How Societies Embrace Information Technology: Lessons for Management and the Rest of Us by Cortada, James W.

How Societies Embrace Information Technology: Lessons for Management and the Rest of Us (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780470534984)

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How Societies Embrace Information Technology: Lessons for Management and the Rest of Us by Cortada, James W.

How Societies Embrace Information Technology: Lessons for Management and the Rest of Us

$42.95
How Societies Embrace Information Technology: Lessons for Management and the Rest of Us by Cortada, James W.

How Societies Embrace Information Technology: Lessons for Management and the Rest of Us

$42.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: James W. Cortada
ISBN-10: 0470534982
ISBN-13: 9780470534984
Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Computer Society PR
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2009
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d

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By James W. Cortada
By James W. Cortada
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James 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.

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