Super-Flexibility for Knowledge Enterprises A Toolkit for Dynamic Adaptation /

• Main Authors: Bahrami, Homa (Author), Evans, Stuart (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Subjects: Business.; Knowledge management.; Organization.; Planning.; Information technology.; Business > Data processing.; Business and Management.; Knowledge Management.; IT in Business.

Today, we live in a dynamic and inter-connected world. A multitude of "revision triggers" make it necessary to anticipate, prepare for, and continuously adapt to new realities. The key to dynamic adaptation we argue, is to become "super-flexible". Super-flexibility is defined as...

Table of Contents:

• Super-Flexibility: A Toolkit for Dynamic Adaptation
• Conceptual Foundations of Super-Flexibility: A Multi-Disciplinary Synthesis
• The Research Laboratory: Silicon Valley’s Knowledge Ecosystem
• Super-Flexible Ecosystems: Innovating by Recycling
• Super-Flexible Strategies: Shifting Gears and Maneuvering Swift Turns
• Super-Flexible Execution: Experimenting, Iterating and Recalibrating
• Super-Flexible Organizations: Orgitechting Geo-Distributed Federations
• Super-Flexible Leadership: Aligning Knowledge Workers Through Peer-Peer Practices
• Becoming Super-Flexible: The Enterprise in Motion.