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important work gets done in informal meetings around the coffee pot, but will this matter when
meeting at the coffee pot is a virtual experience? And what about organizations? What will we
need organizations for? Will employees—at least talented, symbolic workers like you will be—
need organizations? Or will they band together in temporary teams, work together, and then
band together in another way?
Bring this closer to home. What about classrooms?
Why go to class if you have a classroom in a box? Let’s phrase this differently because the
traditional classroom does have value, especially to those students who learn from comments
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and questions asked by more able students. Put it this way: Suppose you can go to a traditional
classroom for $25,000 a year or go to the classroom in a box for $3,500 per year. Either way, you
earn a degree; maybe the box’s degree is not as prestigious, but it is an accredited degree. Which
would you choose?
We’ll take a 2025 look at the end of each chapter. For now, just realize one certainty:
Knowledge of information systems and their use in business will be more important,
not less.

11 Louise Nemanich, Michael Banks, and Dusya Vera, “Enhancing Knowledge Transfer in Classroom Versus
OnLine Settings: The Interplay Among Instructor, Student, and Context,” Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative
Education 7, no. 1 (2009): 140.