http://jfconnex.com/2009/05/the-rise-of-the-atomic-organization/ playing at the intersection of people and organizations Mon, 19 Jul 2010 03:16:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://jfconnex.com/2009/05/the-rise-of-the-atomic-organization/comment-page-1/#comment-2 John Foster Tue, 26 May 2009 23:55:21 +0000 http://jfxblog.wordpress.com/?p=19#comment-2 This just in... Michael Malone, author of the Virtual Corporation has a new book out called, The Future Arrived Yesterday. He's calling for the rise of the Protean Corporation. Here's an overview of the book: A bold vision about the ways companies will adapt and be reborn in a revolutionary world where business models implode and the search is on for what will work. . . . The fate of newspapers and the music industry is a harbinger of what awaits every company: an aging business model in its death throes as people finally wake up to the grim fact that their products and the way they deliver them are completely out of sync not only with what customers want but how they want it. But Michael Malone–the author who, when the Internet was still the domain of technical experts, enabled his readers to see clearly the opportunities of the then-emerging digital age–is back and once again making sense of a future just around the corner. Business considerations such as the wireless World Wide Web, billions of new consumers, and an entrepreneurial ethos are all converging. How a corporation is organized and how people will be managed and employed will change more quickly than anyone realizes. This just in… Michael Malone, author of the Virtual Corporation has a new book out called, The Future Arrived Yesterday. He’s calling for the rise of the Protean Corporation. Here’s an overview of the book: A bold vision about the ways companies will adapt and be reborn in a revolutionary world where business models implode and the search is on for what will work. . . . The fate of newspapers and the music industry is a harbinger of what awaits every company: an aging business model in its death throes as people finally wake up to the grim fact that their products and the way they deliver them are completely out of sync not only with what customers want but how they want it. But Michael Malone–the author who, when the Internet was still the domain of technical experts, enabled his readers to see clearly the opportunities of the then-emerging digital age–is back and once again making sense of a future just around the corner. Business considerations such as the wireless World Wide Web, billions of new consumers, and an entrepreneurial ethos are all converging. How a corporation is organized and how people will be managed and employed will change more quickly than anyone realizes.

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