Abstract: The Information Age developed the need for networked intelligence. Business recognized that competitive advantage lay largely in what a company knows, not what it owns; invested heavily in information technology; and placed the integration of information at the center of what a company does. The Information Age, it turns out, was
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Trends creating the Knowledge Manager of the Future
Abstract: The role of the manager as merely an overseer of workers is an artifact of the Industrial Age paradigm, no longer appropriate to the Knowledge Age. Increasingly, middle managers’ heads are on the chopping blocks of budget-tightening corporations, and those who fail to transform themselves into “player/coaches” will become obsolete, suggests Thomas H.