Well Gautam, first of all, you left me wondering that if tommorow organizations
are like a movie unit, what role I will be playing in that.

On a serious note, I think what you have outlined in your message is quite
possible. But in this concept, the whole idea of the Living company is lost. I
may be entirely wrong in my observation about what Living companies are all
about, but I think- to have this kind of situation, some of the things are
absolutely critical-

1. To get involved in a series of activities to achieve a desired objective and
then disbands the teams, presupposes that there is enough mobility of labour and
skill sets.And whatever little experience I have had in past 16 months of my
working, I think it takes a hell of a time to build a cutting edge capability
level, no matter what educational background you are from. And Gautam, if you
look at the current education set-up, most of us are trained in a very general
and loose framwork, and it takes time to acquire a skill set, which may be
directly applied to a given situation like what you mentioned- a movie unit.
2. Companies dont exist just to create products or services, that is perhaps the
beginning. There are host of activities which happen, after you have created a
product, to take care of that, you need to have some stable component in your
organization.
3. I think it take quite a lot of time to have 'build to last' organizations.
even if you look at organisations as a 'Knowledge entity', the knowledge
component consists of not only the technical details and commercial parameters,
but also a significant portion is taken up by the culture, shared values and
systems.

In my view, though there is an impetus to have assignment focussed teams and
systems, it still does not replace the old age concept of 'long life' entities.

My 2 cents to the discussion,

Best Regards,
Amita

hi Rajeev

organizations should eventually become that ultimate
knowledge organization - A movie unit !


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