M cCracken was perhaps the most profound. He identified four trends that will define SGI into the future. First, it is a small planet, meaning distance no longer matters. Global competition and the Internet does. S econd, experience and seniority no longer matter, but performance does.
Managers have to drop the school teacher model, and replace it with the performance athlete model.
T hird, McCracken is suddenly aware of the conversion from industrial age management to information age management, e.g., fast decisions require delegation of responsibility and authority. This forces the organization to pass more information down to the lowest levels of the organization to prevent chaos. Unless your organization can do this, all else is lost. F ourth, for every 100-fold change in technology, expect a paradigm shift. At today's pace, it takes less than a decade to implement a 100-fold change in technology.