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Institute of Technology
Information and the modern corporation /
This book explores the transformation of firms and industries into giant information-processing machines. In the 2010s, 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 i...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
[2011]
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| Series: | MIT Press essential knowledge series.
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Full text (Wentworth users only) |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | This book explores the transformation of firms and industries into giant information-processing machines. In the 2010s, 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 this book, the author, a longtime IBM manager and consultant, 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. The author 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 guide shows managers and employees better ways to leverage information |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 159 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0262298821 9780262298827 9780262299695 0262299690 1283302861 9781283302869 0262297949 9780262297943 9786613302861 6613302864 |
| Language: | English. |