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  • IBM

    The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon

    Series series History of Computing
    A former IBM employee offers an authoritative history of the successes and failures of one of the most influential American companies of the last century.For decades, IBM shaped the way the world did business. IBM products were in every large organization, and IBM corporate culture established a management style that was imitated by companies around the globe. It was “Big Blue”—an icon. And yet ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Beyond the Facts

    Tacit Knowledge and the Hidden Infrastructure of Our Informed Times

    This book describes tacit knowledge, what it is, how it used and its role in our current data driven world. It argues that fuzzy, hard-to describe information is greater and more, important than just hard facts.What is tacit knowledge? It is what we might consider knowledge that is unable to be fully communicated: knowledge that we understand implicitly, but it is a bit hard to explain. For ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Rise of the Knowledge Worker

    by James Cortada ...
    A generation of magnificent scholars, from Peter Drucker to Jack Welch, have taught us that understanding business issues and the profound changes the world's economy is undergoing makes sense if set in historical context. Today the best managers in the world demand to know how things came to be as they are. This collection of essays is designed to give the reader an historical perspective on the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • IBM - The Rise Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon

    A corporate and technology history of IBM tracing its origins from nineteenth-century tabulating businesses through Thomas J. Watson Sr., the THINK culture, the Great Depression, World War II, postwar computing, System/360, the IBM Way, global expansion, antitrust battles, the personal-computer era, the 1985-1993 crisis, Lou Gerstner's turnaround, the shift toward services and software, and later ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Inside IBM

    Lessons of a Corporate Culture in Action

    IBM was the world’s leading provider of information technologies for much of the twentieth century. What made it so successful for such a long time, and what lessons can this iconic corporation teach present-day enterprises?James W. Cortada—a business historian who worked at IBM for many years—pinpoints the crucial role of IBM’s corporate culture. He provides an inside look at how this culture ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Today's Facts

    Understanding the Current Evolution of Information

    This is the third and final volume in a broad study about the role of information largely in the Unites States since the early nineteenth century. This book summarizes how information changed since the early 1800s, what it looks like today, including how it is being influenced by such current circumstances as the role of Big Data, artificial intelligence, misinformation on the Internet, and the ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Digital Hand, Vol 3

    How Computers Changed the Work of American Public Sector Industries

    In The third volume of The Digital Hand, James W. Cortada completes his sweeping survey of the effect of computers on American industry, turning finally to the public sector, and examining how computers have fundamentally changed the nature of work in government and education. This book goes far beyond generalizations about the Information Age to the specifics of how industries have functioned, ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Birth of Modern Facts

    How the Information Revolution Transformed Academic Research, Governments, and Businesses

    For over twenty years, James W. Cortada has pioneered research into how information shapes society. In this book he tells the story of how information evolved since the mid-nineteenth century. Cortada argues that information increased in quantity, became more specialized by discipline (e.g., mathematics, science, political science), and more organized. Information increased in volume due to a ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Inside IBM

    Lessons of a Corporate Culture in Action

    IBM was the world’s leading provider of information technologies for much of the twentieth century. What made it so successful for such a long time, and what lessons can this iconic corporation teach present-day enterprises?James W. Cortada—a business historian who worked at IBM for many years—pinpoints the crucial role of IBM’s corporate culture. He provides an inside look at how this culture ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon (History of Computing)

    Narrated by Brian Conover ...

    Unabridged

    26 hours 55 min

    A former IBM employee offers an authoritative history of the successes and failures of one of the most influential American companies of the last century.For decades, IBM shaped the way the world did business. IBM products were in every large organization, and IBM corporate culture established a management style that was imitated by companies around the globe. It was “Big Blue”—an icon. And yet ... Read more

    $39.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Computer in the United States

    From Laboratory to Market, 1930-60

    This book studies how a technological innovation -- in this case the computer -- progresses from its origin as an idea in someone's mind to its eventual manifestation as a useable and marketable consumer product. ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • All the Facts

    A History of Information in the United States since 1870

    All the Facts presents a history of the role of information in the United States since 1870, when the nation began a nearly 150-year period of economic prosperity and technological and scientific transformations. James Cortada argues that citizens and their institutions used information extensively as tools to augment their work and private lives and that they used facts to help shape how the ... Read more

    $144.89 USD