How Societies Embrace Information Technology : Lessons for Management and the Rest of Us
James W. Cortada
Bok Engelsk 2010 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Hoboken : : Wiley, , 2010.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (289 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - How Societies Embrace Information Technology; CONTENTS; Preface; 1 Introducing the Big Picture; The presence of information technology; Megatrends at work; How societies use technology to shape their world; Notes and references; 2 How Computers Spread Around the World So Fast; Definitions and issues; Government-supported/private-sector-driven model; National champion model; Asian private-sector-driven model; Planned economy: public policy model; Industry-driven model; Corporate diffusion model; Application diffusion model; Technology-standards diffusion model. - Can we coexist on the frontiers of a new age?Lessons for management and a strategy for change; Concluding thoughts; Notes and references; 6 An Expanding Role for Scientists and Engineers; The rise of the computer scientist; Their role in modern society; When scientists and tech folk take things into their own hands; When technologists go green; Their future world; An old role made new; Notes and references; 7 Looking Down the Road into the Twenty-First Century; How to see the future of an industry; Knowing how information technology is evolving; A strategy for managers and public officials. - Implications for business leadersThe way forward with policies and practices; Notes and references; 4 How Managers and Officials Decide What Technology to Use; The kinds of decisions made by managers; Types of justification; Managerial practices; Some possible less effective practices; Special role of industries; Path forward; Notes and references; 5 Adding Up the Results So Far: Do We Now Live in the Information Age?; Why naming an age is a useful exercise and so hard to do; What historians can teach us about the process; The case against the information age. - Patterns, practices, and implicationsNotes and references; 3 How Governments Leverage Information Technologies to Improve Their National Economies; A brief historical reminder; Economic development in a connected world: the big picture; How governments use it to encourage economic development; What motivates governments to encourage their citizens and economies to use it?; Emerging strategies for the most advanced nations compared to rapidly advancing nations; The special role of labor; Global recession, twenty-first century style; Implications for public officials. - Special role of the computer science communityThe ultimate trend; Notes and references; 8 Keeping Up: Bibliographic Essay; The big picture; How computers spread around the world; Governments leveraging it for economic development; Deciding what technology to use; Living in the information age; Role of technologists; Into the twenty-first century; Index. - This book discusses how computers are shaping contemporary society, with a tight focus on the role of corporations and governments. It is aimed at government policymakers interested in economic development and at private-sector managers who routinely make decisions to acquire and use information technology, now a worldwide expenditure of over 2 trillion annually. The book will also interest a wide range of academics concerned with the sociology, history, economics, and the effects of IT on contemporary society, ands to the general trade market.
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| ISBN | 9780470534984
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