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Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Media, information & communication industries > Information technology industries
The innovation management classic returns for today's fully
digitized world When legendary business thought leaders C.K.
Prahalad and M.S. Krishnan first published The New Age of
Innovation, the book was instantly lauded as one of the most
forward-looking business guides of the year. Now, ten years later,
their predictions that advanced technologies would transform every
business in every industry have been borne out. And their lessons
for managing the software revolution are more critical today than
ever. The New Age of Innovation provides the insights and practices
you need to drive profits and growth in today's interconnected,
software-dominated world-a world where companies partner with
customers to create value. You'll learn how to: *Align all software
systems within your company *Measure individual behavior using
smart analytics *Continuously improve customer-facing and back-end
processes *Make every stakeholder a unique partner in your mission
*Work seamlessly across cultures and time-zones *Create teams that
drive high-quality, low-cost solutions The ubiquity of software and
digitization introduce valuable opportunities for personalized
value creation and global resource partnership. Manage them well
and you'll seize the competitive edge in no time. The New Age of
Innovation provides everything you need to by leveraging the tools
at your disposal to transform their business and dominate your
industry.
Both consumers and enterprises have shown tremendous enthusiasm for
banking online, making payments online and managing their
investments online. Â The incredible popularity and growth of
tools like Zelle and Paypal on the payments side, plus Robinhood
and Mint on the investment management side are good examples of the
immense potential of this industry. Â Related are such new
developments as cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, money transfer tools
like ACH and instant payments, along with new ways to make everyday
purchases like Apple Pay and Google Pay. Once again, Plunkett
Research helps you to stay on top of one of the world’s most
vital industries.
'You won't find a more honest, raw and helpful look into the
trenches of founding a tech startup than this book' Nir Eyal,
author of Hooked 'Rand Fishkin is the real deal' Seth Godin,
entrepreneur and author ----------- Everyone knows how a startup
story is supposed to go: a young, brilliant entrepreneur has an
cool idea, drops out of college, defies the doubters, overcomes all
odds, makes billions and becomes the envy of the technology world.
This is not that story. Rand Fishkin, the founder and former CEO of
Moz, is one of the world's leading experts on SEO. Moz is now a $45
million a year business, but Fishkin's business and reputation took
15 years to grow, and his startup began not in a Harvard dorm room
but as a mother-and-son family business that fell deeply into debt.
Now Fishkin pulls back the curtain on tech startup mythology,
exposing the ups and downs of startup life that most CEOs would
rather keep secret. For instance: a minimally viable product can be
destructive if you launch at the wrong moment. Growth hacking may
be the buzzword du jour, but initiatives to your business can
fizzle quickly. Revenue and profitability won't protect you from
layoffs. And venture capital always comes with strings attached. In
Lost and Founder Fishkin reveals the mostly awful, sometimes
awesome truth about startup culture with the transparency and
humour that his hundreds of thousands of blog readers have come to
love. Fishkin's hard-won lessons are applicable to any kind of
business environment and this book can help solve your problems,
and make you feel less alone for having them. ----------- 'This is
a truly courageous book. It's one part business-building guide and
two parts Indiana Jones-style adventure memoir' Chris Guillebeau,
author of Side Hustle and The $100 Startup 'Rand Fishkin is like
the industry friend we all wish we had - funny, warm, and
refreshingly honest about the rollercoaster ride that is founding
your own company' Julie Zhou, VP of Product Design at Facebook
"Your time is limited. . . . have the courage to follow your heart
and intuition."--Steve Jobs From the start, his path was never
predictable. Steve Jobs was given up for adoption at birth, dropped
out of college after one semester, and at the age of twenty,
created Apple in his parents' garage with his friend Steve
Wozniack. Then came the core and hallmark of his genius--his
exacting moderation for perfection, his counterculture life
approach, and his level of taste and style that pushed all
boundaries. A devoted husband, father, and Buddhist, he battled
cancer for over a decade, became the ultimate CEO, and made the
world want every product he touched. Critically acclaimed author
Karen Blumenthal takes us to the core of this complicated and
legendary man while simultaneously exploring the evolution of
computers. Framed by Jobs' inspirational Stanford commencement
speech and illustrated throughout with black and white photos, this
is the story of the man who changed our world.
For decades, leadership in technological innovation has sustained
U.S. power worldwide. Today, however, processes that undergird
innovation increasingly transcend national borders. Cross-border
flows of brainpower have reached unprecedented heights, while
multinationals invest more and more in high-tech facilities abroad.
In this new world, U.S. technological leadership increasingly
involves collaboration with other countries. China and India have
emerged as particularly prominent partners, most notably as
suppliers of intellectual talent to the United States. In The
Conflicted Superpower, Andrew Kennedy explores how the world's most
powerful country approaches its growing collaboration with these
two rising powers. Whereas China and India have embraced global
innovation, policy in the United States is conflicted. Kennedy
explains why, through in-depth case studies of U.S. policies toward
skilled immigration, foreign students, and offshoring. These make
clear that U.S. policy is more erratic than strategic, the outcome
of domestic battles between competing interests. Pressing for
openness is the "high-tech community"-the technology firms and
research universities that embody U.S. technological leadership.
Yet these pro-globalization forces can face resistance from a range
of other interests, including labor and anti-immigration groups,
and the nature of this resistance powerfully shapes just how open
national policy is. Kennedy concludes by asking whether U.S.
policies are accelerating or slowing American decline, and
considering the prospects for U.S. policy making in years to come.
Both Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg came to Google as seasoned
Silicon Valley business executives, but over the course of a decade
they came to see the wisdom in Coach John Wooden's observation that
'it's what you learn after you know it all that counts'. As they
helped grow Google from a young start-up to a global icon, they
relearned everything they knew about management. How Google Works
is the sum of those experiences distilled into a fun, easy-to-read
primer on corporate culture, strategy, talent, decision-making,
communication, innovation, and dealing with disruption.The authors
explain how the confluence of three seismic changes - the internet,
mobile, and cloud computing - has shifted the balance of power from
companies to consumers. The companies that will thrive in this
ever-changing landscape will be the ones that create superior
products and attract a new breed of multifaceted employees whom the
authors dub 'smart creatives'. The management maxims ('Consensus
requires dissension', 'Exile knaves but fight for divas', 'Think
10X, not 10%') are illustrated with previously unreported anecdotes
from Google's corporate history.' Back in 2010, Eric and I created
an internal class for Google managers,' says Rosenberg. 'The class
slides all read 'Google confidential' until an employee suggested
we uphold the spirit of openness and share them with the world.
This book codifies the recipe for our secret sauce: how Google
innovates and how it empowers employees to succeed.'
This book aims to provide insights on the latest developments in
the area of FinTech. It is a collection of scientific articles
covering primary areas of finance. The following key themes are
covered in the book: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence,
FinTech Regulation and Smart Contracts, Cryptocurrencies, and
FinTech in Financial Services. FinTech is a rapidly developing
industry that uses technological innovations to improve financial
activities and make financial services more accessible and
affordable to businesses and individuals. This book contributes to
the body of knowledge in FinTech offering potential readers a
chance to review and rethink the topics in question.
'Bold, inspired and hopeful' Arianna Huffington, founder and CEO of
Thrive Global 'Lucid and captivating' Max Tegmark, professor of
physics at MIT and author of Life 3.0 A captivating memoir that
chronicles one woman's mission to humanise technology and what she
learns about humanity along the way. Now more than ever, we find
ourselves unable to express our true feelings through technology.
Whether it's a misunderstood text, an oversimplified emoji or a
Skype call that leaves us feeling lonely, when most of our
communication is carried out through tech, the result is a virtual
world that's lacking our humanity - a society lacking in empathy.
Rana el Kaliouby discovered this when she left Cairo, a
newly-married, Muslim woman, to take up her place at Cambridge
University to study computer science. Many thousands of miles from
home, she began to develop systems to help her better connect with
her family. She started to pioneer the new field of Emotional
Intelligence (EI). She now runs her company, Affectiva (the
industry-leader in this emerging field) that builds EI into our
technology and develops systems that understand humans the way we
understand one another. This is the fascinating story of her
mission to humanise technology and what she learns about humanity
along the way.
This report assesses the current ecosystem for tech-based startups
in Thailand, focusing on climate change, education, agriculture,
and health. It discusses the challenges facing tech startups and
provides recommendations to overcome them. Technology-based startup
enterprises are an increasingly important part of the business
landscape in Asia and the Pacific. By applying innovative
technologies to create new products and services, they can make a
significant contribution to economic development while generating
social and environmental benefits. However, to survive and then
thrive, tech startups require an enabling ecosystem that includes
supportive government policy, access to capital, skilled personnel,
quality digital infrastructure and other elements. It is the fourth
country report in the series ""Ecosystems for Technology Startups
in Asia and the Pacific.
As digital transformations continue to accelerate in the world,
discourses of big data have come to dominate in a number of fields,
from politics and economics, to media and education. But how can we
really understand the digital world when so much of the writing
through which we grapple with it remains deeply problematic? In a
compelling new work of feminist critical theory, Bassett, Kember
and O'Riordan scrutinise many of the assumptions of a masculinist
digital world, highlighting the tendency of digital humanities
scholarship to venerate and essentialise technical forms, and to
adopt gendered writing and citation practices. Contesting these
writings, practices and politics, the authors foreground feminist
traditions and contributions to the field, offering alternative
modes of knowledge production, and a radically different, poetic
writing style. Through this prism, Furious brings into focus themes
including the automation of home and domestic work, the
Anthropocene, and intersectional feminist technofutures.
This book discusses the birth and background of the Industrial
Internet, clarifying its definition and structure, and reviewing
the related development trends in China and around the globe,
mainly in terms of policies, networks, platforms, security,
application and standards. Lastly, it provides insights into the
integration of the Industrial Internet with a series of next-gen
information technologies, such as time sensitive networking, 5G,
edge computing, blockchain and artificial intelligence. Intended
for researchers and industrial practitioners who have been
following the evolution of and trends in the Industrial Internet,
the book is also a valuable reference resource for practitioners,
scholars, and technical and engineering managers at various levels
and in various fields.
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