Valueware
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Overview
Against an emerging landscape of intranets, extranets, virtual communities, and virtual reality, this book highlights the dangers of individuals or organizations becoming technology-rich but value blind. Valueware also champions the evolution of a gentler mode of capitalism as just one of many hopes for a more caring and sustainable 21st century. After detailing the critical forces now driving the convergence of technology, humanity, and organization, Barnatt then balances a wide spectrum of value perspectives, including those of past and present management gurus, Internet pioneers, and Generation Xers.Synopsis
Highlights the danger of individuals or organizations becoming technology-rich but value blind.
Booknews
Considers questions surrounding the creation of value in the future from technological, social, and organizational perspectives, and explores how, in a consumer-driven world that constantly demands further "progress" and "profit," we may avoid becoming technology rich but value blind. Surveys three broad sets of convergence forces likely to become important in the future: networks and middleware, flexible working patterns, and factors that draw more and more technology into human lives. Looks at management evolution, online culture, and the next customer generation, and discusses hopes and fears for humanity's continuing evolution in the 21st century. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)