Listening to the future
Subtitle: are you ready for what's next?
By: Daniel W. Rasmus with Rob Salkowitz.
Contributors: Salkowitz, Rob, 1967-
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780470413449
Subjects: Strategic planning; Uncertainty; Organizational change
Notes: Microsoft executive leadership series

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Listening to the future; title: Embracing uncertainty; title: The shape of things to come; title: Technology and the changing world; title: People make the future; title: Note; title: : Managing a dynamic business; title: Driving forces; title: Strategic technology capabilities; title: Tenets for success; title: Dynamic business : forces to watch, uncertainties to consider; title: Notes; title: : prospering in a blended world; title: Driving forces; title: Strategic workplace technologies; title: Blending beyond the workplace; title: Tenets for success; title: Blend trends; title: Notes; title: : Insights from complexity; title: Driving forces; title: Strategic technologies to drive insights; title: Tenets for success; title: Sources of insight; title: Notes; title: : Building strategic advantage through it; title: The challenge of measuring return on knowledge; title: Why it matters; title: Why applications matter; title: Why platforms matter; title: Why infrastructure matters; title: Creating a dialog between business and it; title: Tenets for success; title: Why it still matters; title: Ways to achieve more strategic it; title: Key infrastructure investments for competitive advantage; title: Notes; title: : from the new world of business to the new world of work; title: World of business; title: Always on, always connected; title: Transparent organizations; title: Workforce evolution; title: Notes; title: : Managing knowledge and talent in the new world of business; title: Managing knowledge in one world of business; title: Knowledge anywhere, anytime; title: Knowledge in the transparent organization; title: Managing knowledge for a changing workforce; title: From ?Knowledge management? To managing talent and knowledge; title: Complexity and specialization; title: Simplifying the knowledge work environment; title: Toward a dynamic knowledge environment; title: Navigating the dynamic knowledge environment; title: Embracing organizational learning; title: Starting points for dynamics knowledge enterprises; title: Notes; title: : The future of industries; title: Manufacturing; title: Retail; title: Government/public sector; title: Retail banking and insurance; title: Healthcare; title: Education; title: Professional services; title: : Hearing the future; title: Strategy and uncertainties; title: Exposing the dynamic uncertainty loop; title: Conclusions.