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Diamonds Are Forever, Computers Are Not : Economic And Strategic Management In Computing Markets.
This is a collection of 43 essays about the economics and managementof information technology markets. The first part of the book focuseson events, notable birth dates and longstanding trends. The unifyingtheme revolves around the role of human economic behavior in the faceof uncertainty and confusi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Singapore :
World Scientific Publishing Company,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Diamonds Are Forever, Computers Are Not : |b Economic And Strategic Management In Computing Markets. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Preface; What is here; How to write an essay about the economics of technology; How did this start?; Acknowledgments; Part I. Musings; 1. Diamonds are Forever, Computers are Not; Markets and changing quality; Several phases; The long view; Down on one knee; 2. A Birthday Even a Curmudgeon Could Love; Why they're (almost) right; Why they miss the mark; So, what's to remember?; 3. It has Bugs, but the Games are out of This World; Innovative for its time; Clocks and toys; Designers' motives; Parting thoughts; 4. The Biology of Technology; Technologists love the life cycle. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a What do buyers see?The sellers see it differently; Parting observations; 5. Virulent Word of Mouse; A background story; Get behind the strategy; One key condition; Another key condition; It depends on the web; 6. An Earful about Zvi's E-mail; Seeds of change; Parallels; Diffusion becomes personal; Epilogue; Part II. Observations, Fleeting and Otherwise; 7. Repetitive Stress Injuries; The basics of insurance and RSIs; Handling unknown risks; Potential resolutions; Muddling through; 8. To Have and to Have Not; What is a techno-have and why is it important?; Does any of this matter? | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Are these divisions entirely bad?Looking forward; 9. Uncertainty, Prediction, and the Unexpected; Competitive environments; The difference between prediction and inevitability; Ideas from unexpected corners; Survival and planning; 10. When Technologies Converge; Convergence and markets; System and market levels; Ultrasound revealed; More than technological determinism; 11. Forecasting Commercial Change; Waves of IT advances; Why forecasting is difficult; Epilogue; 12. The Tape Story Tapestry: Historical Research with Inaccessible Digital Information Technologies. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a The unwinding of the tape storySerendipity in the archives; Searching for electronic records; Private incentives to keep historical data; The title held promise; The search focuses on IBM; Unlocking the archives at IBM; After information is stored will anyone be able to retrieve it?; References; Part III. Developing the Digital World; 13. The Salad Days of On-line Shopping; Now we get to the interesting economics; 14. Don't Call it a Highway!; Highway economics; What is the right metaphor?; 15. Commercializing the Internet; TCP/IP origins; Commercialization of the Internet. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Why commercialization was so explosive16. Building the Virtual World; Vertical chain; Creation of value; Same opportunity, different strategy; Adaptiveness; 17. A Revolution? How Do You Know?; Pervasive and rapid change; Pervasive and unsettled characteristics; Business experimentation moving forward; 18. PCs, the Internet, and You; Asymmetric treatment of access; The end of common-carrier regulation; The end of universal service; Part IV. Internet Boom and Bust; 19. An Era of Impatience; The source of impatience; Trade-offs everywhere; Carpe diem and all that. | |
| 500 | |a 20. Shortfalls, Downturns and Recessions. | ||
| 520 | |a This is a collection of 43 essays about the economics and managementof information technology markets. The first part of the book focuseson events, notable birth dates and longstanding trends. The unifyingtheme revolves around the role of human economic behavior in the faceof uncertainty and confusion. The contributors' intent is to explain, educate and entertain to go beyond the obvious. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 546 | |a English. | ||
| 590 | |a ProQuest Ebook Central |b Ebook Central Academic Complete | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Computer industry. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Internet industry. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Technological innovations |x Economic aspects. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Informatique |x Industrie. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Internet |x Industrie. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Innovations |x Aspect économique. | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Computer industry |2 fast | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Internet industry |2 fast | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Technological innovations |x Economic aspects |2 fast | |
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