Management Innovation for Increasingly Wired and Collaborative Workplaces

I have just finished a quick read of Gary Hamel’s The Future of Management.

He sets out clearly that whilst many areas of human activities have undergone a fair bit of transformation and subsequent adaptation, organizations today are still working with yesteryear’s tools … rigid job descriptions, performance measures derived from assumptions of sequential work tasks, the cascading down through the organization of objectives, a plethora of controls and policies derived from industrial-era work design and so on.

He then goes on to refer to Web 2.0, blogs, employee voice, toleration if not encouragement of meaningful dissent, aggregation of knowledge, increased need for aspects of democracy in organizations and suggests that the Web and interconnected collaboration may eventually offer the most powerful tools yet for the management of ongoing innovation and responsiveness

I believe that much of this is what I have been writing about with respect to wirearchy.