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Managing IT in Government, Business & Communities (Repost)

Posted By: DZ123
Managing IT in Government, Business & Communities (Repost)

Gerry Gingrich, "Managing IT in Government, Business & Communities"
English | 2003 | ISBN: 1931777403 | CHM | pages: 312 | 1,2 mb

Management of information technology in today's connected, information rich global marketplace is a far cry from management in the 1980s and 1990s. Today's computing environment is ubiquitous, networked, and systemically connected; yesterday's computing environment was distributed, centralized, and stovepiped. From selecting and designing systems to implementing and evaluating systems, an organization and its leadership are challenged to perform differently than in the past. The articles in this volume illustrate new organizational, leadership, and management approaches to information systems and technology. They are drawn from international governments, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and universities. The diversity and range of the articles underscores the pervasiveness of the trends that are changing today's global computing landscape.

Computing in today's world is ubiquitous. Increasing numbers of people have access to information technology; the variety of IT devices continues to proliferate; technology prices continue to fall; and people are educated and trained in the use of technology at increasingly younger and older ages. People around the world continue to access digital technology with increasing frequency. As rural areas decline in population and cities increase in population, people have greater and greater access to computing technology in the office and home, in airports, hotels, and coffeshops, and on the local street corner. Additionally, the variety of information technology devices is increasing. IT still assumes the traditional form of microcomputers, but it also appears in everything from palm pilots and cell phones to automobiles and traffic lights, to smart cards and facial scanners. And despite a predicted slowdown in the growth of computing power, the power of digital devices from year to year still continues to follow Moore's law and the price per megaflop continues to drop exponentially. Finally, individuals around the world interact with technology during periods of their lives that would be considered unusual 10–15 years ago. Child programmers and hackers are commonplace, and retired workers are turning to digital communications for second careers and hobbies and to keep up with the grandchildren. All of these trends - increasing access, increasing types of IT devices, decreasing prices, and increasing numbers of computer users - are helping to create a world of ubiquitous computing.

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