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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: James W. CortadaPublisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.422kg ISBN: 9780470534984ISBN 10: 0470534982 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 20 November 2009 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsPreface ix 1 Introducing the Big Picture 1 The presence of information technology 2 Megatrends at work 7 How societies use technology to shape their world 19 Notes and references 24 2 How Computers Spread Around the World So Fast 27 Definitions and issues 29 Government-supported/private-sector-driven model 33 National champion model 37 Asian private-sector-driven model 39 Planned economy: public policy model 42 Industry-driven model 48 Corporate diffusion model 51 Application diffusion model 57 Technology-standards diffusion model 59 Patterns, practices, and implications 61 Notes and references 65 3 How Governments Leverage Information Technologies to Improve Their National Economies 71 A brief historical reminder 72 Economic development in a connected world: the big picture 75 How governments use it to encourage economic development 77 What motivates governments to encourage their citizens and economies to use it? 91 Emerging strategies for the most advanced nations compared to rapidly advancing nations 96 The special role of labor 100 Global recession, twenty-first century style 102 Implications for public officials 106 Implications for business leaders 112 The way forward with policies and practices 116 Notes and references 122 4 How Managers and Officials Decide What Technology to Use 129 The kinds of decisions made by managers 131 Types of justification 135 Managerial practices 138 Some possible less effective practices 143 Special role of industries 149 Path forward 151 Notes and references 157 5 Adding Up the Results So Far: Do We Now Live in the Information Age? 163 Why naming an age is a useful exercise and so hard to do 165 What historians can teach us about the process 167 The case against the information age 173 Can we coexist on the frontiers of a new age? 175 Lessons for management and a strategy for change 179 Concluding thoughts 185 Notes and references 186 6 An Expanding Role for Scientists and Engineers 191 The rise of the computer scientist 192 Their role in modern society 197 When scientists and tech folk take things into their own hands 201 When technologists go green 204 Their future world 212 An old role made new 218 Notes and references 220 7 Looking Down the Road into the Twenty-First Century 223 How to see the future of an industry 225 Knowing how information technology is evolving 233 A strategy for managers and public officials 240 Special role of the computer science community 247 The ultimate trend 252 Notes and references 254 8 Keeping Up: Bibliographic Essay 257 The big picture 257 How computers spread around the world 259 Governments leveraging it for economic development 260 Deciding what technology to use 261 Living in the information age 263 Role of technologists 264 Into the twenty-first century 265 Index 267ReviewsThe book also presents ideas for educators. For instance, to encourage IT people to be naturally proactive, courses should leverage the creation and production of IT projects with solving society's problems. With some effort, this can be done in computers and society courses, at both the general and professional education level. At the professional level, IT workers with such experience and training will more likely choose to work on problem areas. At the general level, people with such experience will act politically, to vocalize the expectation that the IT industry will create products that help society. (Computing Reviews, September 2010) Author InformationJames W. Cortada has thirty-five years of experience with IBM in various sales, consulting, and managerial positions related to information technology and its use. In particular, he helped design and deploy processes related to employee skills development, including IBM's worldwide consultant skills certification process, sales processes, and specialized training seminars. An author of more than fifty books on the management and history of information technology, Cortada's work has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, and Korean. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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