Fumbling the Future - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fumbling the Future write by Robert C. Alexander. This book was released on 1999-06-01. Fumbling the Future available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ask consumers and users what names they associate with the multibillion dollar personal computer market, and they will answer IBM, Apple, Tandy, or Lotus. The more knowledgable of them will add the likes of Microsoft, Ashton-Tate, Compaq, and Borland. But no one will say Xerox. Fifteen years after it invented personal computing, Xerox still means "copy." Fumbling the Future tells how one of America's leading corporations invented the technology for one of the fastest-growing products of recent times, then miscalculated and mishandled the opportunity to fully exploit it. It is a classic story of how innovation can fare within large corporate structures, the real-life odyssey of what can happen to an idea as it travels from inspiration to implementation. More than anything, Fumbling the Future is a tale of human beings whose talents, hopes, fears, habits, and prejudices determine the fate of our largest organizations and of our best ideas. In an era in which technological creativity and economic change are so critical to the competitiveness of the American economy, Fumbling the Future is a parable for our times.
Dealers of Lightning
Dealers of Lightning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dealers of Lightning write by Michael A. Hiltzik. This book was released on 2009-05-19. Dealers of Lightning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the bestselling tradition of The Soul of a New Machine, Dealers of Lightning is a fascinating journey of intellectual creation. In the 1970s and '80s, Xerox Corporation brought together a brain-trust of engineering geniuses, a group of computer eccentrics dubbed PARC. This brilliant group created several monumental innovations that triggered a technological revolution, including the first personal computer, the laser printer, and the graphical interface (one of the main precursors of the Internet), only to see these breakthroughs rejected by the corporation. Yet, instead of giving up, these determined inventors turned their ideas into empires that radically altered contemporary life and changed the world. Based on extensive interviews with the scientists, engineers, administrators, and executives who lived the story, this riveting chronicle details PARC's humble beginnings through its triumph as a hothouse for ideas, and shows why Xerox was never able to grasp, and ultimately exploit, the cutting-edge innovations PARC delivered. Dealers of Lightning offers an unprecedented look at the ideas, the inventions, and the individuals that propelled Xerox PARC to the frontier of technohistoiy--and the corporate machinations that almost prevented it from achieving greatness.
Book Business: Publishing Past, Present, and Future
Book Business: Publishing Past, Present, and Future - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Book Business: Publishing Past, Present, and Future write by Jason Epstein. This book was released on 2011-02-07. Book Business: Publishing Past, Present, and Future available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "An irresistible book about Grub Street, authorship and the literary marketplace."—Washington Post Book World Jason Epstein has led arguably the most creative career in book publishing during the past half-century. He founded Anchor Books and launched the quality paperback revolution, cofounded the New York Review of Books, and created of the Library of America, the prestigious publisher of American classics, and The Reader's Catalog, the precursor of online bookselling. In this short book he discusses the severe crisis facing the book business today—a crisis that affects writers and readers as well as publishers—and looks ahead to the radically transformed industry that will revolutionize the idea of the book as profoundly as the introduction of movable type did five centuries ago.
Fumbling Toward Divinity
Fumbling Toward Divinity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fumbling Toward Divinity write by Craig Hickman. This book was released on 2005. Fumbling Toward Divinity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Taking Charge Of Change
Taking Charge Of Change - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Taking Charge Of Change write by Douglas K. Smith. This book was released on 1997-04-17. Taking Charge Of Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cooking up great ideas of how things ought to be is easy. Getting things to actually change is hard, especially in large, complex organizations. The meeting about ”the new vision” goes over fine, then everyone drifts back to his or her office and nothing changes. This book provides the diagnostic tools managers need to assess their particular needs for change, and then the tool kit required to implement the changes one wants to see.
