James W Cortada: 11 books
The Digital Hand, Vol 3
How Computers Changed the Work of American Public Sector Industries
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2007
In The third volume of The Digital Hand, James W. Cortada completes his sweeping survey of the effect of computers on American industry, turning finally to the public sector, and examining how computers have fundamentally changed the nature of work in government and education. This book goes far beyond...
The Digital Hand
How Computers Changed the Work of American Manufacturing, Transportation, and Retail Industries
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2003
In The Digital Hand, James W. Cortada combines detailed analysis with narrative history to provide a broad overview of computing's role in sixteen industries, accounting for nearly half of the U.S. economy. Beginning in 1950, when commercial applications of digital technology began to appear, Cortada...
The Digital Hand
Volume II: How Computers Changed the Work of American Financial, Telecommunications, Media, and Entertainment Industries
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2005
The Digital Hand, Volume 2, is a historical survey of how computers and telecommunications have been deployed in over a dozen industries in the financial, telecommunications, media and entertainment sectors over the past half century. It is past of a sweeping three-volume description of how management...
IBM
The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2019
A history of one of the most influential American companies of the last century.
For decades, IBM shaped the way the world did business. IBM products were in every large organization, and IBM corporate culture established a management style that was imitated by companies around the globe. It...
by James W. Cortada
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
During the Spanish Civil War, foreign military officers wrote highly elaborate reports of their experiences at the front. One was attaché Col. Stephen O. Fuqua of the U.S. Army, who had once held the rank of major general. His presence was highly unusual, for most military observers were less-experienced...
by James W. Cortada
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2011
A guide to information as the transformative tool of modern business.
While we have been preoccupied with the latest i-gadget from Apple and with Google's ongoing expansion, we may have missed something: the fundamental transformation of whole firms and industries into giant information-processing...
All the Facts
A History of Information in the United States since 1870
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
All the Facts presents a history of the role of information in the United States since 1870, when the nation began a nearly 150-year period of economic prosperity and technological and scientific transformations. James Cortada argues that citizens and their institutions used information extensively...
The Essential Manager
How to Thrive in the Global Information Jungle
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
This book discusses the evolution of management as a profession over the past two decades and how it continues to evolve. It goes on to describe the new style of management and makes recommendations for what today’s and tomorrow’s managers must know and how to work.
Offers ways to think about...
The Computer in the United States
From Laboratory to Market, 1930-60
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
This book studies how a technological innovation -- in this case the computer -- progresses from its origin as an idea in someone's mind to its eventual manifestation as a useable and marketable consumer product.
History Hunting
A Guide for Fellow Adventurers
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
The book offers guidance to aspiring historians at every stage and in every walk of life, from practical advice on tackling and organizing projects to recommendations for finding and using resources of all kinds, whether at the local library or historical society or on the world wide web. It is intended...
From Urban Legends to Political Fact-Checking
Online Scrutiny in America, 1990-2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2019
This text presents an historical examination of political fact-checking, highlighting how this is part of a larger phenomenon of online scrutiny that manifests itself in multiple forms. Reflecting the long history of “fake facts” in America, the book discusses important developments in this area...