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Andrew McAfee’s eagerly anticipated book, Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative Tools for Your Organization’s Toughest Challenges, is now available from Harvard Business Press. McAfee coined the phrase “Enterprise 2.0” in a Spring 2006 Sloan Management Review article to describe the use of Web 2.0 tools and approaches by businesses. His blog, andrewmcafee.org/blog, is widely read, becoming at times one of the 10,000 most popular in the world (according to Technorati).
Analytics at Work: Smarter Decisions, Better Results from Tom Davenport, Jeanne Harris and Bob Morison is now available. A follow-up to the successful Competing on Analytics, the renowned authors provide practical frameworks and tools for organizations that want to use analytics as a basis for more effective and more profitable decision-making. Regardless of an organization’s strategy and whether or not analytics are a company's primary source of competitive differentiation, this book is designed to help managers assess their organization's analytical capabilities, provide the tools to build these capabilities and put analytics to work.
Nicholas Carr, best-selling author of The Big Switch returns in June, 2010 with an explosive look at technology’s effect on the mind in The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. As we enjoy the Net’s bounties, are we sacrificing our ability to read and think deeply? Now Carr expands his argument into the most compelling exploration of the Internet’s intellectual and cultural consequences yet published. Weaving insights from philosophy, neuroscience, and history into a rich narrative, The Shallows explains how the Net is rerouting our neural pathways, replacing the subtle mind of the book reader with the distracted mind of the screen watcher. A gripping story of human transformation played out against a backdrop of technological upheaval, The Shallows will forever alter the way we think about media and our minds.
Award winning author and thought leader Peter Weill with co-author Jeanne Ross have published IT Savvy, Harvard Business Press, 2009, in which they explain how non-IT executives can acquire this savvy. Concise and practical, the book describes the practices, competencies, and leadership skills non-IT managers need to succeed in the digital economy. |