The Digital Hand: How Computers Changed the Work of American Manufacturing, Transportation, and Retail Industries

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-19-516588-3
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 512 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 866 g

Key Features:- This book describes how computers were used in 16 American industries over the past half century to determine what were the critical uses, how technologies came into these industries, and how they were changed by it.
- It is an important business history book because of its scope and because it deals with a central issue faced by all managers, the use of IT, which now accounts for anywhere from 2 to 15% of a company's budget
- It provides detailed examples of how industries influenced the behavior of firms and managers
- It provides detailed accounts of the rate and extent of deployment of computing, providing many surprises about who is really "high-tech" and who is not.
Description:

This book provides a historical perspective, rooted in historical research, on how some of the most important American industries used computing over the past half century, describing their experience, their best practices, and the role of industries and technologies in changing the nature of American work. It is the first major study of business uses of computers to rely on historical experience to describe current realities. It looks at 16 specific industries, identifying patterns of behavior and reality which continue to affect how management deploys IT today, taking the story from the birth of the computer through the first decade of experience with the Internet. It identifies patterns of adoption and effects that are of interest to historians, economists, and business managers.

Zielgruppe

Professionals and academics interested in business history, as well as graduate and undergraduate students in business and economic history classes, management classes in MBA programs, and history of computing courses.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cortada, James W.

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Business Application Unternehmenssoftware SAP
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Wirtschaftsinformatik, SAP, IT-Management
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Computeranwendungen in der Technik
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein Soziale und ethische Aspekte der EDV
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Professionelle Anwendung Computer-Aided Design (CAD)
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Angewandte Informatik Computeranwendungen in Wissenschaft & Technologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Fertigungsindustrie Sonstige Fertigungsindustrien