Challenging Reality: In Search of the Future Organization - Softcover

Barnatt, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471970727 ISBN 13: 9780471970729

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1997

Synopsis

The author of this book is concerned with the shifting boundaries of organisational achievement across time. He looks at how future forms of organisation may develop as the next millennium looms closer given the constantly changing nature of "reality." This thinking is based on how the social and technological constraints placed upon organisations have evolved in irregular and often giant steps since the dawn of civilisation, and how the late-20th century is not the only period in history to be leading its children into an almost unknowable future. Challenging Reality is an enlightening look at the past, present and future of our world and how change and turmoil have affected, affect, and will affect social and organisational structures.

About this title

About the Author

Christopher Barnatt is a futurist, videographer and Associate Professor of Strategy & Future Studies in Nottingham University Business School. He is widely known in the 3D printing industry, and has written nine previous books.

From the Back Cover

• How may we recapture the passion of past human wonders?
• What will be the implications of new, "free agent" working patterns?
• Why will emerging "metamedia" replace the multimedia of the Present Age?
• Can nation states survive in the face of increasing globalization?
• And what will be the characteristics of successful Future Organizations?

Douglas Adams: "Everything is changing. The most fundamental assumptions we have about how people communicate and work together are dropping away. We have to reinvent ourselves. These are exactly the issues that I and my colleagues at The Digital Village are having to grapple with every day. Challenging Reality has certainly sparked a lively d##

From the Inside Flap

• How may we recapture the passion of past human wonders?
• What will be the implications of new, "free agent" working patterns?
• Why will emerging "metamedia" replace the multimedia of the Present Age?
• Can nation states survive in the face of increasing globalization?
• And what will be the characteristics of successful Future Organizations?

Douglas Adams: "Everything is changing. The most fundamental assumptions we have about how people communicate and work together are dropping away. We have to reinvent ourselves. These are exactly the issues that I and my colleagues at The Digital Village are having to grapple with every day. Challenging Reality has certainly sparked a lively d##

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471970727
• ISBN 13: 9780471970729
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320