Technomics: The Theory of Industrial EvolutionCRC Press, 18/09/2006 - 256 páginas Have you ever wondered about the forces behind globalization, mass customization, just in time delivery, virtual companies, and perfect information? Providing a platform to understand and navigate our rapidly advancing world, Techonomics: The Theory of Industrial Evolution explains the relationship between technology, economy, and organizati |
Índice
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Chapter 2 Seeing the World through Transactions | 19 |
A Techonomic Perspective of History | 29 |
A Timeline | 31 |
Chapter 4 Creating Techonomic Metrics | 45 |
Techonomics at the Turn of the TwentyFirst Century | 85 |
Chapter 5 The First Three Laws of TwentyFirstCentury Techonomics | 87 |
Chapter 6 Emerging TwentyFirst Century Techonomic Business Models | 103 |
Chapter 8 Techonomic Market Crises and Recommendations | 157 |
Chapter 9 The Techonomic Future | 183 |
Afterword | 205 |
Terminology Related to Techonomics | 209 |
Example of Process for Developing a Techonomic Metric | 217 |
Index | 219 |
Other Related Titles | 225 |
Back cover | 227 |
Chapter 7 Emerging Techonomic Trends | 133 |
Postindustrial Challenges and Techonomics Answers | 155 |
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Página 205 - But, by acting according to the dictates of our moral faculties, we necessarily pursue the most effective means for promoting the happiness of mankind, and may therefore be said in some sense, to co-operate with the Deity, and to advance as far as in our power, the plan of providence.
Página 205 - By acting according to their dictates we may be said, in some sense, to cooperate with the Deity, and to advance, as far as in our power, the plan of Providence. By acting otherwise, on the contrary, we seem to obstruct, in some measure, the scheme which the Author of Nature has established for the happiness and perfection of the world, and to declare ourselves in some measure the enemies of God.
Página 198 - free enterprise" means an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision rather than state control and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined in a free manner.
Página 88 - Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, observed in 1965 that the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits had doubled every year since the invention of integrated circuits.
Página 198 - A system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state 3.
Página 198 - an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision rather than by state control, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market," a more appropriate subtitle would have been "The Koch'ang Kims and Japanese Industrial Expansion in Colonial Korea.
Página 91 - Metcalf's law states that the "value" or "power" of a network increases in proportion to the square of the number of nodes on the network.