HomeTagsCoase

Tag: coase

The great illusion of technological productivity gains (including AI)

For more than half a century, each technological wave has been accompanied by the same promise: to produce more, faster and at lower cost. We heard it when microcomputers arrived in the 1980s, during the massive rollout of ERP systems in the 1990s, when the internet and then mobile technology burst onto the scene, and again today with artificial intelligence. It's always the same promise, always the same narrative of a historic breakthrough that is supposed to transform productivity. And yet history tells us something else. The gains appear later than hoped...

The great illusion of technological productivity gains (including AI)

For more than half a century, each technological wave has been accompanied by the same promise: to produce more, faster and at lower cost. We...

Are you familiar with Coase’s law on transaction costs and its impact on capturing productivity gains?

With every technological wave, we always hear the same promise: to produce more, faster, with fewer resources. Yet the same question always comes up:...

Does the web really decrease transaction costs ?

Transaction costs are a common argument to justify the need to transform organizations. As a matter of fact, if enterprises as we know them...

The future of enterprise (#1) : the status quo

The future of enterprise and management raises lots of suppositions, fantasies and concerns. The current model is defective and that's a point no one...

Too big to last ?

Is the myth of the "critical size" close to its end ? The concept of enterprise always comes with the concept of "growth". Growth...

Can enterprises organize themselves as markets

What's a market ? It's a place when offer meets demand. Companies love markets because it's the more efficient way to find outlets for their...

Do enterprises really outsource the right things ?

Some of my reflections point to the slow but unavoidable outsourcing of the human side of the enterprise. First because of organization models and systems...

Once knowledge will be outsourced, enterprises will only be expertise coordinators

In a previous post I was saying that, one day, enterprise's main role will be to organize a value chain and coordinate expertises, some...

Can we organize without organization ?

In a previous post I was wondering if we were heading to what I called a project or a partnership economy. In the same...
12Page 1 of 2

Follow me :

About

Main categories

Recommended BookmarksCollaborationManagementHuman resourcesDigital usesIntranets and digital workplaceTechnology and SoftwareEmployee ExperienceCustomer relationshipDigital Transformation
Styled Text

This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International