First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 5, 2013

He then worked for six years as a management consultant in Boston and New York, advising large corporations on the strategic use of information technology. In his first job after graduating from MIT, he designed videogames for Atari. He’s been a [.]. Louis Zig Zag: The Surprising Path to Greater Creativity'

Wilde 80

Wilde Drucker Creativity Information Technology 80

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

I was there for a gathering of Human Resources executives, the third conference I have attended this autumn in which a central theme was the “technological revolution” and its implications for employment, education, and lifestyles. Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. Where will new technologies take us?

Technology 8

Technology Drucker Taylorism Taylor 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Digital technology is the biggest agitator of the business world today. Mobile technology, social media, cloud computing, embedded devices, big data, and analytics have radically changed the nature of work and competition. Technology has tremendous potential to be the engine of increasing human, organizational, and economic prosperity.

Management 12

Management Drucker Technology Information Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

In an era of rapid technological and social change, in which new management jargons seem to rise even faster than the disruptive startups that coin them, the career of Peter Drucker is perhaps as instructive as his writings themselves. Drucker himself lived in Austria, Germany, England, and eventually the United States.

Drucker 8

Drucker Koestler Open-book Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Marshall McLuhan wrote famously about the “global village,” created by new information technologies. Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 7th Global Drucker Forum. Networks connect; communities care.

Drucker 8

Drucker Information Technology Globalization Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2015

There is, however, one evident change in recent times that is influencing the practice of managing: the digital technologies which over the past two decades have dramatically increased speed and volume in the transmission of information. As usual, the devil of these technologies can be found in the details.

Management 8

Management Technology Information Technology Drucker 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

The Conversation is also a 1974 film by Francis Ford Coppola whose themes include the role of technology in society and being so focused on what you are doing that you forget why you are doing it and become oblivious to what is happening around you. made me break out in cold sweats. CIOs today must adapt or risk being marginalized.

CIO 8

CIO ROI Agility Information Technology 8