My sincerest apologies to my supervisors, and also a big thank you for your understanding and patience. The events of these past few weeks have somewhat derailed the progress of my degree. However, slowly but surely I’m recomposing myself, regathering my thoughts and started writing again.

While I was waiting at the hospital, I’ve managed to read through a number of books. One of my recent favourite is the Harvard Business Review on Knowledge Management. Suprise suprise, the first article reviewed was the work of Ikujiro Nonaka. Just so happened, I discussed the works of Nonaka on my last supervisor meeting. I mentioned the revelation Nonaka made, regarding the so-called “hypertext organisation”. One of the thing that captured my attention was the inverted pyramid which represents this new organisational model. Nonaka was half-right, I believe. He predicted the coming of the internet and how it would transform the way knowledge is created within a company. However, the prediction did not come true until the coming of Web2.0 technologies. I realised that I might be on to something big.

Can we really say that in 50 years, the management model of companies will be nothing like what it is today? But perhaps we don’t need to look that far, and just look at the next 10 years. How would company be managed in 10 years time? Or better, how would the young generation changed how IT is managed in 10 years time? More on this later…