Thursday, August 21, 2008

New ways to be big

Writing in his Enterprise blog on ReadWriteWeb, Bernard Lunn displays remarkable insight into how powerful forces, including social media and the changing of the guard as Boomers leave the workforce,  are changing the structure and organization of the firm:

That is huge opportunity for a lot of start-ups. There has never been a better time to be an entrepreneur. It also a huge challenge for the incumbents. Big companies need to re-define themselves in fundamental ways to find new ways to be big in a meaningful way.

In ten years, what will a "big" company look like?

Read: Enterprise 2.0: The Nature of the Firm - ReadWriteWeb