gauloises-qui-se-consument/feed/ 1 47.218371 -1.553621 47.218371 -1.553621 Yannick Dragging your errors like a plea... In the world of IT projects, it is common to accept 70% of failures on average (as measured by Standish Group in 1995). This huge failure rate comes from a serious lack of requirements analysis and bad integration of new softwares into the existing system. Since 2011, for more than one year, the payroll of french soldiers has been seriously disrupted, bringing many families on the brink of bankruptcy. That's a failed IT project ! So failed that. Not having free speech themselves, it's their spouses who are getting on the protests frontline... Do you remember the Murphy's Law ? What was the plan B for this failed IT project, already ? Due salary for October 2012 : 0. Ouch, that's a failed IT project ! The bureaucratic phenomenom describes how large organisations lack the "feedback tools" to quickly correct their actions... except in times of severe crisis. The failed LOUVOIS project in the french Army is such a crisis that could (?) bring more agility within the organisation's back office.