The Company Of The Future: Meeting the management challenges of the communications revolution

by Frances Cairncross (Author)

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  Paperback
  2003

  $7.12

  The Company of the Future argues that we have grossly underestimated the power of communications technologies to change the way businesses behave. This book boldly asserts that managers and their companies must embrace and exploit the very technologies that have upended their jobs and their businesses. And they must look inside - improving the relationships among managers and employees - before they can realize the enormous potential that new technologies hold for enabling collaboration with customers, suppliers and partners. Cairncross outlines ten critical capabilities for surviving what may be the most revolutionary, even frightening period in corporate life. Setting the agenda for managerial success, The Company of the Future is an insightful guide that will help managers at all levels to anticipate and cope with the extreme challenges ahead in our networked world.

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  Hardcover
  2002

  $3.96

  In The Company of the Future, Frances Cairncross (senior editor at The Economist magazine and author of the business bestseller The Death of Distance) provides a lucid analysis of how the communications revolution - especially the Internet - is affecting, and will affect, the way companies operate and are managed. The book concentrates, not on Internet companies, but on the way mainstream companies and managers are being transformed as they find ways to exploit new communications tools. Today, almost every aspect of running a business is in flux. The reason: the evolution of the Internet, and a whole cluster of new technologies for handling and transmitting information. Cairncross examines the key elements of any corporation - organisational structure, culture, human resources, knowledge management, purchasing, supply chain, customer relationships - and how the way in which they operate and are managed will be affected by the changes taking place. She then outlines the key skills that managers must develop in order to manage successfully the company of the future.