Thomas W. Malone. Thomas W. Malone Thomas W. Malone (born 1952) is an American organizational theorist, management consultant, and the Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Biography[edit] Malone received his BA magna cum laude in applied mathematics from Rice University, and at Stanford University his MS in engineering-economic systems, and his Ph.D. in cognitive and social psychology.[1] After graduation Malone started his career as research scientist at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), where he was involved in designing educational software and office information systems. Work[edit] Malones' research focuses on how new organizations can be designed to take advantage of the possibilities provided by information technology. The past two decades of Professor Malone’s research is summarized in his book The Future of Work: How the New Order of Business Will Shape Your Organization, Your Management Style, and Your Life.
Video game design[edit] Thomas W. Thomas W. Malone Home Page. Thomas W. Malone is the Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. He was also the founder and director of the MIT Center for Coordination Science and one of the two founding co-directors of the MIT Initiative on "Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century. " Professor Malone teaches classes on organizational design, information technology, and leadership, and his research focuses on how work can be organized in new ways to take advantage of the possibilities provided by information technology. For example, Professor Malone predicted, in an article published in 1987, many of the major developments in electronic business over the following 25 years: electronic buying and selling, electronic markets for many kinds of products, outsourcing of non-core functions in a firm, and the use of intelligent agents for commerce.
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Six weeks later, I had nothing. Looking back, I really didn’t have the right reasons to outsource in the first place. When I was outsourcing my tasks, I walked around campus arrogantly. In those days, I outsourced tasks like, “Determine the market size of Israel-based startups by writing a 30-page paper supporting your findings.” There’s two lessons in the story above: First, fail fast and move on. Why Outsourcing is Important The thesis of this book doesn’t center around getting organized and concentrating better.
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