Janet Abbate recounts the key players and technologies that allowed the Internet to develop; but her main focus is always on the social and cultural factors that influenced the Internet's design and use. Since the late 1960s the Internet has grown from a single experimental network serving a dozen sites in the United States to…
With a number of disparate, often geographically distributed,organisations involved in the delivery of construction projects,there has been considerable interest in e-business tools within theconstruction industry. These tools open up a range of possibilitiesfor the industry to rethink existing processes and working methods,so their use is increasingly common. Nevertheless, there has beenlittle definitive guidance for practitioners,…
After he was selected to be NATO’s sixteenth Supreme Allied Commander, The New York Times described Jim Stavridis as a “Renaissance admiral.” A U. S. Naval Academy graduate with a master’s degree and doctorate from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, conversant in both French and Spanish, this author of numerous…
What happens when the bottlenecks that stand between supply and demand in our culture go away and everything becomes available to everyone? "The Long Tail" is a powerful new force in our economy: the rise of the niche. As the cost of reaching consumers drops dramatically, our markets are shifting from a one-size-fits-all model of…
Martin Fransman presents a new approach to understanding how innovation happens, who makes it happen, and the helps and hindrances. Looking at innovation in real-time under uncertainty, he develops the idea of an 'innovation ecosystem', i.e. a system of interrelated players and processes that jointly make innovation happen. Examples include: how companies like Amazon, Google,…
En este libro, el experto en innovación Idris Mootee da un enfoque alternativo al statu quo para la innovación empresarial y comercial, que ya comienza a adoptarse en las compañías de alto nivel: el design thinking. Aunque no es algo nuevo, el autor brinda una mirada fresca y nuevas perspectivas sobre sus aplicaciones prácticas, como…
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Esta obra es del profesor y doctor Felipe Chibás Ortiz, dedicado a su familia, amigos, a Cuba y América; está compuesta por ocho capítulos, recomendaciones, imágenes y anexos distribuidos en 360 páginas. Es un libro ameno e interesante, y su propósito es explicar la nueva etapa de vida poshumana en que está entrando la humanidad,…
Las experiencias aquí recogidas, vividas, revisadas y escritas por los propios gestores de diferentes Unidades de Apoyo a la Innovación de nuestro país se han organizado en cinco apartados tratando de ayudar al lector en su lectura y su consulta. Estos cinco apartados: acuerdos y colaboraciones con empresas, estrategias de mercado y modelo de negocio,…
Todos los textos seleccionados pertenecen a libros de los autores José Gimeno Sacristán, Philipe Perrenoud, María Clemente Linuesa y Rafael Feito Alonso, publicados con anterioridad por la Editorial Morata. Las páginas finales del libro incluyen la reproducción de las carátulas de los libros originales, con el fin de facilitar su localización y consulta a todas…