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Author: Martins Untals Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 226
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Are you unable to understand why the Business keeps fighting with the IT department? Are you surprised by the extensive budget required to build a new version of the corporate website? Is the backlog of changes in IT systems so long that you feel that making a new change request is pointless? All those questions and many more are contemplated, analyzed, and answered in this book. By reading it, you will understand how various psychological quirks of human nature affect the way corporations build their IT organizations, processes, and systems; how goals are set; how tenders are made; and how various stakeholders interact with one another. The biggest issue identified in the book is the large amount of invisible IT complexity that accumulates over time and influences business decisions more and more. There is no silver bullet provided to solve it, but there are multiple methods outlined that will allow you to identify issues faster and step up your fight against this challenge.
Author: Martins Untals Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 226
Book Description
Are you unable to understand why the Business keeps fighting with the IT department? Are you surprised by the extensive budget required to build a new version of the corporate website? Is the backlog of changes in IT systems so long that you feel that making a new change request is pointless? All those questions and many more are contemplated, analyzed, and answered in this book. By reading it, you will understand how various psychological quirks of human nature affect the way corporations build their IT organizations, processes, and systems; how goals are set; how tenders are made; and how various stakeholders interact with one another. The biggest issue identified in the book is the large amount of invisible IT complexity that accumulates over time and influences business decisions more and more. There is no silver bullet provided to solve it, but there are multiple methods outlined that will allow you to identify issues faster and step up your fight against this challenge.
Author: Donald A. Norman Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 0262528940 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 309
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Why we don't really want simplicity, and how we can learn to live with complexity. If only today's technology were simpler! It's the universal lament, but it's wrong. In this provocative and informative book, Don Norman writes that the complexity of our technology must mirror the complexity and richness of our lives. It's not complexity that's the problem, it's bad design. Bad design complicates things unnecessarily and confuses us. Good design can tame complexity. Norman gives us a crash course in the virtues of complexity. Designers have to produce things that tame complexity. But we too have to do our part: we have to take the time to learn the structure and practice the skills. This is how we mastered reading and writing, driving a car, and playing sports, and this is how we can master our complex tools. Complexity is good. Simplicity is misleading. The good life is complex, rich, and rewarding—but only if it is understandable, sensible, and meaningful.
Author: B. Moore Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230512135 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 577
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This book makes the case that economies are complex systems and in response to this, develops a unique dynamic nonequilibrium process analysis of macroeconomics. It provides a brief introduction to complex systems, chaos theory and unit roots. The importance and implications of contingency for economic behaviour are developed.
Author: Donald A. Norman Publisher: ISBN: 9780262640411 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 320
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This text argues that companies must start with an understanding of people in relation to the development of products: user needs first, technology last - the opposite of how things are done now.
Author: M. Mitchell Waldrop Publisher: Open Road Media ISBN: 150405914X Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 492
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“If you liked Chaos, you’ll love Complexity. Waldrop creates the most exciting intellectual adventure story of the year” (The Washington Post). In a rarified world of scientific research, a revolution has been brewing. Its activists are not anarchists, but rather Nobel Laureates in physics and economics and pony-tailed graduates, mathematicians, and computer scientists from all over the world. They have formed an iconoclastic think-tank and their radical idea is to create a new science: complexity. They want to know how a primordial soup of simple molecules managed to turn itself into the first living cell—and what the origin of life some four billion years ago can tell us about the process of technological innovation today. This book is their story—the story of how they have tried to forge what they like to call the science of the twenty-first century. “Lucidly shows physicists, biologists, computer scientists and economists swapping metaphors and reveling in the sense that epochal discoveries are just around the corner . . . [Waldrop] has a special talent for relaying the exhilaration of moments of intellectual insight.” —The New York Times Book Review “Where I enjoyed the book was when it dove into the actual question of complexity, talking about complex systems in economics, biology, genetics, computer modeling, and so on. Snippets of rare beauty here and there almost took your breath away.” —Medium “[Waldrop] provides a good grounding of what may indeed be the first flowering of a new science.” —Publishers Weekly
Author: John L Mariotti Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1605508535 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 204
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Management consultant John L. Mariotti shows you how to evaluate your cost and management systems so you can clear away complexity—and conquer your competition. Many companies today are in crisis. In the quest to grow their business in flat or declining markets, they have created dozens of new products and services while increasing their customer, vendor, and marketplace relationships. But even as top-line revenues go up, this rising tide of complexity is drowning bottom-line profits. The Complexity Crisis shows you how to streamline your business for greatest efficiency, effectiveness, and profitability. You'll learn how to: -Target complexity in your organization and reduce or eliminate it -Build a simple, effective corporate structure -Add value to your business by avoiding complexity traps
Author: John E. Mayfield Publisher: Columbia University Press ISBN: 0231535287 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 417
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The concepts of evolution and complexity theory have become part of the intellectual ether permeating the life sciences, the social and behavioral sciences, and, more recently, management science and economics. In this book, John E. Mayfield elegantly synthesizes core concepts from multiple disciplines to offer a new approach to understanding how evolution works and how complex organisms, structures, organizations, and social orders can and do arise based on information theory and computational science. Intended for the intellectually adventuresome, this book challenges and rewards readers with a nuanced understanding of evolution and complexity that offers consistent, durable, and coherent explanations for major aspects of our life experiences. Numerous examples throughout the book illustrate evolution and complexity formation in action and highlight the core function of computation lying at the work's heart.
Author: Daniel J. Sharfstein Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101475803 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 455
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"The Invisible Line" shines light on one of the most important, but too often hidden, aspects of American history and culture. Sharfstein's narrative of three families negotiating America's punishing racial terrain is a must read for all who are interested in the construction of race in the United States." --Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello In America, race is a riddle. The stories we tell about our past have calcified into the fiction that we are neatly divided into black or white. It is only with the widespread availability of DNA testing and the boom in genealogical research that the frequency with which individuals and entire families crossed the color line has become clear. In this sweeping history, Daniel J. Sharfstein unravels the stories of three families who represent the complexity of race in America and force us to rethink our basic assumptions about who we are. The Gibsons were wealthy landowners in the South Carolina backcountry who became white in the 1760s, ascending to the heights of the Southern elite and ultimately to the U.S. Senate. The Spencers were hardscrabble farmers in the hills of Eastern Kentucky, joining an isolated Appalachian community in the 1840s and for the better part of a century hovering on the line between white and black. The Walls were fixtures of the rising black middle class in post-Civil War Washington, D.C., only to give up everything they had fought for to become white at the dawn of the twentieth century. Together, their interwoven and intersecting stories uncover a forgotten America in which the rules of race were something to be believed but not necessarily obeyed. Defining their identities first as people of color and later as whites, these families provide a lens for understanding how people thought about and experienced race and how these ideas and experiences evolved-how the very meaning of black and white changed-over time. Cutting through centuries of myth, amnesia, and poisonous racial politics, The Invisible Line will change the way we talk about race, racism, and civil rights.
Author: V. E. Schwab Publisher: Tor Books ISBN: 0765387581 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 484
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER USA TODAY BESTSELLER NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER THE WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER Recommended by Entertainment Weekly, Real Simple, NPR, Slate, and Oprah Magazine #1 Library Reads Pick—October 2020 #1 Indie Next Pick—October 2020 BOOK OF THE YEAR (2020) FINALIST—Book of The Month Club A “Best Of” Book From: Oprah Mag * CNN * Amazon * Amazon Editors * NPR * Goodreads * Bustle * PopSugar * BuzzFeed * Barnes & Noble * Kirkus Reviews * Lambda Literary * Nerdette * The Nerd Daily * Polygon * Library Reads * io9 * Smart Bitches Trashy Books * LiteraryHub * Medium * BookBub * The Mary Sue * Chicago Tribune * NY Daily News * SyFy Wire * Powells.com * Bookish * Book Riot * Library Reads Voter Favorite * In the vein of The Time Traveler’s Wife and Life After Life, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is New York Times bestselling author V. E. Schwab’s genre-defying tour de force. A Life No One Will Remember. A Story You Will Never Forget. France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever—and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world. But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name. Also by V. E. Schwab Shades of Magic A Darker Shade of Magic A Gathering of Shadows A Conjuring of Light Villains Vicious Vengeful At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: Andrew Jennings Publisher: Asha John ISBN: 1411693779 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 210
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Why did we evolve to be altruistic? Why did we evolve to value a society of equals? How did we become capable of culture? For the first time promising clues to these puzzles are emerging from an unexpected field - computer science. Delicate living systems and bulky computers, according to a growing body of research, are both information systems engaged in the storage, transmission, and processing of information. This shared characteristic of life systems and our information technology devices gives us an opportunity to study human evolution using concepts from computer science. Such analysis points to the existence of an important 'invisible' adaptation in human beings. This 'invisible' adaptation is the reason we evolved to be cultural beings, who are altruistic, who value equality, and our aging elders. www.altruism-evolution.com
Author: Martins Untals
Author: Martins Untals
Author: Donald A. Norman
Author: B. Moore
Author: Donald A. Norman
Author: M. Mitchell Waldrop
Author: John L Mariotti
Author: John E. Mayfield
Author: Daniel J. Sharfstein
Author: V. E. Schwab
Author: Andrew Jennings