Thomas Malone is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management and founding director of its Center for Collective Intelligence. He is also a founding codirector of MIT’s Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century initiative and author of The Future of Work.
The large, hierarchical corporations that dominated business in the 20th century will not completely disappear, but they will become less important. In their place will be new, more flexible ways of organizing large-scale work that provide great freedom and take advantage of people’s energy and creativity. All of them will depend on the Internet.
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The Stanford Social Innovation Review is written for and by social change leaders in the nonprofit, business, and government sectors. Sample articles of particular interest to readers of What Matters are available below.
by Ben Hecht. Living Cities is working with five US municipalities to develop an ecosystem for solving urban problems.
by Clayton M. Christensen, Shuman Talukdar, Richard Alton, and Michael B. Horn. Unless clean tech follows well-established rules of innovation and commercialization, the industry’s promise to provide sustainable sources of energy will fail.