tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7790648712079591257.post1787517526891153209..comments2023-12-25T02:28:46.982-08:00Comments on Strategy Musings: Thought Leadership in Management : Current Drought and Future Potentialcb@strategyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08830361140191018158noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7790648712079591257.post-23375619763685908972015-03-25T23:47:50.072-07:002015-03-25T23:47:50.072-07:00Thank you for this great post!!!
Institution Bui...Thank you for this great post!!! <br /><br /><a href="http://www.institutionbuilding.com/institution-building-programe.html" rel="nofollow"><i><b>Institution Building</b></i></a> || <a href="http://www.institutionbuilding.com" rel="nofollow"><i><b>Faculty Development Program</b></i></a> || <a href="http://www.institutionbuilding.com/education-leadership-programe.html" rel="nofollow"><i><b>Educational Leadership</b></i></a>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04234751367646165080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7790648712079591257.post-60325178470064888322009-08-13T19:59:26.654-07:002009-08-13T19:59:26.654-07:00Excellent review of past schools of thought and su...Excellent review of past schools of thought and suggestions for future although in my view there has always been a component of "techno-management" perhaps ever since the industrial revolution. While management will continue to play a role in future, what will separate the winners from losers is the the ability of the organization's "critical mass" to straddle both ends of tech vs management spectrum, perhaps best articulated by Hartmut Esslinger who quipped "“Designers must think like business people and create like artists. They must understand the business model, its goals, and its financial capabilities, limitations, and expectations.”Narayananhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02795521262546415260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7790648712079591257.post-43358482392722221232009-08-09T04:02:21.359-07:002009-08-09T04:02:21.359-07:00I fully agree with the “Techno Management” concept...I fully agree with the “Techno Management” concept going to be the future and the current generations should get ready for the challenge. Predicting the future of management is not easy, but it is interesting to speculate. As the author mentioned about the IPhone, telecommunications industry in India, a decade ago, it was almost a miracle to get a telephone connection and see it working. If we project these realities a few decades into the future – say, to the year 2020, RFID chips will become ubiquitous, providing unprecedented information about manufacturing processes and consumer behaviour. Meanwhile, as specialisation becomes the order of the day, vertically integrated companies may be supplanted by networked constellations of business partners. <br />Just how might these new partnerships work?<br />Outsourcing everything – A firm may focus on its core competencies and nothing more, for e.g. a firm may focus on product management and marketing while design and manufacturing may be farmed out to a constellation of partner firms and vice versa. Smart factories – Contract manufacturers around the world may work from web-based computer aided design drawings, adaptive tools, and self-reconfiguring assembly machines. These technologies allow factories to profitably produce small component runs for niche markets. <br />Talking inventory – Tiny RFID tags attached to parts and components ensure that suppliers have just enough inventories to fill orders. <br />An industrial army of robots – Adaptive manufacturing robots scan component RFIDs to figure out which model to assemble. Coordinated by intelligent production control software, the robots develop assembly routines automatically. <br />What’s in the box – Smart tags and special container satellite transmitter allow every item being shipped to be monitored by buyers with detailed information about the location of container and the condition of each product inside. <br />Have it your way – Each unit is tailored to local tastes, with final paint, styling, and design touches added at local distribution centres. Customization machines are programmed to add splashy colours, special logos, and silk screen images to the exterior of each unit.<br />Main street chain store – “Regional experience” stores designed to attract shoppers who are nostalgic for mom-and-pop retailing use RFID tags and inventory management algorithms to help these small stores quickly adapt to changing customer demand.<br />Personalized recommendations – Shopping carts detect RFID tags to identify products placed within. Subtotals are shown on the LCD screen as a recommendation engine suggests additional items based on current selection and past buying habits.<br />Sign here, please – The shopping cart beams the merchandise total to a transaction station, and the customer signs the screen to pay. Identity is verified by tracking the pressure, vector, and velocity of the signature script.<br />But how far the technology can sustain with the gap in generations. In the current scenario where the most of the top managers are of the older generation and the young budding managers look out to bring in the technologies, bridging the gap is a great challenge. With the current available technologies what percent of the organisations are investing towards the techno management? Yes, the western world is very much fascinated about the technology fastly moving towards implementing the form of PAT (Process Analytical Technology) etc., what about the countries like India and China where the human is cheaper than a machine (technology). Still today in this modern world we find the traditional Indian way of working in most of the organisations. The change management is the toughest task in today’s Indian context. Unless until the Techno Management is strongly supported through Change Management there is a wholesome of doubt the organisations sustain the global competition. There are numerous examples where the organisations have not sustained the growth due to the lack of Change Management at the strategic level.M S Reddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02315456006721209849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7790648712079591257.post-67702419550546417222009-07-30T14:25:38.149-07:002009-07-30T14:25:38.149-07:00Firstly, thank you for the blog.
‘Techno-Managem...Firstly, thank you for the blog.<br /> <br />‘Techno-Management’ aptly describes the fusion of technology and management. In many ways it looks & sounds (literally) like the change brought by ‘Techno’ to the music landscape.<br /><br />Though there is no dearth of new breed of management thinkers, I believe the focus should be more on executioners. With the confluence of changes that happening at a rapid clip, it is very easy for companies / management to loose focus on objectives i.e. bring in a solution to a market place that address specific problem rather than caught up in technological upheaval. <br /><br />Once the solution is in place a new facet of execution comes into play, which needs expertise in diverse domains covering psychology, sociology, engineering, finance and economics, so as to build an eco-system around the product / solution. Partnering with the end user i.e. customer and constantly taking their feedback and morphing the product and taking it to the next level. <br /><br />Author quoted ‘I Phone’ as an example; To start with, it is not a ground breaking solution in itself i.e. a device to make and receive calls over wireless networks. But when the very same solution put in the context of one stop shop for the audio/video/gaming/data needs and blending with App-Store, the options are endless and it became a phenomenon by itself.<br /><br />Appreciate your thoughts and comments on breed of next gen managerial executionersKiranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07422727030425446208noreply@blogger.com