IX

Preface

NO MORE LIMITS. Can it be true? We believe it is. Take a look around you. We are witnessing the end of the organization as we know it. We are moving toward a time when organizations mean… well, nothing. Just as knowledge flows faster than business’s ability to capture it, so innovative businesses evolve faster than their managers’ ability to imagine new and more suitable organizational forms.

We are moving into an age when zero rules. In the old economy, zero meant nothing; in the knowledge-based economy it means everything. We talk about zero stocks, zero lead time, zero response time, zero emissions. For many companies these terms define the future; for others, they pose a seemingly insurmountable threat to the very foundations ...

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