TY - BOOK AU - Corniou,Jean-Pierre TI - Looking back and going forward in IT T2 - ISTE SN - 9781847046086 AV - T58.5 .C684 2006eb U1 - 004.09 22 PY - 2006/// CY - London, Newport Beach, Calif. PB - ISTE KW - Information technology KW - History KW - Management information systems KW - Social aspects KW - Management Information Systems KW - Technologie de l'information KW - Histoire KW - Syst�emes d'information de gestion KW - Aspect social KW - COMPUTERS KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Informationstechnik KW - gnd KW - Managementinformationssystem N1 - Title from title screen; Originally published as: La soci�et�e de la connaissance : nouvel enjeu pour les organisations. France : Hermes Science/Lavoisier, 2002; Includes bibliographical references; Preliminaries; Table of Contents; Introduction All Set for an E journey; Chapter 1. The First Information Revolution; Chapter 2. From Electromechanics to Electronics; Chapter 3. The Dawn of the Digital Era; Chapter 4. Light and Shade in the Digital World; Chapter 5. The Promise and Reality of New Technology; Chapter 6. IT Policies in Efficient Enterprises; Chapter 7. New Instructions for CIOs; Chapter 8. New Vision(s)?; Conclusion; References and Bibliography; Acknowledgements N2 - Information technology now possesses an all-pervading influence in society: all areas of the social and corporate worlds use IT. However, despite its integral importance in society today, its development and future is often overlooked. This book places IT in perspective by tracing its development through time, covering its origins in business, the massive expansion of the role of IT at the end of the 20th century, the growth of the internet, and the successes and failures of companies involved in this development. Despite its ubiquity in the modern world, the author highlights that efficient us UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470612170 ER -