Posted by admin on 02 Oct 2009 at 10:55 am under Business
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Peter Drucker’s classic book on innovation and entrepreneurship
This is the first book to present innovation and entrepreneurship as a purposeful and systematic discipline that explains and analyzes the challenges and opportunities of America’s new entrepreneurial economy. Superbly practical, Innovation and Entrepreneurship explains what established businesses, public service [...]
Posted by admin on 15 Jul 2009 at 9:12 pm under Business
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Named one of the “Best Books on Innovation, 2008″ by BusinessWeek magazine
Does innovation come about by luck or hard work? Is it a flash of inspiration or the result of careful management? Are innovators born or taught? In Closing the Innovation Gap, Judith Estrin provides the answers to these and other questions critical [...]
Posted by admin on 15 Jul 2009 at 8:32 pm under Business
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This book deals with the management of information technology (IT) as it is being practiced in organizations today. It captures the material of current importance to information systems executives and organizes it around a framework that provides guidance to readers. In Information Systems Management in Practice, 5/E, a key element continues [...]
Posted by admin on 21 Jun 2009 at 1:17 am under Business
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From Publishers Weekly
The great corporate research departments at companies like Bell Labs, IBM and Xerox were once the motor of American industry. But that may be changing, according to this probing academic study of corporate technological innovation. Chesbrough, an assistant professor at the Harvard Business [...]
Posted by admin on 18 Jun 2009 at 10:44 pm under Business
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“…should be required reading for all present or aspiring CIOs.” (eweek, December 25, 2006)
You have what it takes to be a CIO. Do you have a strategy for getting there? Now you do.
“Gregory Smith has written the definitive work [...]
Posted by admin on 16 Jun 2009 at 3:45 am under Business
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Integrate Web 2.0 trends and technologies into the enterprise
Written by a team of experts from the Web 2.0 community and Oracle Corporation, this innovative guide provides a blueprint for leveraging the new culture of participation in an enterprise environment. Reshaping Your Business with Web 2.0 offers proven strategies for the successful adoption of [...]
Posted by admin on 13 Jun 2009 at 11:08 pm under Business
Trend Tracking: The System to Profit from Today’s Trends: Gerald Celente, Tom Milton
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From Library Journal
Celente, a consultant in the trendy alchemy of trend-tracking, weighs in here with a Megatrends- like forecasting system. He offers to turn his readers into trend-trackers themselves, who will then “profit” [...]
Posted by admin on 13 Jun 2009 at 1:13 am under Business
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From Library Journal
Nutt (management, Ohio State Univ.) has spent 20 years collecting and studying more than 400 decisions made by upper-level management in corporate, government, and nonprofit organizations. Here, he selects 15 decisions that led to debacles and gives the background for each decision, what [...]
Posted by admin on 06 Mar 2009 at 1:16 am under Recommended
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Review
Theodore Levitt
Editor, “Harvard Business Review; ” author of “The Marketing Imagination”
“Marketing High Technology” is a rare and marvellous book — rare because it shows, in its own readable words, that while “great devices are invented in the laboratory, great products are invented in the Marketing [...]
Posted by admin on 05 Mar 2009 at 1:34 am under Recommended
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More than fifty years ago, Joseph Schumpeter stated that processes intrinsic to a capitalist society produce a “creative destruction,” whereby innovations destroy obsolete technologies, only to be assaulted in turn by newer and more efficient rivals. This book asks whether the current chaotic state of the telecommunications and related Internet industries [...]
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