Tactical NAV : innovation in the US Army / Dennis A. Adams, Blake Ives, Iris Junglas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adams, Dennis A., 1958- author.

Ives, Blake, author.

Junglas, Iris, author.

Series:

SAGE Knowledge. Cases.

SAGE Knowledge. Cases

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Army.

Application software--Development--Case studies.

Application software.

iPhone (Smartphone)--Mobile apps--Case studies.

iPhone (Smartphone).

Technological innovations--Case studies.

Technological innovations.

iPhone (Smartphone)--Mobile apps.

Application software--Development.

United States. Army--Case studies.

United States.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave MacMillan UK, 2013.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Increasingly, employees are innovating with their own consumer technologies (such as smartphones and tablets), rather than looking to their companies' IT departments to lead technical innovation. This can give rise to tension between employees and IT departments, and this tension is particularly pronounced in the US military, where long systems development times run headlong into young, technology-savvy soldiers arriving in camp with smartphones, sophisticated applications, and high expectations. In this case study, this phenomenon plays out in the person of a US Army Captain who, using resources obtained via the Internet and while on a tour of duty in Afghanistan, develops and sells an inexpensive iPhone application - Tactical NAV - that provides soldiers with a sophisticated navigation tool.

Notes:

Originally Published InAdams, D. A., Ives, B. & Junglas, I. (2013). Tactical NAV: Innovation in the US Army. Journal of Information Technology Teaching Cases, 3, 1-8.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781526478399

OCLC:

1089146459

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