Information ecology mastering the information and knowledge environment

• Main Author: Davenport, Thomas H. (Author)
• Other Authors: Prusak, Laurence
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 1997
• Subjects: Information resources management; Business > Data processing > Management
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 According to virtually every business writer, we are in the midst of a new "information age," one that will revolutionize how workers work, how companies compete, perhaps even how thinkers think. And it is certainly true that Information Technology has become a giant industry. In America, more that 50% of all capital spending goes into IT, accounting for more than a third of the growth of the entire American economy in the last four years. Over the last decade, IT spending in the U.S. is estimated at 3 trillion dollars. And yet, by almost all accounts, IT hasn't worked all that well. Why is it that so many of the companies that rave invested in these costly new technologies never saw the returns they had hoped for? And why do workers, even CEOs, find it so hard to adjust to new IT systems?