Organizations as Learning Systems: 'Living Composition' as an Enabling Infrastructure
ISBN: 9780080439198 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The main contribution of this book is the living composition, the model of living organizations. It is a new and original interpretation of the theory of living, self-producing systems (autopoiesis theory). Living composition is defined here as strategic components and their relationships. A living organization is thereby a self-producing system that is composed of ten different non-physical strategic components that are continually produced by the organization itself. The components and their relationships are defined so that they enable and facilitate interconnected openness and closure,...
The main contribution of this book is the living composition, the model of living organizations. It is a new and original interpretation of the theory...
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942,33 zł |
Data Model Patterns: A Metadata Map
ISBN: 9780120887989 / Angielski / Twarda / 406 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Data Model Patterns: A Metadata Map not only presents a conceptual model of a metadata repository but also demonstrates a true enterprise data model of the information technology industry itself. It provides a step-by-step description of the model and is organized so that different readers can benefit from different parts. It offers a view of the world being addressed by all the techniques, methods, and tools of the information processing industry (for example, object-oriented design, CASE, business process re-engineering, etc.) and presents several concepts that need to be... Data Model Patterns: A Metadata Map not only presents a conceptual model of a metadata repository but also demonstrates a true enterprise da... |
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344,26 zł |
On Time Technology Implementation
ISBN: 9780124499751 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Features: * On Time Technology Implementation presents technology implementation guidelines and lessons learned from over 30 years of successful, hands-on project experience. Covers: * How to prevent the top 10 reasons for implementation failure * Over 200 specific guidelines and lessons learned * How to implement electronic commerce * Five example companies from banking, insurance, transportation, government, and manufacturing * How to use intranet and object oriented methods for maximum advantage * How to cope with the burden of maintenance, enhancement, and production support * How to...
Features: * On Time Technology Implementation presents technology implementation guidelines and lessons learned from over 30 years of successful, hand...
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339,05 zł |
Digital Business : Concepts and strategies
ISBN: 9780131400979 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As businesses adapt to the realities of the digital world and build on the hard-won insights of the digital business pioneers, increasing importance is placed on the need to understand how traditional concepts of business strategy and implementation are influenced by the Internet, and to identify the novel aspects of business that are made possible by the Internet. That is why this book was written.
As businesses adapt to the realities of the digital world and build on the hard-won insights of the digital business pioneers, increasing importanc... |
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808,63 zł |
The Corporation of the 1990s: Information Technology and Organizational Transformation
ISBN: 9780195063585 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the invention of the telegraph, information technology (IT) has revolutionized the way we communicate, the way we do business, and the way we live. From the telephone to the fax machine, the Hollerith tabulating machine to the modern-day computer, IT has collapsed time and distance, becoming indispensable in today's world economy. And yet, though businesses and organizations have spent tremendous amounts of money on computer hardware and software, these investments in IT have not raised most organizations' productivity or profitability. How can organizations make better use of the...
Since the invention of the telegraph, information technology (IT) has revolutionized the way we communicate, the way we do business, and the way we li...
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191,59 zł |
Information Technology and the Corporation of the 1990s: Research Studies
ISBN: 9780195068061 / Angielski / Twarda / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the most pathbreaking and influential business books of the 1990s is The Corporation of the 1990s by Michael Scott Morton. Its expert view of how information technology would influence organizations and their ability to survive and prosper in the 1990s has become the benchmark of thinking about information technology. Now, in a supporting companion volume, Information Technology and the Corporation of the 1990s makes available the research on which The Corporation of the 1990s was based. The research was conducted at the Sloan School of Management at MIT by...
One of the most pathbreaking and influential business books of the 1990s is The Corporation of the 1990s by Michael Scott Morton. Its expert ...
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648,81 zł |
Valuable Disconnects in Organizational Learning Systems: Integrating Bold Visions and Harsh Realities
ISBN: 9780195089066 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Valuable Disconnects in Organizational Learning Systems: Integrating Bold Visions and Harsh Realities offers a comprehensive framework for understanding how knowledge, skills and capabilities are developed in organizations--and how this process offers deep insights into the predictable barriers to success. Written in a clear, accessible style, it highlights the crucial part "disconnects" play in the learning cycle--a role that it is essential to understand in today's increasingly knowledge-driven work systems.
The conceptual framework of the text is grounded in scholarly research... Valuable Disconnects in Organizational Learning Systems: Integrating Bold Visions and Harsh Realities offers a comprehensive framework for un...
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919,11 zł |
Information Technology and the Productivity Paradox: Assessing the Value of Investing in It
ISBN: 9780195121599 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From networks to databases, email to voicemail, the amount of capital being invested in information technology each year is staggering. By 1996, U.S. firms were spending more than $500 billion annually on software, networks and staff. The recently merged Bank of America and NationsBank have an initial IT budget of 4 billion dollars. As firms like this push rapidly into the business world of the 21st century, the question has remained: how do firms measure returns from these substantial investments in information technology? Henry C. Lucas, effectively answers this question by providing a...
From networks to databases, email to voicemail, the amount of capital being invested in information technology each year is staggering. By 1996, U.S. ...
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157,00 zł |
A Nation Transformed by Information: How Information Has Shaped the United States from Colonial Times to the Present
ISBN: 9780195128147 / Angielski / Miękka / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 ...
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258,36 zł |
Knowledge Emergence: Social, Technical, and Evolutionary Dimensions of Knowledge Creation
ISBN: 9780195130638 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book brings together the research of a number of scholars in the field of knowledge creation and imparts a sense of order to the field. The chapters share three characteristics: they are all grounded in extensive qualitative and/or quantitative research; they all go beyond the mere description of the knowledge-creation process and offer both theoretical and strategic implications; they share a view of knowledge creation and knowledge transfer as delicate processes, necessitating particular forms of support from managers.
This book brings together the research of a number of scholars in the field of knowledge creation and imparts a sense of order to the field. The chapt...
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416,51 zł |
The Strategic Management of Intellectual Capital and Organizational Knowledge
ISBN: 9780195138665 / Angielski / Miękka / 768 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Increasingly, the challenge of management is to create and supply knowledge in order to sustain organizational performance. However, few books on management strategy have been written using this concept as a foundation. This unique volume adopts a knowledge-based approach that will complement and perhaps supplant other perspectives. Editors Nick Bontis and Chun Wei Choo look at the literature through the lens of strategic management and from the vantage point of organizational science. The thirty readings have been carefully selected and commissioned to provide the best literature...
Increasingly, the challenge of management is to create and supply knowledge in order to sustain organizational performance. However, few books on mana...
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772,37 zł |
Information Technology Strategies: How Leading Firms Use It to Gain an Advantage
ISBN: 9780195148138 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The focus of this book is to educate the reader on the strategic principles fundamental to using information technology to gain market control. It provides case examples of how to use IT to enhance existing core competencies and strategies. The book is designed to help managers struggling with how to advantageously harness the new information revolution. It can also support executive and business education programs on managing technology when few such studies exist. While Internet and information technologies are currently hot topics many firms and executives are without the tools and...
The focus of this book is to educate the reader on the strategic principles fundamental to using information technology to gain market control. It pro...
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248,43 zł |
Knowledge Creation and Management: New Challenges for Managers
ISBN: 9780195159622 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents the latest management ideas in knowledge creation and management in readable and non-technical chapters. Leading experts have contributed chapters in their fields of expertise. Each distils his or her subject in a chapter that is accessible to managers who want to learn what can be applied to their organizations without the distracting details of research methodology. Each chapter, however, is based on careful research. The book is organized so that readers can easily find chapters of most interest and value to them. The emphasis is on the practical applications of...
This book presents the latest management ideas in knowledge creation and management in readable and non-technical chapters. Leading experts have contr...
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317,67 zł |
Knowledge Capital: How Knowledge-Based Enterprises Really Get Built
ISBN: 9780195161144 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Knowledge Capital: How Knowledge-Based Enterprises Really Get Built is an integrated, structured set of conversations with thought leaders and key practitioners in the fields of intellectual capital and knowledge management, who examine-in the form of conversations-the steps necessary for creating and implementing the various dimensions of a knowledge-based enterprise. These are the dimensions that need to be effectively addressed for the organization to successfully make the transition from an activity-based organization to a truly knowledge-based enterprise. The conversations that...
Knowledge Capital: How Knowledge-Based Enterprises Really Get Built is an integrated, structured set of conversations with thought leaders an...
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396,74 zł |
The Digital Hand, Vol 3: How Computers Changed the Work of American Public Sector Industries
ISBN: 9780195165869 / Angielski / Twarda / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The third volume of The Digital Hand, James W. Cortada completes his sweeping survey of the effect of computers on American industry, turning finally to the public sector, and examining how computers have fundamentally changed the nature of work in government and education. This book goes far beyond generalizations about the Information Age to the specifics of how industries have functioned, now function, and will function in the years to come. Cortada combines detailed analysis with narrative history to provide a broad overview of computings and telecommunications role in the...
In The third volume of The Digital Hand, James W. Cortada completes his sweeping survey of the effect of computers on American industry, tur...
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396,74 zł |
Information Management: The Organizational Dimension
ISBN: 9780198257608 / Angielski / Twarda / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The purpose of this book is to take an informed, dispassionate and constructive look at the challenges of IT and to offer insight, analysis and guidance on the ever changing IT environment, focusing in particular on managerial and organizational issues. These include centralization versus decentralization; relations between users and specialists; managing the IS function; outsourcing versus internal capabilities; project management and systems application; and an assessment of Business Process Redesign at both the conceptual and empirical level.
The purpose of this book is to take an informed, dispassionate and constructive look at the challenges of IT and to offer insight, analysis and guidan...
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1007,13 zł |
Information Management ' the Strategic Dimension '
ISBN: 9780198285922 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These essays, by leading academics and businesspersons from around the world, describe the current state of the art in information technology, a resource with increasingly important implications for managers and management students. Drawing on case studies from Ford, ICI, Volvo, and the U.K. Inland Revenue, the contributors discuss the place of technology in corporate strategy, its use in gaining competitive advantage, the formulation of information systems strategies, competitive dynamics in the use of value added networks, end-user computing, leadership in information management, and the...
These essays, by leading academics and businesspersons from around the world, describe the current state of the art in information technology, a resou...
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883,56 zł |
Technology Management and Public Policy in the European Union
ISBN: 9780198290285 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Managing technology is increasingly important for firms. This book examines the issues and policy implications in the European context. Drawing on extensive research the focus of the book is on firm-level competences underlying technology management, and the policy instruments which can be used to promote them. The book is published in conjunction with the European Commission, and includes contributions from experts in the field.
Managing technology is increasingly important for firms. This book examines the issues and policy implications in the European context. Drawing on ext...
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184,17 zł |
Knowledge Assets: Securing Competitive Advantage in the Information Economy
ISBN: 9780198290865 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is now widely recognized that the effective management of knowledge assets is a key requirement for securing competitive advantage in the emerging information economy. Yet the physical and institutional differences between tangible assets and knowledge assets remains poorly understood. If we are to meet the challenges of the information economy, then we need a new approach to property rights based on a deeper theoretical understanding of knowledge assets.
This clear, accessible study provides some of the key building blocks needed for a theory of knowledge assets. Boisot develops a... It is now widely recognized that the effective management of knowledge assets is a key requirement for securing competitive advantage in the emerging ...
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797,08 zł |
Managing Intellectual Capital : Organizational, Strategic, and Policy Dimensions
ISBN: 9780198295419 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Managers are keenly aware that in today's economy the astute management of technology can advance not only the fortunes of the innovators, but also of society at large. In this book David Teece considers how firms can exploit technological innovation and protect their intellectual capital while staying ahead of the competition. He provides theoretical frameworks as well as practical advice, looking in particular at the organizational structures most likely to support innovation, and how managerial decisions and strategy affect the division of the gains.
Managers are keenly aware that in today's economy the astute management of technology can advance not only the fortunes of the innovators, but also of...
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273,19 zł |