Information and the modern corporation / James W. Cortada.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cortada, James W.

Series:

MIT Press essential knowledge series.

The MIT Press essential knowledge series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge management.

Corporations.

Information resources management.

Information technology--Management.

Information technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (174 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

While we have been preoccupied with the latest i-gadget from Apple and with Google's ongoing expansion, we may have missed something: the fundamental transformation of whole firms and industries into giant information-processing machines. Today, more than eighty percent of workers collect and analyze information (often in digital form) in the course of doing their jobs. This book offers a guide to the role of information in modern business, mapping the use of information within work processes and tracing flows of information across supply-chain management, product development, customer relations, and sales. The emphasis is on information itself, not on information technology. Information, overshadowed for a while by the glamour and novelty of IT, is the fundamental component of the modern corporation. In Information and the Modern Corporation, longtime IBM manager and consultant James Cortada clarifies the differences among data, facts, information, and knowledge and describes how the art of analytics has all but eliminated decision making based on gut feeling, replacing it with fact-based decisions. He describes the working style of "road warriors," whose offices are anywhere their laptops and cell phones are and whose deep knowledge of a given topic becomes their medium of exchange. Information is the core of the modern enterprise, and the use of information defines the activities of a firm. This essential guide shows managers and employees better ways to leverage information--by design and not by accident.

Contents:

Working the digital way

Knowledge management-more corporate glue

The informed supply chain

New products and marketing in a digitized world

Digital plumbing in the modern organization

Structure of the modern organization

The road ahead-the future of information.

Notes:

Includes index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9786613302861

9780262297943

0262297949

9781283302869

1283302861

9780262298827

0262298821

OCLC:

759037120

Publisher Number:

9786613302861