April 2006
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Sun 30 Apr 2006
Sun 30 Apr 2006
IT-Enabled Strategic Management: Increasing Returns for the Organization
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Book Description
IT-Enabled Strategic Management: Increasing Returns for the Organization includes outstanding contributions from leading intellectuals exploring the crossroads of information technology systems and strategic management. This book presents research on specific market enhancements, information management for decision making, inter-organizational efficiencies, the importance of maintaining crucial relationships, and broader societal and global ramifications. (more…)
Sun 30 Apr 2006
By the year 2020, the basic memory components of a computer will be the size of individual atoms. At such scales, the current theory of computation will become invalid. A new field called “quantum computing” is emerging that is reinventing the foundations of computer science and information theory in a way that is consistent with quantum physics - the most accurate model of reality that is currently known. Remarkably, this new theory predicts that quantum computers can perform certain tasks breathtakingly faster than classical computers, and, better yet, can accomplish mind-boggling feats such as teleporting information, breaking supposedly “unbreakable” codes, generating true random numbers, and communicating with messages that betray the presence of eavesdropping. “Explorations in Quantum Computing” explains these burgeoning (more…)
Sun 30 Apr 2006
Reengineering Yourself and Your Company: From Engineer to Manager to Leader (Artech House Technology Management and Professional Development Library)
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Reengineering Yourself and Your Company From Engineer to Manager to Leader
Howard Eisner | PDF | ~2MB | 306 Pages | ISBN 0-89006-353-2
This book is about three significant and interrelated journeys—one to reengineer yourself, the second to reengineer the enterprise of which you are a part, and the third, if you are so inclined, is the journey from individual contributor to manager to leader. All three journeys have steps that are suggested within them. A step at a time makes each journey possible. It also turns out to be the only practical way to get where we might wish to go. (more…)