Manage all the changes driving your business in the 21st century! In a time of unremitting, accelerating technological change,
James W. Cortada offers a calm, intelligent path through the wilderness, helping managers understand the big picture and successfully manage the transition to the Internet economy. Cortada shows how to get past the hype associated with innovation, and leverage the best of the new technologies — without abandoning management fundamentals that are more important today than ever
Management How the fundamentals of management will — and won't — apply in the 21st century Knowledge Master today's best practices for creating a learning organization Internet Leverage the Internet to build smarter, more efficient supply and value chains Work Understand how the new economy transforms work — and workers Strategy Choose a new future for your company — high-level approaches and step-by-step tasks
21st Century Business demonstrates how to manage and work as your firm transforms itself from an Industrial Age enterprise to a 21ST CENTURY BUSINESS, presenting street-wise strategies, guidelines, examples, and tips every manager can start using today. It's a masterful guide to what is changing, how to live in both worlds, and where your future sources of profit and personal success will come from
The 21st Century Business: Managing and Working in the New Digital Economy| James W. Cortada (Author)| Pearson FT Press
Table of Contents
Introduction: What Is the Information Age?
Chapter 1. A New World Born: It Is More Than Just Technology
Foremost an Age of Information Economics, The Search for a New Value Proposition, Globalization and Digitalization, Political Realities, Implications and Actions, Endnotes.
Chapter 2. Waves of Learning, Waves of Best Practices
Rise of the Competency-Based Enterprise, How Knowledge Management Is Transforming Commerce, Business in a Process-centric World, Understanding How Waves of Change Work, Implications and Actions, Endnotes.
Chapter 3. Who are these Knowledge Workers?
Introducing Familiar Roles and New Functions, Where They Came From, “How Are Knowledge Workers Leveraged Today?”, Knowledge Management, Value Chains, and K-Strategies, How Knowledge Management and e-Business Work Together, Implications and Actions, Endnotes.
Chapter 4. Changing Work: Role of the Internet
The Issue of the Net, What Makes the Internet Different, Issues, Assumptions, and Questions, A Sober View of the Future, Implications for Success, Endnotes.
Chapter 5. Digitizing Supply and Value Chains
The Value of Viewing Everything as a Supply Chain, In the area of cost savings:, In the area of customer service:, In the area of business growth:, The Emerging New Value Chains, Special Role of Communications and Computers, Some Realities, Endnotes.
Chapter 6. Choosing a Future for Your Company
The Future of the Business Enterprise, Making Trends Work for the Firm, Nature of Management Practices, “Cyber Manager or Knowledgeable Leader?”, Nature of Measured Success, An Issue of Leadership and Management, Endnotes.
On Keeping Current: A Strategy and Some Useful Reading
Some Great Reading
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