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Valueware Technology, Humanity and Organization
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Christopher Barnatt
Book Code: C6714
ISBN: 0-275-96714-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-96714-7
248 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 6/30/1999
List Price: $110.95 (UK Sterling Price: £65.00)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Paperback
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  • This extraordinary book presents an absorbing perspective on today and tomorrow. Strongly recommended.
    —Stern's Management Review/Stern's Sourcefinder
Description: Against an emerging landscape of intranets, extranets, virtual communities, and virtual reality, this book highlights the dangers of individuals or organizations becoming technology-rich but value blind. Valueware also champions the evolution of a gentler mode of capitalism as just one of many hopes for a more caring and sustainable 21st century. After detailing the critical forces now driving the convergence of technology, humanity, and organization, Barnatt then balances a wide spectrum of value perspectives, including those of past and present management gurus, Internet pioneers, and Generation Xers. Knowledge-empowered individuals and organizations are already beginning to learn the value of global interdependence over independence. Cutting-edge technologies and new social structures may also soon empower more relationship-rich markets, which begin to mediate human affiliation via money but in a gentler capitalist structure. Barnatt doesn't claim to predict the world of tomorrow. However, by detailing alternative millennial realities from which key future-shapers may choose, it instead champions "future gazing as future shaping."
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Prologue
  • Prelude
  • Covergence Forces
  • Networks and Middleware
  • Flexibility or Identity?
  • Playing at God
  • Value Perspectives
  • Maximising Corporate Success
  • Voices from Cyberspace
  • The Next Generation?
  • Conclusions
  • Millennial Realities
  • Hopes and Fears for Century 21
  • Epilogue
  • Further Reading
  • References and Notes
  • Index
LC Card Number: 99-24163
LCC Class: T58
Dewey Class: 303
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