Author: Bernard Girard
Publisher: No Starch Pre
Keywords: revolutionizing, management, company, one, way, google
Number of Pages: 247
Published: 2009-04-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1593271840
ISBN-13: 9781593271848

Shortly after World War I, Ford and GM created the large modern corporation, with its financial and statistical controls, mass production, and assembly lines. In the 1980s, Toyota stood out for combining quality with continuous refinement. Today, Google is reinventing business yet again-the way we work, how organizations are controlled, and how employees are managed. Management consultant Bernard Girard has been analyzing Google since its founding in 1998, and now in "The Google Way," he explores Google’s innovations in depth-many of which are far removed from the best practices taught a

Author: Kim Vicente
Publisher: Random House Inc
Keywords: live, technology, way, revolutionizing, factor, human
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2004
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0676974902
ISBN-13: 9780676974904

Author: Art Bardige
Publisher: Lulu.com
Keywords: revolutionizing, education, needed, ideas, physical, new
Number of Pages: 364
Published: 2007-06-11
List price: $27.96
ISBN-10: 1430312572
ISBN-13: 9781430312574

How can we meet the increasing demands on American education for more content, greater complexity, and much higher levels of student success? How can we make every student a more effective learner? How can we help every teacher support learning more productively? How can we create schools that enable each and every child to achieve the education to which he or she aspires? We can with a new technology of education - a technology focused on student practice and conceptual visualization. Fortunately, this new technology is now at hand, and it can enable us to revolutionize education. Please

Author: Curtis J. Bonk
Publisher: Jossey-Ba
Keywords: revolutionizing, education, technology, web, open, world
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2009-07-27
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0470461306
ISBN-13: 9780470461303

Whether you are a scientist on a ship in Antarctic waters or a young girl in a Philippine village, you can learn whenever and whatever you want from whomever you are interested in learning it from. As technologies have become more available, even in the most remote reaches of the world, and as more people contribute a wealth of online resources, the education world has become open to anyone anywhere. In The World Is Open, education technology guru Curtis Bonk explores ten key trends that together make up the "WE-ALL-LEARN" framework for understanding the potential of technology’s impact

Author: Tom Haye
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: revolutionizing, business, culture, network, point, jump
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2008-02-21
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 007154562X
ISBN-13: 9780071545624

Plug into the nonstop global economy of billion-selling products and trillion-dollar markets The Web 3.0 world of â??pandemic economicsâ? is a new economy that will function outside the traditional laws of commerce, free from today’s impediments to business growth, and in a world where every person is connected to each other. Jump Point is the powerful guide that will help you to challenge old assumptions, rethink your business models, and take advantage of this fast-moving, unfettered, and fiercely competitive environment. Silicon Valley guru Tom Hayes explores how the new economy w

Author: Kim Vicente
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: live, technology, people, way, factor, revolutionizing, human
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2004-02-20
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0415970644
ISBN-13: 9780415970648

In this incessantly readable, groundbreaking work, Vincente makes vividly clear how we can bridge the widening gap between people and technology. He investigates every level of human activity--from simple matters such as our hand-eye coordination to complex human systems such as government regulatory agencies, and why businesses would benefit from making consumer goods easier to use. He shows us why we all have a vital stake in reforming the aviation industry, the health industry, and the way we live day-to-day with technology.

Author: Kim Vicente
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: live, technology, people, way, factor, revolutionizing, human
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2006-02-16
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0415978912
ISBN-13: 9780415978910

"Kim Vicente puts human simplicity back into technology."TIME MagazineTechnological innovation is progressing so quickly that we have fallen behind our ability to manage it. Our world is filled with objects that invite human error-from VCRs to stoves to hospitals, airplane cockpits, and nuclear power plants. Problems-some potentially catastrophic-continuously arise when designs are developed without human nature in mind. What we really need, argues Kim Vicente, is technology that works for people. In this incessantly readable, groundbreaking work, Vicente makes vividly clear how we can