Author(s): Stuart Robbins
Publisher: Wiley
Year: 2006
ISBN: 0471790109
Language: English
File type: PDF
Pages: 382
Size : 6.5 MB
This book is an experiment in discourse. It uses the medium of the story to engage the issues and ideas of business. Unlike other such experiments, such as "The Goal", this book is profoundly intellectual in the very best sense of the term. And it needs to be, for it is tackling a deep idea, the notion that our computer systems replicate our social relationships and that managing either can be improved by learning from the other.
The notion that computer and social systems are ecologically intertwined is at first startling, but within seconds it becomes commonplace. Of course they are intertwined—how could they not be? But then why have we not made more of this in the past? Well, that is what bright ideas are all about: they show us things we are pretty sure we already knew but have never brought properly into focus.
Too many among us believe that technology and technology decision making is “someone else’s job.” Who can forget the CEO involved in a white collar fraud case who responded to the question, “You had a computer on your desk didn’t you?” with “Yes, but it was just for show.” Prison isn’t bad enough for this kind of mindset. We should extract his critical organs and donate them to more deserving people higher on the evolutionary food chain. Fortunately, this kind of thinking will soon migrate from being passively stupid to being prosecutably malfeasant.
TABLE OF CONTENT:
Chapter 01 - The Prime Theorem
Chapter 02 - Interfaces
Chapter 03 - Relationship Management
Chapter 04 - Virtualization
Chapter 05 - Orchestration
Chapter 06 - Complexity
Chapter 07 - Distributed Resources
Chapter 08 - Flash Teams
Chapter 09 - Network as Narrative Form
Chapter 10 - Identity
Chapter 11 - Organizational Architecture
Chapter 12 - (Theory of) Resonant Usability
Chapter 13 - Turbulence
Chapter 14 - Libraries
Chapter 15 - Abstraction
Chapter 16 - Insubordination as an Asset
Chapter 17 - The Consortium
Chapter 18 - The Everysphere
Chapter 19 - Q Narratives
Chapter 20 - Leaving Flatland
Chapter 21 - We Are the Platform
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