{"title":"Managing the global impacts of IT: standing on conceptual quicksand","authors":"John Tillquist","doi":"10.4018/JGIM.1997100101","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"As scholars and expert practitioners, we portray globalization and technological innovation as key drivers for a new industrial age. We herald the dawn of an “information revolution,†a new economy revolutionizing the organization of production and distribution, an upheaval of long-stead technical, political, and economic institutions of our society. But as information professionals, how well equipped are we to explain and predict — much less lead — this revolution? On what foundation do we stake our claim as knowledgeable experts? Today I want to discuss with you just this issue.","PeriodicalId":44735,"journal":{"name":"Information Resources Management Journal","volume":"10 1","pages":"37-38"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1000,"publicationDate":"1997-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Information Resources Management Journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4018/JGIM.1997100101","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
As scholars and expert practitioners, we portray globalization and technological innovation as key drivers for a new industrial age. We herald the dawn of an “information revolution,†a new economy revolutionizing the organization of production and distribution, an upheaval of long-stead technical, political, and economic institutions of our society. But as information professionals, how well equipped are we to explain and predict — much less lead — this revolution? On what foundation do we stake our claim as knowledgeable experts? Today I want to discuss with you just this issue.
期刊介绍:
Topics should be drawn from, but not limited to, the following areas, with major emphasis on the managerial and organizational aspects of information resource and technology management: •Application of IT to operation •Artificial intelligence and expert systems technologies and issues •Business process management and modeling •Data warehousing and mining •Database management technologies and issues •Decision support and group decision support systems •Distance learning technologies and issues •Distributed software development •E-collaboration •Electronic commerce technologies and issues •Electronic government •Emerging technologies management