In this dynamic book, based on the most effective strategies of IBM and other market leaders, managers will learn to successfully transform their organizations into a business prepared to compete in a networked age. Mainframes, client servers, PCs, networks, e-business, the Internet, databases, technical management--indeed, in the brave new business world facing today's firms only one thing is certain: change. And when looking for a model for corporate change, one should look no further than IBM. In this decade, IBM has gone from a company with less than $60 billion in unprofitable...
In this dynamic book, based on the most effective strategies of IBM and other market leaders, managers will learn to successfully transform their orga...
This book makes the startling case that North Americans were getting on the "information highway" as early as the 1700's, and have been using it as a critical building block of their social, economic, and political world ever since. By the time of the founding of the United States, there was a postal system and roads for the distribution of mail copyright laws to protect intellectual property, and newspapers, books, and broadsides to bring information to a populace that was building a nation on the basis of an informed electorate. In the 19th century, Americans developed the telegraph,...
This book makes the startling case that North Americans were getting on the "information highway" as early as the 1700's, and have been using it as a ...
The Digital Hand, Volume 2, is a historical survey of how computers and telecommunications have been deployed in over a dozen industries in the financial, telecommunications, media and entertainment sectors over the past half century. It is past of a sweeping three-volume description of how management in some forty industries embraced the computer and changed the American economy. Computers have fundamentally changed the nature of work in America. However it is difficult to grasp the full extent of these changes and their implications for the future of business. To begin the long...
The Digital Hand, Volume 2, is a historical survey of how computers and telecommunications have been deployed in over a dozen industries in ...
In The Digital Hand, James W. Cortada combines detailed analysis with narrative history to provide a broad overview of computing's role in sixteen industries, accounting for nearly half of the U.S. economy. Beginning in 1950, when commercial applications of digital technology began to appear, Cortada examines the ways different industries adopted new technologies, as well as the ways their innovative applications influenced other industries and the U.S economy. In addition, to this account of computers' impact on industry, Cortada also demonstrates how industries themselves...
In The Digital Hand, James W. Cortada combines detailed analysis with narrative history to provide a broad overview of computing's role in si...
As millions of people have been exposed to computing through the tremendous growth of microcomputers, there has developed an increasing appreciation of the history of data processing, which dates back many decades before the arrival of the computer. Stretching back to at least the 1860s, such early technologies as adding machines, punch cards, and the office appliance industry are now being recognized for their place in the history of the information processing industry. This work brings together a comprehensive list of sources that offer a general introduction to the literature of the...
As millions of people have been exposed to computing through the tremendous growth of microcomputers, there has developed an increasing appreciatio...
Complementing the author's 1990 bibliography, "A Bibliographic Guide to the History of Computing, Computers, and the Information Processing Industry," this bibliography provides 2,500 new citations, covering all significant literature published since the late 1980s. It includes all aspects of the subject--biographies, company histories, industry studies, product descriptions, sociological studies, industry directories, and traditional monographic histories--and covers all periods from the beginnings to the personal computer. New to this volume is a chapter on the management of information...
Complementing the author's 1990 bibliography, "A Bibliographic Guide to the History of Computing, Computers, and the Information Processing Industr...
Covering over 40 industries and dozens of applications, this is the first bibliography on the history of computer applications. After an introductory essay on the history of applications, the volume is divided into two time periods and includes over 1,600 entries, arranged by application and industry. Users will find sections on such fields as higher education, manufacturing, law enforcement, accounting, space travel, ATMs, artificial intelligence, banking, and trucking. Entries are annotated to describe their content and, when appropriate, their historical significance.
Compiled by a...
Covering over 40 industries and dozens of applications, this is the first bibliography on the history of computer applications. After an introducto...
A collection of essays which provide an historical perspective on knowledge workers. The articles show how knowledge workers evolved from manufacturing and agricultural jobs whilst providing an insight into their future role. The essays are written by historians, sociologists, academics and economic experts.
A collection of essays which provide an historical perspective on knowledge workers. The articles show how knowledge workers evolved from manufacturin...
This yearbook is designed as an anthology and reference for people in any type of organization who are seeking to implement knowledge management techniques. It includes a wide variety of current articles. It covers the nature of knowledge and its management, knowledge-based strategies, knowledge management and organizational learning, and knowledge tools, techniques and processes. The reference section includes a directory of knowledge management (KM) resources on-line, a directory of publications dealing with KM, a directory of organizations dealing with KM, quotes on KM, and a glossary of...
This yearbook is designed as an anthology and reference for people in any type of organization who are seeking to implement knowledge management techn...
