Information and the Modern Corporation

by James W. Cortada

Book Overview

A guide to information as the transformative tool of modern business.

While we have been preoccupied with the latest i-gadget from Apple and with Google's ongoing expansion, we may have missed something: the fundamental transformation of whole firms and industries into giant information-processing machines. Today, more than eighty percent of workers collect and analyze information (often in digital form) in the course of doing their jobs...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262516411
• ISBN13: 9780262516419
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 7.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher