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Information Ecology
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Author : Thomas H. Davenport
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1997-06-26
Information Ecology written by Thomas H. Davenport and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-06-26 with Business & Economics categories.
According to virtually every business writer, we are in the midst of a new "information age," one that will revolutionize how workers work, how companies compete, perhaps even how thinkers think. And it is certainly true that Information Technology has become a giant industry. In America, more that 50% of all capital spending goes into IT, accounting for more than a third of the growth of the entire American economy in the last four years. Over the last decade, IT spending in the U.S. is estimated at 3 trillion dollars. And yet, by almost all accounts, IT hasn't worked all that well. Why is it that so many of the companies that have invested in these costly new technologies never saw the returns they had hoped for? And why do workers, even CEOs, find it so hard to adjust to new IT systems? In Information Ecology, Thomas Davenport proposes a revolutionary new way to look at information management, one that takes into account the total information environment within an organization. Arguing that the information that comes from computer systems may be considerably less valuable to managers than information that flows in from a variety of other sources, the author describes an approach that encompasses the company's entire information environment, the management of which he calls information ecology. Only when organizations are able to combine and integrate these diverse sources of information, and to take them to a higher level where information becomes knowledge, will they realize the full power of their information ecology. Thus, the author puts people, not technology, at the center of the information world. Information and knowledge are human creations, he points out, and we will never excel at managing them until we give people a primary role. Citing examples drawn from his own extensive research and consulting including such major firms as A.T. & T., American Express, Ford, General Electric, Hallmark, Hoffman La Roche, IBM, Polaroid, Pacific Bell, and Toshiba Davenport illuminates the critical components of information ecology, and at every step along the way, he provides a quick assessment survey for managers to see how their organization measures up. He discusses the importance of developing an overall strategy for information use; explores the infighting, jealousy over resources, and political battles that can frustrate information sharing; underscores the importance of looking at how people really use information (how they search for it, modify it, share it, hoard it, and even ignore it) and the kinds of information they want; describes the ideal information staff, who not only store and retrive information, but also prune, provide context, enhance style, and choose the right presentation medium (in an age of work overload, vital information must be presented compellingly so the appropriate people recognize and use it); examines how information management should be done on a day to day basis; and presents several alternatives to the machine engineering approach to structuring and modeling information. Davenport makes explicit what many managers already know in their gut: that useful information flow depends on people, not equipment. In Information Ecology he paves the way for all managers to build a more competitive, creative, practical information environment for their companies.
Information Ecology
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Author : Thomas H. Davenport
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
Information Ecology written by Thomas H. Davenport and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Business categories.
Information technology spending in the US over the last decade is estimated at 3 trillion dollars, yet, by many accounts, has not worked. In this text, the author proposes a way of looking at information management which takes into account the total information environment within an organization.
Information Ecologies
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Author : Bonnie A. Nardi
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2000-02-28
Information Ecologies written by Bonnie A. Nardi and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-02-28 with Technology & Engineering categories.
A call for informed, responsible engagement with information technology at the local level. The common rhetoric about technology falls into two extreme categories: uncritical acceptance or blanket rejection. Claiming a middle ground, Bonnie Nardi and Vicki O'Day call for responsible, informed engagement with technology in local settings, which they call information ecologies. An information ecology is a system of people, practices, technologies, and values in a local environment. Nardi and O'Day encourage the reader to become more aware of the ways people and technology are interrelated. They draw on their empirical research in offices, libraries, schools, and hospitals to show how people can engage their own values and commitments while using technology.
Information Ecologies
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Author : Bonnie A. Nardi
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2000-02-28
Information Ecologies written by Bonnie A. Nardi and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-02-28 with Technology & Engineering categories.
A call for informed, responsible engagement with information technology at the local level. The common rhetoric about technology falls into two extreme categories: uncritical acceptance or blanket rejection. Claiming a middle ground, Bonnie Nardi and Vicki O'Day call for responsible, informed engagement with technology in local settings, which they call information ecologies. An information ecology is a system of people, practices, technologies, and values in a local environment. Nardi and O'Day encourage the reader to become more aware of the ways people and technology are interrelated. They draw on their empirical research in offices, libraries, schools, and hospitals to show how people can engage their own values and commitments while using technology.
Information Habitat Where Information Lives Information Ecology And One Light In All
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Information Habitat Where Information Lives Information Ecology And One Light In All written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with categories.
The Information Ecology Of E Government
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Author : V. J. J. M. Bekkers
language : en
Publisher: IOS Press
Release Date : 2005
The Information Ecology Of E Government written by V. J. J. M. Bekkers and has been published by IOS Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Business & Economics categories.
It seems that only a short time ago, numerous academics and practitioners in the field were somewhat blinded by the successes of the dot-com developments in the private sector, and some of them enthusiastically claimed that public administration was to be revolutionized. But that did not happen, and also the dot-com soap bubble burst. This suggests that there is much yet to be learned about innovation in public administration, especially about innovations at the cornerstones of technological and institutional transformations. New and more fully developed formulations of theory into practice are needed. The goal of the editors of this book is to contribute to some aspects of the understanding of e-government. In order to understand electronic government, one has to scrutinize the various environments and contexts in which e-government is developed and implemented. As such, it builds upon the biological and environmental lines of reasoning that have been suggested by authors like Bonnie Nardi and Vicky O'Day, and Thomas Davenport and Laurence Prusak.
Information Environmentalism
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Author : Robert Cunningham
language : en
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Release Date : 2014-09-26
Information Environmentalism written by Robert Cunningham and has been published by Edward Elgar Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-26 with Business & Economics categories.
øInformation Environmentalism applies four environmental analytical frameworks _ ecology, Šthe commons�, public choice theory, and welfare economics _ to the information environment. The book neatly captures the metaphorical relationship between the ph
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language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
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Landscape Ecology And Wildlife Habitat Evaluation
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Author : Lawrence Kapustka
language : en
Publisher: ASTM International
Release Date : 2004
Landscape Ecology And Wildlife Habitat Evaluation written by Lawrence Kapustka and has been published by ASTM International this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Business & Economics categories.
Trillions
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Author : Peter Lucas
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2012-08-29
Trillions written by Peter Lucas and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-29 with Business & Economics categories.
We are facing a future of unbounded complexity. Whether that complexity is harnessed to build a world that is safe, pleasant, humane and profitable, or whether it causes us to careen off a cliff into an abyss of mind-numbing junk is an open question. The challenges and opportunities--technical, business, and human--that this technological sea change will bring are without precedent. Entire industries will be born and others will be laid to ruin as our society navigates this journey. There are already many more computing devices in the world than there are people. In a few more years, their number will climb into the trillions. We put microprocessors into nearly every significant thing that we manufacture, and the cost of routine computing and storage is rapidly becoming negligible. We have literally permeated our world with computation. But more significant than mere numbers is the fact we are quickly figuring out how to make those processors communicate with each other, and with us. We are about to be faced, not with a trillion isolated devices, but with a trillion-node network: a network whose scale and complexity will dwarf that of today’s Internet. And, unlike the Internet, this will be a network not of computation that we use, but of computation that we live in. Written by the leaders of one of America’s leading pervasive computing design firms, this book gives a no-holds-barred insiders’ account of both the promise and the risks of the age of Trillions. It is also a cautionary tale of the head-in-the-sand attitude with which many of today’s thought-leaders are at present approaching these issues. Trillions is a field guide to the future--designed to help businesses and their customers prepare to prosper, in the information.