Going Virtual: Moving Your Organization Into the 21st Century [Paperback]

Raymond Grenier (Author), George Metes (Author), Ray Grenier (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 15, 1995

Any manager, including organizational decision makers and influencers committed to the virtual organization; leaders and members of value-adding non-collocated work teams, processes; middle managers, product managers, process re-engineering experts, IS and network managers, MBA curriculum designers, distance learning professionals, teachers and students. Helps managers understand the true implications of "the virtual organization," and how to implement it. This is the first book to extend the definition of "virtual" beyond the basics, describing exactly how virtual teams work together using networked, electronic information and communications systems. Covers the electronic operations, cultural implications and technologies of virtual operations, including strategies for training and technology investment. This book helps organizations re- engineer while moving at full speed.

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Helps managers understand the true implications of "the virtual organization," and how to implement it. This is the first book to extend the definition of "virtual" beyond the basics, describing exactly how virtual teams work together using networked, electronic informaton and communications systems. Covers the electronic operations, cultural implications and technologies of virtual operations, including strategies for training and technology investment. This book helps organizations re-engineer while moving at full speed. Any manager, including organizational decision makers and influencers committed to the virtual organization; leaders and members of value-adding non-collocated work teams, processes; middle managers, product managers, process re-engineering experts, IS and network managers, MBA curriculum designers, distance learning professionals, teachers and students.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR; 1st edition (August 15, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 013185299X
• ISBN-13: 978-0131852990
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,687,970 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I threw it aside in disgust, February 12, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Going Virtual: Moving Your Organization Into the 21st Century (Paperback)

A poxy book - between the front and back covers is a lot of air in which the word "virtual" is said 3 times in every sentence. Take the word out and you have one of those ghastly management texts written from a belief system without any real practical backup. The tenets are unbelievably ignorant in some cases. Anyone who can say that executives who express preference for face-to-face communication are being defensive doesn't know a thing about socialisation or tacit knowledge processes. They must think the world can be ordered around aka the military model. oh whoops, one of the authors spent 35 years as a career officer in the USAF. So if you are into military-type operations where commands can be relayed over sophisticated networks, this book is for you. If you are interested in the boundaryless organisation and the meaning for social behaviour, steer clear.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fantastically written book. Chapters 18-22: the best, October 9, 2002

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Ted Cottingham (Tulsa, Ok United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Going Virtual: Moving Your Organization Into the 21st Century (Paperback)

Chapters 18-22 are worth more than the price of the book. The farther I read the more impressed I was. In the beginning I was wondering about its value but it has proved invaluable to me. It's a reference tool that I find myself going to repeatedly. I highly recommend it, even though it was written in 1995, I don't know its equal. Posted 10-2002.

3 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars :-), June 12, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Going Virtual: Moving Your Organization Into the 21st Century (Paperback)

A very realistic book about the organizational transformation in the '90s An Excellent set of atoms for having in your own home.