The Infinite Resource

Creating and Leading the Knowledge Enterprise
Herausgeber: Halal, William E

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Produktbeschreibung

Harness the Boundless Power of Knowledge Take a fascinating glimpse into the not-too-distant future. In The Infinite Resource, seventeen visionary thinkers explore knowledge--the only inexhaustible source of competitive advantage--as the juggernaut of an remarkable new order whose advent is fast rAndering today's business conventions obsolete. Their incisive observations include up-to-the-minute examinations of knowledge-change initiatives currently under way at Bell Atlantic, MCI, Lufthansa, and other forward-thinking companies. Filled with fresh ideas, perspectives, and voices, it's a state-of-the-art appraisal of emerging organizational forms vital to anyone grappling with the challenges and possibilities posed by the Information Age.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 617g
• ISBN-13: 9780787910150
• ISBN-10: 0787910155
• Artikelnr.: 22469826

Autorenporträt

WILLIAM E. HALAL is professor of management at George Washington University. A respected management scholar, consultant, and author of three previous books, including The New Management (1996), he lives in Washington, D.C.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction.
The Economic Imperatives of Knowledge: New Organizations for a New Era.
CREATING THE INTERNAL ENTERPRISE SYSTEM.
A Small Government Solution to Big City Problems.
Transforming Organizations into Market Economies.
Reintroducing Alcoa to Economic Reality.
Market-Based Management at Koch Industries.
Lufthansa Soars on Internal Markets.
FORMING A NETWORK OF COOPERATIVE ALLIANCES.
Knowledge Companies.
The Spherical Network organization.
The Age of the Network.
Novell's Ten- Thousand- Piece Puzzle.
Managing the Virtual Organization.
LEVERAGING KNOWLEDGETH AN INTELLIGENT INFRASTRUCTURE.
Our Vision of the Information Superhighway.
Taking a Byte Out of Bureaucracy.
Welcome to the Revolution.
The Intelligent Organization.
An Advertising Agency Without Walls.
Riding the Information Tiger.