On tomorrow's organizations: Moving forward, or a step backwards?

In a comment on the article Radical Surgery: What Will Tomorrow's Organizations Look Like? by Mitroff, et al., Thomas H. Davenport of Ernst & Young's Center for Business Innovation notes that the article raises interesting questions of organizational structure, function, and change. Wh...

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Published inAcademy of Management perspectives Vol. 8; no. 3; p. 93
Main Authors Davenport, Thomas H, Delano, June E K
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Briarcliff Manor Academy of Management 01.08.1994
Subjects
Executives
Information management
Information technology
Innovations
Knowledge
Learning centers
Management styles
Organization development
Organization theory
Organizational change
Organizational structure
Planning
Product development
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Summary:In a comment on the article Radical Surgery: What Will Tomorrow's Organizations Look Like? by Mitroff, et al., Thomas H. Davenport of Ernst & Young's Center for Business Innovation notes that the article raises interesting questions of organizational structure, function, and change. While some managers may feel that the article was "off the deep end," Davenport believes that several of the predictions are plausible and even quite mild. Davenport then goes on to discuss Mitroff, Mason, and Pearson's argument that organizations need knowledge/learing centers (KLC) to aid in securing, organizing, and disseminating the right information to the right people at the right time so products and services can be produced and delivered. June E. K. Delano of Eastman Kodak says that he and most of his clients agree with Mitroff, et al when they aspire to a new philosophy of organization design and assert that what is needed is radically new kinds of organizations to meet radically new challenges.
ISSN:1558-9080
1943-4529
DOI:10.5465/AME.1994.9503101186