Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction; The Economic Imperatives of Knowledge: New Organizations for a New Era; CREATING THE INTERNAL ENTERPRISE SYSTEM; A Small Government Solution to Big City Problems; Transforming Organizations into Market Economies; Reintroducing Alcoa to Economic Reality; Market-Based Management at Koch Industries; Lufthansa Soars on Internal Markets; FORMING A NETWORK OF COOPERATIVE ALLIANCES; Knowledge Companies; The Spherical Network organization; The Age of the Network; Novell's Ten- Thousand- Piece Puzzle; Managing the Virtual Organization; LEVERAGING KNOWLEDGETH AN INTELLIGENT INFRASTRUCTURE; Our Vision of the Information Superhighway; Taking a Byte Out of Bureaucracy; Welcome to the Revolution; The Intelligent Organization; An Advertising Agency Without Walls; Riding the Information Tiger.

Harness the Boundless Power of Knowledge Take a fascinating glimpse into the not-too-distant future. In The Infinite Resource, seventeen visionary thinkers explore knowledge-the only inexhaustible source of competitive advantage-as the juggernaut of an remarkable new order whose advent is fast rendering today's business conventions obsolete. Their incisive observations include up-to-the-minute examinations of knowledge-change initiatives currently under way at Bell Atlantic, MCI, Lufthansa, and other forward-thinking companies. Filled with fresh ideas, perspectives, and voices, it's a state-of-the-art appraisal of emerging organizational forms vital to anyone grappling with the challenges and possibilities posed by the Information Age.