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21st Century Business Managing and Working in the New Digital Economy

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ISBN-10: 0130305693

ISBN-13: 9780130305695

Edition: 2001

Authors: James W. Cortada

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In a time of unremitting, accelerating technological change, James W. Cortada offers a calm, intelligent path through the wilderness, helping managers understand the big picture and successfully manage the transition to the Internet economy. Cortada shows how to get past the glitter and hype associated with innovation, and leverage the best of the new technologies, without abandoning management fundamentals that are more important today than ever. Cortada demonstrates how to manage and work as your firm transforms itself from an Industrial Age enterprise to an eBusiness -- describing exactly what is changing, how to live in both worlds, and where your future sources of profit and personal…    
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Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 8/14/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Preface
Introduction: What is the Information Age?
A New World Born: it is More Than Just Technology
Foremost an Age of Information Economics
The Search For a New Value Proposition
Globalization and Digitalization
Political Realities
Implications and Actions
Endnotes
Waves of Learning, Waves of Best Practices
Rise of the Competency-Based Enterprise
How Knowledge Management is Transforming Commerce
Business in a Process-Centric World
Understanding How Waves of Change Work
Implications and Actions
Endnotes
Who are These Knowledge Workers?
Introducing Familiar Roles and New Functions
Where They Came From
How are Knowledge Workers Leveraged Today?
Knowledge Management, Value Chains, and K-Strategies
How Knowledge Management and E-Business Work Together
Implications and Actions
Endnotes
Changing Work: Role of the Internet
The Issue of the Net
What Makes the Internet Different
Issues, Assumptions, and Questions
A Sober View of the Future
Implications for Success
Endnotes
Digitizing Supply and Value Chains
The Value of Viewing Everything as a Supply Chain
The Emerging New Value Chains
Special Role of Communications and Computers
Some Realities
Endnotes
Choosing a Future for Your Company
The Future of the Business Enterprise
Making Trends Work for the Firm
Nature of Management Practices
Cyber Manager or Knowledgeable Leader?
Nature of Measured Success
An Issue of Leadership and Management
Endnotes
On Keeping Current: A Strategy and Some Useful Reading
Some Great Reading
Index