Kategoria BISAC: Computers >> Information Technology

""The Relentless Pursuit of Information Technology Excellence" is nothing less than a call to manage the IT function as a business. If you are a CIO or IT manager trying to rebuild trust with other areas of the organization, this book is for you. It might even save your job."
--Rob Austin, Associate Professor, Harvard Business School, and co-author of "Artful Making"

"IT communities in all developing countries must read "The Relentless Pursuit of Information Technology Excellence" because it offers important management lessons and uncovers opportunities for outsourcing...

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""The Relentless Pursuit of Information Technology Excellence" is nothing less than a call to manage the IT function as a business. If you are a CIO or IT manager trying to rebuild trust with other areas of the organization, this book is for you. It might even save your job."
--Rob Austin, Associate Professor, Harvard Business School, and co-author of "Artful Making"

"IT communities in all developing countries must read "The Relentless Pursuit of Information Technology Excellence" because it offers important management lessons and uncovers opportunities for outsourcing...

Ten years ago, groupware bundled with email and calendar applications helped track the flow of work from person to person within an organization. Workflow in today's enterprise means more monitoring and orchestrating massive systems. A new technology called Business Process Management, or BPM, helps software architects and developers design, code, run, administer, and monitor complex network-based business processes

BPM replaces those sketchy flowchart diagrams that business analysts draw on whiteboards with a precise model that uses standard graphical and XML representations, and...

• Introduces students to concepts of the self and society in an age of rapid technology and high speed communication
• Examines the relationship between everyday life and social structure in key domains of communication, personality, work/family, leisure and entertainment, and economics
• Written in a...

• Examines unequal access to information technology in the United States.
  
• Analyses the success or failure of policies designed to address the digital divide.
  
• Draws on extensive fieldwork in several US cities.
  
• Makes recommendations for future public policy.
  
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• Examines unequal access to information technology in the United States.
  
• Analyses the success or failure of policies designed to address the digital divide.
  
• Draws on extensive fieldwork in several US cities.
  
• Makes recommendations for future public policy.
  
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• Opens up a new line of inquiry into the social effects of the Internet.


• Focuses on how the Internet fits into everyday lives, rather than considering it as an alternate world.


• Chapters are contributed by leading researchers in the area.


• Studies are based on empirical data.


• Talks about the reality of being online now, not hopes or...

• Opens up a new line of inquiry into the social effects of the Internet.


• Focuses on how the Internet fits into everyday lives, rather than considering it as an alternate world.


• Chapters are contributed by leading researchers in the area.


• Studies are based on empirical data.


• Talks about the reality of being online now, not hopes or...

Computer-centered networks and technologies are reshaping social relations and constituting new social domains on a global scale, from virtually borderless electronic markets and Internet-based large-scale conversations to worldwide open source software development communities, transnational corporate production systems, and the global knowledge-arenas associated with NGO networks. This book explores how such "digital formations" emerge from the ever-changing intersection of computer-centered technologies and the broad range of social contexts that underlie much of what happens in...