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Welcome to the wired world : the new networked economy / Anne Leer.
Lippincott Library HC79.I55 L442 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leer, Anne C.
- Series:
- ft.com.
- ft.com
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Information technology--Management.
- Information technology.
- Information society.
- Information superhighway.
- Information technology--Economic aspects.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 221 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Harlow : Pearson Education, 2000.
- Summary:
- Welcome to the Wired World examines the strategic issues executives need to know to take their business forward in the digital age. It also provides a synthesis of and commentary on the key reports, surveys, compliance and regulatory issues that are shaping commerce in the wired world.
- Contents:
- 1 Visions of the Wired World
- The shrinking planet 1
- Imagining the future 3
- Market drivers and key agents of change 6
- Hype versus reality - guru talk and those great ideas 7
- 2 The Global Information Infrastructure
- Emerging global systems 11
- The rise of the Global Information Infrastructure (GII) 17
- 3 Technology
- The development of media and communications technologies - from Gutenberg to Gates 27
- Innovation and the rate of change 32
- Managing technological investments 36
- 4 The market
- The search for a market and the challenge of sizing it 39
- The meaning of convergence 45
- The new evolving market structure 47
- Redefining the market 48
- 5 Content
- What content, which customer? 51
- The trouble with information assets 53
- The intellectual property system 56
- Copyright 58
- 6 Electronic commerce
- Defining electronic commerce 74
- Trends in, and the value of, e-markets 75
- Information transactions - tangible versus intangible assets 76
- The challenge of security 78
- Cryptography and the role of encryption technology 79
- Transactional systems for network commerce 83
- Possible future developments 93
- 7 The networked economy
- Towards the Knowledge Age 96
- Human capital and knowledge management 97
- Barriers to be resolved 102
- Conditions for market efficiency and potential risk 105
- Projections of future developments 107
- 8 Wired organizations
- Challenges and strategic responses of key players 109
- Publishers in a mixed media environment 112
- Digital television 123
- Transforming advertising 126
- Value creation and changing business models 129
- 9 Public services
- Reinventing government 139
- Lifelong learning and the rapid transformation of the education sector 141
- Global overview of ICT initiatives in education 145
- The call for public- and private-sector partnerships 150
- 10 People
- The individual citizen and the Wired World 155
- The opportunities and impact of teleworking 159
- Net addiction and other cyberspace side-effects 164
- The digital divide 166
- The Global Information Society versus information city states 168
- 1 Chapter 1 of the Bangemann Report Europe and the global information society: Recommendations to the European Council, 26 May 1994 170
- 2 Speech of US Vice President AI Gore at the International Telecommunication Union's first World Telecommunications Development Conference, Buenos Aires, March 1994 180
- 3 Speech of US Vice President Al Gore, 15th International ITU Conference, 12 October 1998 192.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0273635603
- OCLC:
- 43515928
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