Electronic Commerce Suggested
Reading List
Dr. Richard Scudder
We are in the
midst of a total revolution in the both information technology and the business
world. The past five years have left
all of us gasping as we try to adjust to changes that few if any could
anticipate. The changes expected over
the next few years are equally as challenging.
For example, Gordon Moore, one of the founders of Intel, postulated that
computing power doubles every eighteen months while the cost remains constant. Consider what that means… What kind of computing power will be
available 10 years from now? It will
quite literally dwarf what we have now.
With the intensity
of change come both challenge and opportunity.
Organizations that recognize the speed and complexity of change will
have the opportunity to become more competitive. Organizations that hide from change will disappear. Creativity is driving new uses for
technology and creative changes in products and customer relations. The need to remain competitive in this
environment calls for new strategies and forward-looking management.
This course is
offered with those challenges in mind.
Before coming to the course, look through some of the following
materials on the Internet. They will
give you food for thought as we focus on the impact of technology.
STRATEGY
This is one of the
better places on the web to look at articles about the inter-action of
technology and business. Look through
the site and browse to find articles of interest. Pay particular attention to the Research Centers section on the
left frame. Here are a couple of articles in particular:
Talking Strategy 1 –
Ideas from John Henderson
Key Strategy Ideas
– Slides about intranet strategies
E- Strategies
– Today’s hired guns
Conceptualizing
Strategic IT Applications
Here is a slide
show about the Basic
Concepts in Information Systems Technology,
As well as an
article on some of the basic Concepts: The
Effective Information Technology Strategy
The Net as an
Architecture
Read
Larry Ellison’s article on the net as an architecture and how he expects it to
change Information Technology over the next few years: Net
is the Last Computing Architecture.
There
is also another excellent article on the changing of the net from Sun: What
will the corporate computing infrastructure look like in the year 2000?
And
finally, one on the key technologies: The
Technology
Strategy Links
The Financial
Services Forum has also created a series of links to strategy documents in its article links. For some
articles that discuss some new concepts such as knowledge management and
organizational learning visit Brint.com