IMS Project SYMPHONY: On the management of knowledge-based, adaptive organisations in the knowledge-driven economy

The IMS project SYMPHONY aims at equipping its target group, consisting of high-tech or service oriented companies with high-information part in their value chain including start-ups, SMEs and modular units of large companies, with a systemic and dynamic management methodology with modular and integrated methods and tools supporting them in their two main management concerns: (1) management of responsiveness and adaptation in a dynamic environment; (2) management of growth and leveraging of capabilities. This paper specifically addresses the current economical environment