A whole new way to look at your world: New England, Florida, California, and the Pacific Northwest are the first four subjects in a series of comprehensive field guides to the flora, fauna, landscape, and climate of specific geographic regions of North America. Up-to-date, concise, accurate species accounts; sensible, user-friendly organization; ...
This work focuses on teaching IT leaders how to implement hyper-efficient business processes in the e-commerce market, and the second book in the ComputerWorld Books for the IT Leaders series. Companies are jumping onto the e-commerce bandwagon, but are struggling to remain profitable. Competitors are attacking, customers are gaining power and ...
This book aims to provide managers with comprehensive and practical advice on their role in managing information technology as a business resource. Business change and technical change fuel each other, and the challenge for management is to get ahead of the curve, not just react to it. Managers must take the lead in setting the competitive ...
"The Process Edge" proves that business process improvement is not a fad. It addresses the recent backlash against process movements like reengineering by explaining why businesses can decline even as process reform is creating dramatic new efficiencies and savings. Companies that experience this paradox are investing in the wrong processes. The ...
This text offers advice for managing businesses in this era of wireless tools, technologies, and applications. It provides a practical roadmap for realizing the rewards that wireless technology offers, and explains the current reality of wireless commerce.
Over 200 high-tech multimedia terms are explained for non-technical managers. Written in easy-to-understand language for general readers, an introduction discusses how multimedia has changed the face of business communcation and the jargon of cyberspace is demystified.
This work provides an introduction to information technology, with an emphasis on "hot" technology and how to use information technology for career advantage. It is intended to be of use on introductory courses in business information systems, information technology or business-oriented computing.
Today's managers must be just as comfortable with the basics of information technology (IT) as they are with accounting techniques and marketing principles. This guide demystifies the IT revolution, defining in accessible language the terms and concepts that are directly relevant to managers and explaining the impact of IT on all aspects of ...
A comprehensive guide which focuses on Internet and intranet issues as they relate to managers. The book is organized A-to-Z for easy access to key phrases, buzzwords, brand names and trade terms.
This text aims to help managers understand what they need in order to manage technologies and processes, and to implement their business strategies for digital commerce. It focuses on logistics and security issues, not on business strategy.
This edition provides a summary of the terms and concepts of information technology that are directly relevant to managers. It features many new terms, and captures the competitive as well as the technical changes in the field.
It couldn't last forever...and it didn't. Finally, scores of e-businesses that once enjoyed astronomical capitalisation in spite of their vague business plans, modest sales, and absence of profits have been called on the carpet. The experimental first era of e-business is over and now it's time for the next, when companies will deliver customer ...
This updated new edition provides a summary of the terms and concepts of information technology that are directly relevant to managers. In addition to the 100 definitions supplied, this edition also features 40 new terms.
A Volume in the "Wadsworth Management Information Systems" Series. Telecommunications are the core business drivers of a company in every industry, telecommunications is now a major element in the very basics of business, to the degree that 25-80% of the firm's cash flow is on line. We are living in a symbolic economy, where the swift system ...
Over 200 high-tech multimedia terms are explained for the non-technical manager. Written in easy-to-underatand language for general readers, an introduction discusses how multimedia has changed the face of business communication and the jargon of cyberspace is demystified.
Decision Enhancement (DE) is a field of practice aimed at extending lessons, principles and tools built up over a thirty year period, largely under the term 'Decision Support'. Enhancement goes beyond support which has mostly focused on helping managers make use of interactive computer models and methods. DE substantially adds to the opportunities ...
This text aims to help managers understand what they need in order to manage technologies and processes, and to implement their business strategies for digital commerce. It focuses on logistics and security issues, not on business strategy.
Capital for Our Time compellingly describes the opportunities and risks associated with intellectual capital, from broad economic questions to specific business strategies. It includes essays by cutting-edge managers and CEOs, as well as representatives of the venture capital, government, and trade communities.
This guide helps readers who drink mediocre bagged teas learn about the wide range of better, cheaper, great whole leaf teas and how to buy them. Witty, conversational, and well-researched, the text is devoid of the snobbery that surrounds most discussions of tea.
This is a guide from e-strategists on how to make profit in the new world economy. The authors say we are in the midst of the first era of e-business, characterized by experimentation, vague or non-existent business models, and dubious value propositions. This era is driven by technology. The next era of e-business will be characterized by a focus ...
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
Date Published: 31/03/1998
ISBN-13:9780875848402ISBN:0875848400
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Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution
