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One thing is almost certain : In future there will be not one kind of corporation but several different ones. (page 279)
Organizations survive only if they can be run by competent people who take their job seriouly. (289)
Increasingly, in the Next Society's corporation, top management will, in fact, be the company. Everything else can be outsources. (291)
Will the corporation survive ? Yes, after a fashion. Something akin to a corporation will have to coordinate the Next Society's economic resources. Legally and perhaps financially, it may even look much the same as today's corporation. But instead of there being a single model adopted by everyone, there will be a range of models to choose from. And there equally will be a number of top-management models to choose from. (291)
Perhaps surprisingly, it can be argued that the Information Revolution has caused managements to be less well informed than they were before. (294)
They have more data, to be sure, but most of the information so readily made available by IT is about internal company matters. (294)
The most important changes affecting an institution today are likely to be outside ones, which present information systems usually know nothing about. (294)
To survive and succeed, every organization will have to turn itself into a change agent. (295)
If there is one thing that can be forecast with confidence, it is that the future will turn out in unexpected ways. (296)
The greatest changes are almost certainly still ahead of us. (299)
The central feature of the Next Society, as of its predecessors, will be new institutions and new therories, ideologies, and problems. (299)
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