Your cart is empty.
  • Home

    How societies embrace information technology : lessons for management and the rest of us / James W. Cortada.

    By: Cortada, James WContributor(s): IEEE Computer Society | Wiley InterScience (Online service)Material type: TextTextPublisher: Hoboken, N.J. : Los Alamitos, CA : John Wiley & Sons ; IEEE Computer Society, ©2009Description: (xiii, 273 pages) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780470643938; 0470643935; 1282491903; 9781282491908Subject(s): Information society | Internet -- Social aspects | Information technology -- Social aspects | COMPUTERS -- Information Technology | Information society | Information technology -- Social aspects | Internet -- Social aspectsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: How societies embrace information technology.DDC classification: 303.4833 LOC classification: HM851 | .C675 2009
    Contents:
    How Societies Embrace Information Technology; CONTENTS; Preface; 1 Introducing the Big Picture; 2 How Computers Spread Around the World So Fast; 3 How Governments Leverage Information Technologies to Improve Their National Economies; 4 How Managers and Officials Decide What Technology to Use; 5 Adding Up the Results So Far: Do We Now Live in the Information Age?; 6 An Expanding Role for Scientists and Engineers; 7 Looking Down the Road into the Twenty-First Century; 8 Keeping Up: Bibliographic Essay; Index.
    Summary: 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.
    Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
        Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
    Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Notes Date due Barcode
    Books Books Female Library
    		HM851 .C675 2009 (Browse shelf (Opens below)) 1 Available STACKS 51952000318545
    Books Books Main Library
    		HM851 .C675 2009 (Browse shelf (Opens below)) 1 Available STACKS 51952000207597

    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    Print version record.

    How Societies Embrace Information Technology; CONTENTS; Preface; 1 Introducing the Big Picture; 2 How Computers Spread Around the World So Fast; 3 How Governments Leverage Information Technologies to Improve Their National Economies; 4 How Managers and Officials Decide What Technology to Use; 5 Adding Up the Results So Far: Do We Now Live in the Information Age?; 6 An Expanding Role for Scientists and Engineers; 7 Looking Down the Road into the Twenty-First Century; 8 Keeping Up: Bibliographic Essay; 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. 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

    1 2

    There are no comments on this title.

    to post a comment.