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.
This book discusses how computers are shaping contemporary society, with a tight focus on the role of corporations and governments. It is aimed at gov...
During the Spanish Civil War, foreign military officers wrote highly elaborate reports of their experiences at the front. One was attache Col. Stephen O. Fuqua of the U.S. Army, who had once held the rank of major general. His presence was highly unusual, for most military observers were less-experienced captains, majors, and lieutenant colonels. Fuqua's reports contained important observations about Spanish armament and troop movements, and he managed to acquire Nationalist propaganda and information despite being situated entirely within Republican military lines. His reporting was...
During the Spanish Civil War, foreign military officers wrote highly elaborate reports of their experiences at the front. One was attache Col. Stephen...
No technology seems to have spread so fast around the world in such a short period of time as computers. It was a phenomenon that predated the arrival of the Internet and that began to change how businesses, governments, and whole societies functioned. The diffusion of information technologies occurred in dozens of countries all over the world with fascinating similarities and differences. In this book, historian James W. Cortada provides the first world-wide history of how computers appeared and were used in North America, all of Europe, and in most of Asia in barely a half century. He...
No technology seems to have spread so fast around the world in such a short period of time as computers. It was a phenomenon that predated the arrival...
This book discusses the evolution of management as a profession over the past two decades and how it continues to evolve. It goes on to describe the new style of management and makes recommendations for what today's and tomorrow's managers must know and how to work.
Offers ways to think about your role as a manager in order to optimize your effectiveness toward uncertain and turbulent changes
Discusses current realities in which management currently operates
Provides a historical background of managerial practices and how they've evolved in the present...
This book discusses the evolution of management as a profession over the past two decades and how it continues to evolve. It goes on to describe th...
This book studies how a technological innovation -- in this case the computer -- progresses from its origin as an idea in someone's mind to its eventual manifestation as a useable and marketable consumer product.
This book studies how a technological innovation -- in this case the computer -- progresses from its origin as an idea in someone's mind to its eventu...
Before the Computer fully explores the data processing industry in the United States from its nineteenth-century inception down to the period when the computer became its primary tool. As James Cortada describes what was once called the "office appliance industry," he challenges our view of the digital computer as a revolutionary technology. Cortada interprets reliance on computers as a development within an important segment of the American economy that was earlier represented largely by such instruments as typewriters, tabulating machines, adding machines, and calculators. He also...
Before the Computer fully explores the data processing industry in the United States from its nineteenth-century inception down to the perio...
All the Facts presents a history of the role of information in the United States since 1870, when the nation began a nearly 150-year period of economic prosperity and technological and scientific transformations. James Cortada argues that citizens and their institutions used information extensively as tools to augment their work and private lives and that they used facts to help shape how the nation evolved during these fourteen decades. He argues that information's role has long been a critical component of the work, play, culture, and values of this nation, and no more so than...
All the Facts presents a history of the role of information in the United States since 1870, when the nation began a nearly 150-year period o...