Information for Innovation - Managing Change from an Information Perspective (Hardcover)

Information is not taken seriously. Much is said about the information age, the information economy, the information society, and particularly about information technology, but little about information itself. If these are important, then so is information. But information is not as other goods: it has some peculiar characteristics. It cannot be displayed for sale without giving it away in the process. Sold, it goes to the buyer but still remains with the seller. Buying entails expressing demand in ignorance for buyers who do not know just what it is that they do not know. Such characteristics have long been recognised by economists, but it is not generally economists who have most to say about the importance of information. This privilege is exercised by senior managers, who speak passionately about knowledge-based, learning organizations; by politicians and public servants, anxious to compensate with policy and programme for the information failure of organization and market; and by specialists in telecommunications and information technology, bent on adding value to what they treat as just a commodity. Information usually requires new information. Finding, acquiring, and mixing

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2001
First published:	June 1998
Authors:	Stuart MacDonald (Professor, Management School)
Dimensions:	224 x 145 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	306
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-828825-1
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Business strategy Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Business mathematics & systems > General Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Management & management techniques > Management decision making > General
LSN:	0-19-828825-5
Barcode:	9780198288251

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