Title: The organization and architecture of innovation
Description: "Building on his pioneering work on the management of technology and innovation in his first book, Managing the Flow of Technology, Thomas J. Allen of MIT has joined with award-winning German architect Gunter Henn of HENN Architekten to produce a book that explores the combined use of two management tools to make the innovation process most effective: organizational structure and physical space. The authors present research demonstrating how organizational structure and physical space each affect communication among people - in this case, engineers, scientists, and others in technical organizations - and they illustrate how organizations can transform both to increase the transfer of technical knowledge and maximize the "communication for inspiration" that is central to the innovation process."--Jacket.
Subjects: Communication in organizations, Communication of technical information, Office layout, Knowledge management, Organizational behavior, Organizational change, Communication dans les organisations, Information technique, Bureaux, Aménagement, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS, Business Communication, General, Architecture and technology, Space (Architecture)