15 Books found for subject: Trends / Analysis

Human beings are information omnivores: we are constantly collecting, labeling, and organizing data. But today, the shift from the physical to the digital is mixing, burning, and ripping our lives apart. In the past, everything had its one place–the physical world demanded it–but now everything has its places: multiple categories, multiple shelves. Simply put, everything is suddenly miscellaneous.

In Everything Is Miscellaneous, David Weinberger charts the … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: David Weinberger | Subject: Trends / Analysis

Scenarios are now a part of every successful manager’s toolkit. This book is the first comprehensive guide to the latest developments in scenario thinking written by today’s leading practitioners in the field. -Napier Collyns.

Content: Book | Authors: Liam Fahey, Robert M. Randall | Subjects: Management, Trends / Analysis

Just as information workers surpassed physical laborers in economic importance, Pink claims, the workplace terrain is changing yet again, and power will inevitably shift to people who possess strong right brain qualities. His advocacy of “R-directed thinking” begins with a bit of neuroscience tourism to a brain lab that will be extremely familiar to those who read Steven Johnson’s Mind Wide Open last year, but … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Daniel Pink | Subjects: Personal Development, Trends / Analysis

Thanks to various technological, fiscal, and political revolutions that have reshaped our world over the past two decades, some observers believe, the new millennium will offer opportunities for economic expansion that rival any previously recorded. The Long Boom is a fascinating attempt to pin down this potential upsurge by combining a shrewd examination of where we’ve been headed for the last 20 years with a … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Joel Hyatt, Peter Leyden, Peter Schwartz | Subjects: Economics, Trends / Analysis

The title of this book is a mild pun. People are using smart “mobs” (rhymes with “robes”) to become smart “mobs” (rhymes with “robs”), meaning, sophisticated mobile Internet access is allowing people who don’t know each other to act in concert. In this timely if at times overenthusiastic survey of wireless communication devices, Rheingold (The Virtual Community) conveys how cell phones, pagers and PDAs are … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Howard Rheingold | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Trends / Analysis

Handy, a British specialist in organizational management, predicts that the 21st century will be the Age of Unreason. In an era when changes in business and society will be “discontinuous” or patternless, he suggests that our thinking must become discontinuous or “unreasonable” in order to use such changes to our advantage. While his thesis is generally in line with strategists like Tom Peters ( In … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Charles Handy, Warren G. Bennis | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Trends / Analysis

The average life span of a Fortune 500 company is less than half a century, yet there also are corporations around the world that have been in business for 200, 500, even 700 years. Arie de Geus, a retired Royal Dutch/Shell Group executive, maintains after studying both extremes that the most enduring treat their companies as “living work communities” rather than pure economic machines. The … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Arie De Geus | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Trends / Analysis

If The Future of Ideas is bleak, we have nobody to blame but ourselves. Author Lawrence Lessig, a Stanford law professor and keen observer of emerging technologies, makes a strong case that large corporations are staging an innovation-stifling power grab while we watch idly. The changes in copyright and other forms of intellectual property protection demanded by the media and software industries have the potential … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Lawrence Lessig | Subjects: Economics, Trends / Analysis

Content: Book | Authors: John Hagel III, Marc Singer | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Trends / Analysis

In this breakthrough business book, Pascale, Millemann and Gioja troll the emerging science of complexity for “ideas [that] can produce a concrete bottom-line impact.” Extracting key “dynamics of survival” from the life sciences, these three management consultants successfully show business leaders how to turn their companies into agile and adaptable “living systems” that achieve long-term vitality and sustainability in a swiftly evolving environment. Their four … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Linda Gioja, Mark Milleman, Richard Tanner Pascale | Subjects: General, Trends / Analysis

From the chief scientist of Xerox Corporation and a research specialist in cultural studies at UC-Berkeley comes a treatise that casts a critical eye at all the hype surrounding the boom of the information age. The authors’ central complaint is that narrowly focusing on new ways to provide information will not create the cyber-revolution so many technology designers have visualized. The problem (or joy) is … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: John Seely Brown, Paul Duguid | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Trends / Analysis

Downes and Mui argue that the dominant trend behind the proliferation of killer apps is a combination of Moore’s Law, which states that the processing power of the CPU doubles every 18 months, and Metcalfe’s Law, which observes that the value of a network increases dramatically with each node that’s added to it. These two laws are fundamentally changing how businesses interact with each other … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Chunka Mui, Larry Downes, Nicholas Negroponte | Subjects: Strategy, Trends / Analysis

Content: Book | Author: George Gilder | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Trends / Analysis

Content: Book | Author: George Gilder | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Trends / Analysis

Content: Book | Authors: David S. Pottruck, Terry Pearce | Subjects: Management, Trends / Analysis