Cortada The Essential Manager

How to Thrive in the Global Information Jungle
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-119-00493-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 262 Seiten, E-Book

This book discusses the evolution of management as a professionover the past two decades and how it continues to evolve. It goeson to describe the new style of management and makesrecommendations for what today's and tomorrow'smanagers must know and how to work.

* Offers ways to think about your role as a manager in order tooptimize your effectiveness toward uncertain and turbulentchanges

* Discusses current realities in which management currentlyoperates

* Provides a historical background of managerial practices andhow they've evolved in the present workplace

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cortada, James W.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vii
1. Emergence of a New Managerial Style 1
2. When Management Confronts Information Ecosystems 40
3. How Technologies Affect the Work of Industries 85
4. New Organizations: What Changes, What Does Not 124
5. Emerging Economic and Business Realities 167
6. The Way Forward 200
For Further Reading 231
Index 236

Über Autor(innen)

James W. Cortada, Senior Research Fellow at the Charles Babbage Institute in the College of Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota, USA, has worked at IBM in various sales, consulting, management and executive positions from 1974 through 2012 across a dozen industries and with clients around the world. He is a member of the board of director of the IT History Society, made up of senior leaders in the IT industry. He is also a member of the editorial board of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Information and Culture, and Library and Information History.