Paradigm Shift:
The New Promise of Information Technology
by Don Tapscott and Art Caston.
337 pages. From McGraw-Hill, Inc.
Written for those who are responsible for Information Technology in their organizations, this book is nonetheless interesting for anyone who wants more insight into the ways that this technology is changing the way we live and work.
Tapscott and Caston are both Vice-presidents of DMR, a large, leading Canadian-based provider of information technology services.Writing in language that most will understand, they explain how organizations can transition to a new kind of enterprise and business success. Drawing from a series of multimillion dollar investigations of more than 4,500 organizations, they examine and synthesize the recent experiences of leading edge companies in making the transition to the "second era".
Work group computing and business process reengineering; creating integrated, competitive organizations; and interenterprise computing that links organizations to their customers, suppliers and business partners --- these are the kinds of major trends that the authors see unfolding as creative new ways are found to use information technologies.
This one should be on your bookshelf if you're managing an organization in the '90s, or are charged with optimizing the use of information systems.
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