HBR _ Imagining the Company of the Future
Gary Hamel and the Harvard Business Review are asking people to imagine the Company of the Future:
What will the company of the future look like? Will it be any different from today’s leading-edge businesses? What are the important ways in which today’s companies must change in order to thrive?
The survey asks two questions:
1. Twenty years into the future, what one characteristic — principle, process, practice, or structural feature — of the late twentieth-century industrial organization will appear to be the most antiquated or anachronistic?
2. Looking out a generation or two, what feature or characteristic — principle, process, practice, or structural feature — of leading-edge organizations will be most different from what we observe today? Use your imagination to describe this new feature or characteristic in detail and in a way that illustrates the difference it will make to organizational success.
My take on these questions (extremely short version, alas):
1. the focus on manageability and controllability (entailing scorecards and more)
2. organizations will use and foster (generative, organizational, knowledge) relationships …
One can be emailed when the survey results are ready, so go and take your bet …
