[MTC Global] Alvin Toffler and Peter Drucker: Glimpses of 21st Century

Glimpses of 21st Century- Think Globally

Alvin Toffler in his famous book 'Future Shock' Says " To help  avert future shock, we must create a super industrial education system and to do this, we must search for our objective methods in the future rather than the past... Education must shift into future tense."

American thinkers, Alvin Toffler and Peter Drucker have predicted the following changes in the socio- economic life.

1. The Society of 21st Century would be the 'non- socialist and post -capitalist' society.

2.Manufacturing sector would lose its importance and service sector will make significant contribution in national income. There would be 'service revolution' in the world.

3.Knowledge and Information rather than 'capital' would be the main source of economic development. Hence there would be knowledge workers, knowledge society, knowledge executives etc.

4. Due to the information technology revolution, future business offices would be 'paper -less' . And gradually business world would move towards ' office elimination'.

5.Future business organizations would be flat, networking and ad-hoc. The organization would be virtual and learning organization.

6. The task of Personnel Manager would be more challenging as well as more difficult because management will have do deal with knowledge workers. HRD, rather than HRM, would be the main activity of future managers.

7. Factory system of mass production would totally change. Japan has already invented the new approach to manufacturing, ie. electronic cottages and lean production. Production would be of non -identical goods. The production system will go beyond mass production and the world over, the corporate sector would face the problem of identity crises.

8. Because of the information boom and communication revolution, there would be the direct contact between consumer and producer and hence the existing chain of distribution will disappear. Sky Marketing, Internet Marketing, Market Ownership, Solution marketing, Delighted customers etc. would be the new concept of future marketing management.

9. Toffler has predicated that the world would be back into small isolated complete self sufficient blocks.

10. Future Careers would be

• Knowledge based
• Information intensive
• Highly mobile across the world
• Highly rewarding
• And on a fast tract

 

 

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Bholanath Dutta

Founder, President & Convener: MTC Global

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