Future Perfect - Softcover

Davis, Stanley M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0201517930 ISBN 13: 9780201517934

Publisher: Basic Books, 1989

Synopsis

Hailed as the "Book of the Decade" by bestselling author Tom Peters, Future Perfect explores the innovative business and organizational possibilities existing within the New Economy. Offering concrete models and bold examples, Davis shows how an organization can learn to manage in the future tense as a way to ensure success in the coming decades. "Packed with powerful ideas. I enjoyed it immensely."--John Sculley, Apple Computer.

About this title

About the Author:

Stan Davis, a well-known visionary business thinker, is the author of eight influential books, including the bestselling Future Perfect, recipient of Tom Peters' Book of the Decade” Award. Formerly on the faculty of Harvard Business School, Columbia University, and Boston University, he's now an independent consultant and research fellow at Ernst & Young's Center for Business Innovation in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Christopher Meyer, a leading business consultant and lecturer, is director of Ernst and Young's Center for Business Innovation. With over twenty years' experience in general management and economic consulting, he is an authority on the evolution of the information economy and its impact on business.

From Library Journal:

Davis builds on an important vision that structure and style of organizational culture are the result of changes in the external environment, especially in science and technology. He presents examples featuring such high-tech wizardry as holograms, parallel processing, microcircuitry, and genetic engineering, and describes how Federal Express rose to prominence because its founder visualized how technology could be used to achieve overnight delivery. Unfortunately, much of this work trots out well-worn business anecdotes. Recommended only for general collections. BOMC/Fortune alternate.Gene R. Laczniak, Marquette Univ., Milwaukee
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0201517930
• ISBN 13: 9780201517934
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 243