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Textbook Details

By John Gallaugher
Published
August 2022
Discipline
Information Systems Textbooks
ISBN (Digital)
978-1-4533-4169-8

Brief Table of Contents

  • Chapter 1: Setting the Stage: Technology and the Modern Enterprise
  • Chapter 2: Strategy and Technology: Concepts and Frameworks for Achieving Success
  • Chapter 3: FreshDirect: A Tech-Heavy Online Grocer Succeeds Where Others Fail
  • Chapter 4: Zara: Fast Fashion from Savvy Systems
  • Chapter 5: Netflix in Two Acts: Sustaining Leadership in an Epic Shift from Atoms to Bits
  • Chapter 6: Moore's Law and More: Fast, Cheap Computing, and What This Means for the Manager
  • Chapter 7: Disruptive Technologies: Understanding Giant Killers and Tactics to Avoid Extinction
  • Chapter 8: Amazon: An Empire Stretching from Cardboard Box to Kindle to Cloud
  • Chapter 9: Platforms, Network Effects, and Competing in a Winner-Take-All World
  • Chapter 10: Social Media, Peer Production, and Leveraging the Crowd
  • Chapter 11: The Sharing Economy, Collaborative Consumption, and Efficient Markets through Tech
  • Chapter 12: Facebook: Platforms, Privacy, and Big Business from the Social Graph
  • Chapter 13: Rent the Runway: Entrepreneurs Expanding an Industry by Blending Tech with Fashion
  • Chapter 14: Understanding Software: A Primer for Managers
  • Chapter 15: Software in Flux: Open Source, Cloud, Virtualized, and App-Driven Shifts
  • Chapter 16: Data and Competitive Advantage: Databases, Analytics, AI, and Machine Learning
  • Chapter 17: Advertising Technologies: Balancing Personalization with Privacy as Technology and Regulation Evolve
  • Chapter 18: A Manager’s Guide to the Internet and Telecommunications
  • Chapter 19: Information Security: Barbarians at the Gateway (and Just About Everywhere Else)
  • Chapter 20: Google in Three Parts: Search, Online Advertising, and an Alphabet of Opportunity
  • Appendix A: Essential Skills for Excel

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