Managing Beyond the Information Revolution

Synopsis

A video-based training package consisting of 3 videos, participant’s workbook and leader’s guide in which Peter Drucker talks about how leaders can prepare themselves and their organizations for the inevitable changes that lie ahead after the first round of the Internet battle.

Language

English

Country

Great Britain

Year of release

2002

Year of production

2002

Subjects

Business studies; Information technology

Keywords

economic issues; innovation; Internet; knowledge management; personnel management

Distribution Formats

Type

VHS

Format

PAL NTSC

Price

$1.295

Availability

Sale

Duration/Size

115 mins (total)

Year

2002

Sections

Title

Managing beyond the internet era

Synopsis

Peter Drucker and Javier Palom talk about the impact of the information technology in businesses, the Information Society, and the future of the Internet. They discuss issues including the rise and fall of a "New Economy" fostered by the Internet and the technology companies and what technology companies did wrong. Economic history demonstrates that a speculative boom precedes the growth of the real business by 10 years. Are new valuation metrics and new economics needed for the new technology start-ups? The contribution of information technology to business and society and its strong impact on Operations. How old organizations are adapting to e-commerce and becoming leaders. The need to be globally competitive. Information Society or Knowledge Society? The new developments that can be expected from the Internet and their contribution to organizations.

Duration

30 mins

Title

Leading the innovative organization

Synopsis

In this unit Peter Drucker presents his latest thinking on innovation, an issue with close links to the Information Revolution. As he explains, today an organization needs to go beyond innovation to become a "change leader".

Every new key invention (i.e. the railroad) brings about a change in mentality in society, and after that, big innovations flourish developed from the new technology. But very often strategy is more important than the innovation itself -the market never is where the inventor thinks it will be. Being a "change leader" company: having the right mindset for innovation. The need for change in big and medium-sized corporations. The fundamental changes in marketing that can be expected from the Internet. How the new distribution channels change who the customers are, how customers buy, what they buy, their behaviour, saving patterns, industry structure...

Duration

45 mins

Title

Can the knowledge worker be led?

Synopsis

Peter Drucker was the first to coin the term "Knowledge Worker". He talks about how organizations should lead Knowledge Workers, the main characters in the Information Revolution - how to retain them, how to motivate them, making them productive, and the danger of stock options.

Performance in knowledge-based industries will come to depend on running the institution so as to attract, hold and motivate knowledge workers. Some challenges: knowledge workers now outlive the employing organizations, measuring knowledge work productivity, implementing continuing education to avoid premature obsolescence of knowledge ...Motivating and holding knowledge workers: are stock options the best way? From subordinates into fellow executives, and from employees - however well paid - into partners, instead of mere shareholders. Basing leadership on values instead of charisma or greed. The importance of making people investments with strategic vision.

Duration

40 mins

Distributor

Name

MTS Publishers

Email

mtspublishers@mtspublishers.com

Web

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Phone

020 7389 0689

Fax

020 7930 8587

Address

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