How will autonomous agents, emergent systems, and chaos theory
change the way we live and work in the twenty-first century? As
today's manufacturing and production systems grow increasingly
complex, tomorrow's science of complexity will produce
paradoxically simple solutions, argue technology experts Patricia
Moody and Richard Morley in this astonishing vision of the year
2020.
Containing both cutting-edge insights and simple truths that
provide a roadmap to the future of business -- and illustrated by
case examples from such companies as Motorola, Honda, GM,
Solectron, Intel, Silicon Graphics, Modicon, Flavors, NeXT,
Japanese Railway, and Andover Controls -- "The Technology Machine"
challenges readers to understand the spirit and core drivers of
growth: technology, knowledge, and individual excellence.
By combining rigorous research with their extensive experience
with technology advances that have changed industry, Moody and
Morley are able to supply simple guidelines for future growth and
detail their keen vision of future systems, leaders, and workers.
They isolate the three bad business habits at the root of
manufacturing problems today -- shortsightedness, restrictive
structures, and unbalanced improvement fads -- show how to break
them, and supply four infallible predictors of the types of
breakthrough technologies that will come to dominate the world of
the future. In that world, customers and suppliers are linked by
real-time, online systems; business is driven by customer-designed,
point-of-consumption replication of product; and a wide gap grows
between "The Island of Excellence" organization of the future --
with its holistic approach, including two-year apprenticeships,
uniforms, and morning exercises -- and "The Others," the non-elite,
sweatshop-like, breakeven companies of the past. The book is
eloquent, original, and essential reading for managers in every
area of business and industry.
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