Informated+Organization

Informated Organizations/Workplaces (Points of Interest From Reading)

 * Technology has the power to reorder the organizational rules
 * The need for learning associated with new technologies require new divisions of labor, learning etc.
 * Information developments make work more abstract and less hands on, with the stress increasingly on software
 * Managing in an informated environment is a delicate human process. The ability to use information for real business benefit is as much a function of the quality of commitment and realtionships as it is a function of the quality of intellective skills
 * Informated organizations contrast the concept of automation
 * Focus is more on high commitment approaches to handling the workforce, with emphasis on teams
 * Requirements of an informating strategy support existing workforce management, with its emphasis on self-managing teams, participation and decentralization
 * An informating strategy requires a comprehensive vision based upon an understanding of the unique capacities of intelligent technologies and the oppurtunity to use the organization to liberate those capacities