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Pub. Date
2012
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1 online resource (44 p.)
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English
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"You have your iPad, now what? You could continue to use your tablet as an excellent web surfing tool. You could also use it to play one of the many, many games out on the App Store. Or, you could simply turn it over to your spouse or your kid(s) for their enjoyment. I suggest a different path, a path that will keep your iPad in your own hands, at worka |a path that will put you on a road towards increased productivity! What follows are some of the...
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Publisher
MC Press
Pub. Date
2013.
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1 online resource (112 pages)
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English
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"Written by a leading expert in the field of information governance, this title is the only book available that focuses specifically on IBM solutions and the convergence of two major trends in information management today: big data and information governance. Nontechnical in nature and geared toward business audiences responsible for the analytics of big data, the book provides a big data governance framework with three dimensions: big data types,...
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Publisher
MC Press
Pub. Date
2011.
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1 online resource (160 pages)
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English
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"Through a series of case studies from a variety of industries to show how customer experience analytics (CEA) is reshaping business, this book explores the technologies available to help businesses create a competitive advantage and real-time relationship with customers. This book provides a program based in business values that appeal to senior management and a solution architecture that utilizes the fast, intelligent, and action-packed capabilities...
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Publisher
MC Press
Pub. Date
2012.
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1 online resource (96 pages)
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English
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"Bringing a practitioner's view to big data analytics, this work examines the drivers behind big data, postulates a set of use cases, identifies sets of solution components, and recommends various implementation approaches. This work also addresses and thoroughly answers key questions on this emerging topic, including What is big data and how is it being used? How can strategic plans for big data analytics be generated? and How does big data change...
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Publisher
MC Press
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource (112 pages)
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English
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Data is becoming the world's new "natural resource," transforming industries and professions across the board. Smart, innovative organizations know that data is the new basis of gaining a competitive advantage. DB2 for z/OS remains the leading database for storing mission-critical data. This book explains how DB2 for z/OS and supporting products enable businesses to use their data to gain a competitive advantage. --Provided by publisher.
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 23 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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How can companies ensure that IT services are directed and optimized to implement critical business objectives? Wendell Jones of Cutter Consortium helps IT managers cope with what has become one of the most difficult -- yet exciting -- jobs in any organization. The program describes techniques that will help IT managers think and communicate like business executives, build relationships with key stakeholders, manage suppliers and providers, achieve...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 29 min., 48 sec.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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How has information and communications technology changed the world of commerce and industry? This wide-ranging film tells a remarkable story of our times. Impact on work: In the 1970s office work was done with typewriters and paper and correcting fluid. Computers were giant devices in air-conditioned rooms. Then in the 1980s computers got smaller and began to appear on people's desks. Whole industries and professions vanished. Simon Steele, a sub-editor...
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Pub. Date
2015
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1 online resource (xxix, 413 pages : illustrations)
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English
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Twenty years ago, The Digital Economy changed the way the world thought about the Web and Internet. While everyone else was in awe of "websites" and "dot coms," Don Tapscott was among the first people to argue that the Internet would fully transform the nature of business and government. It goes without saying that his predictions were spot on. Now, in this new edition of his classic work, the New York Times bestselling author provides topical updates...
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Publisher
Otago University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (160 pages)
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English
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Information and the technology that supports its collection, communication and analysis is a core concern of modern government, making e-government (meaning electronically enabled government) fundamental to the ongoing "reinvention" of public administration. But the quest for e-government opens up a range of issues - whether to take a "big bang" or an incremental approach to computerization, how to deal with security and privacy concerns, how to reconfigure...
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English
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"A galvanizing critique of the forces vying for our attention--and our personal information--that redefines what we think of as productivity, reconnects us with the environment, and reveals all that we've been too distracted to see about ourselves and our world Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity. doing nothing may be our most important form of resistance. So...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 33 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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This course describes the importance of IT controls and their potential benefits to the technology staff. Major topics include what controls are, why they are needed, applying controls to IT, building a control framework, and discussing critical IT control areas. After setting out goals and objectives for the participant, the first major section delves into the types, frequencies and primary functions of controls, along with their application within...
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English
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Everything in the universe, from the molecules in our bodies to the heart of a black hole, is made up of bits of information. This is the radical idea at the center of the new physics of information, and it is leading to exciting breakthroughs in a vast range of science, including the invention of a new kind of quantum computer, millions of times faster than any computer today. Acclaimed science writer Tom Siegfried offers a lively introduction to...
13) IBM Data Governance Unified Process: Driving Business Value with IBM Software and Best Practices
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Publisher
MC Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (168 pages)
Language
English
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"Anyone considering a data governance program within their organization will find an invaluable step-by-step methodology using IBM tools and best practices in this structured how-to. While many in the IT industry hold separate definitions in their minds, this authoritative manual defines data governance as the discipline of treating data as an enterprise asset. The intricate process of data governance involves the exercise of decision rights to optimize,...
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Publisher
McGraw-Hill Education
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxiii, 263 pages : illustrations)
Language
English
Description
Introducing a Powerful New Business Model for Today's IT Blogger, speaker, software executive, and bestselling author Jill Dyche has been thinking about leadership a lot lately. Having consulted with business and IT executives with Fortune 500 companies for most of her career, she has heard a common refrain: "What should we do about shadow IT?" She's decided to address the answer head-on. With the onslaught of cloud solutions, consumerization of technology,...
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Publisher
Algonquin Books
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
1 online resource (250 p.)
Language
English
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"A skeptic by nature, a writer and teacher more at home with ballpoint pens than computer programs, Dinty W. Moore wanted to find out for himself if the much-touted Internet and the electronic culture it has spawned is really going to be the Next Big Thing, or whether it's the emperor's new clothes. This is not a how-to guide, a giddy net-head's online magical mystery tour, or a binaries-in-the-sky futurist treatise. Instead, this book tells it like...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 66 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Today's modern information systems are difficult for the general business person to understand because the business work is largely managed inside a 'black box.' In this two-part program, technology writer and consultant Roger Grannis clearly explains and simplifies the inner working of modern information systems, enabling the business person to recognize the issues, ask the right questions, and have confidence in tackling IT-related problems. The...
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English
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Digital minimalists are all around us. They're the calm, happy people who can hold long conversations without furtive glances at their phones. They can get lost in a good book, a woodworking project, or a leisurely morning run. They can have fun with friends and family without the obsessive urge to document the experience. They stay informed about the news of the day, but don't feel overwhelmed by it. They don't experience "fear of missing out" because...
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Publisher
McGraw-Hill Education
Pub. Date
[2015]
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1 online resource (xvii, 203 pages : illustrations)
Language
English
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The Definitive Business Guide to Surviving and Innovating in the Digital Age The world is changing faster than ever. With the rise of new digital markets and the consequent network-ization of our environment, the phrase "The customer is always right" takes on a whole new meaning. This powerful guide from serial entrepreneur and radical innovation consultant Peter Hinssen shows you how to keep your company up to speed with your market, engage with...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, 20 min. 15 sec.) : digital, stereo., sound, color
Language
English
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Online and mobile technologies profoundly influence how we read, write, learn and work. Online behaviour follows us all through our schooling and careers. Explore skills for communicating smartly across many digital technologies, how multitasking affects learning and work and how online posts can become skeletons in a digital closet, causing school expulsions, destroying college admissions, and blowing job offers. Discover how to protect your privacy,...
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English
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The world's fastest supercomputer can perform 200,000 trillion calculations per second. It is in the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Discover this and many other exciting technological advancements in Information Technology, one of the titles in the STEM Today series.
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