Thomas Malone
617-252-2372
mehdi_britel@monitor.com
The Future of Work
Imagine organizations where bosses give employees huge freedom to decide what to do and when to do it. Imagine organizations where most workers aren’t employees at all, but electronically connected freelancers living wherever they want to. And imagine that all this freedom in business lets people get more of whatever they really want in life—money, interesting work, helping other people, or time with their families.
In this presentation, renowned organizational theorist Thomas W. Malone shows where these things are already happening today and how—if we choose—they can happen much more in the future. Malone argues that a convergence of technological and economic factors—particularly the rapidly falling cost of communication—is enabling a change in business organizations as profound as the shift to democracy in governments.
Based on 20 years of groundbreaking research, this presentation provides compelling models for actually designing the “company of the future.”
Visionary and convincing, Tom shows how technology now offers us the choice of creating a world that is not just richer, but better.
Mapping the “Genomes” of Collective Intelligence
While people have talked about collective intelligence for decades, new communication technologies—especially the Internet—now allow huge numbers of people all over the planet to work together in new ways. The successes of systems like Google and Wikipedia suggest that the time is now ripe for many more such systems. The goal of this presentation, based on researched lead by Tom at the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, is to understand how to take advantage of these possibilities.
In this talk, Tom will address such questions as: What is collective intelligence? What are the key design patterns (or “genes”) that appear repeatedly in some of today’s most innovative crowd-based organizations? In what situations are these different design patterns appropriate? He will also discuss additional work being done on how to measure collective intelligence, and how to harness it for addressing complex business and societal problems such as climate change and strategy formulation.
