Digital Revolution How Connected Digital Innovations Are Transforming Your Industry, Company & Career
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2015
/ Engelsk
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ISBN
9780134291314
Publisert
2015
Utgiver
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Pearson FT Press
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100 gr
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100 mm
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100 mm
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100 mm
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06, P
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Engelsk
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Innbundet
Antall sider
320
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Biographical note
Inder Sidhu is a Silicon Valley senior executive with a career spanning three decades in the technology industry.He has spent twenty years helping build Cisco from $1 billion to $50 billion in annual revenue, most recently as Senior Vice President of Strategy and Planning for Worldwide Operations. Inder has co-led Cisco's highly profitable $16 billion Enterprise business and its fast-growing $7 billion Emerging Countries business. Additionally, he has served as the Vice President and General Manager for Worldwide Professional Services, Vice President and General Manager for Advanced Engineering Services, and Vice President for Strategy and Business Development for Cisco Services.
In his journey, Inder has also been a consultant with McKinsey & Company, an engineer with Intel, and an entrepreneur with a successful Silicon Valley start-up.
In 2010, Inder authored The New York Times bestseller Doing Both: Capturing Today's Profit and Driving Tomorrow's Growth.
In 2013, Inder was honored to be the commencement speaker at his alma mater, the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania.
Inder channels his passion for education by guest lecturing at Harvard Business School, Stanford University, the Wharton School, and the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
He serves on the Graduate Executive Board of the Wharton School and on the Board of Directors of Goodwill of Silicon Valley.
Inder is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School and holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania. He also holds a Master's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India.
T.C. Doyle is a writer, editor, and storyteller who has covered the technology industry for more than two decades. When he's not in Silicon Valley or pursuing a story elsewhere around the globe, he can be found in Park City, Utah, where he resides with his wife and two sons.
The massive transformations driven by digital technology have begun. The Digital Revolution gives you a complete roadmap for navigating the breathtaking changes happening now and shows you how to succeed. Silicon Valley executive, thought leader, and New York Times best-selling author Inder Sidhu shows how cloud computing, social media, mobility, sensors, apps, big data analytics, and more can be brought together in virtually infinite combinations to create opportunities and pose risks previously unimaginable. You'll learn how digital pioneers are applying connected digital technologies, also known as the Internet of Everything, to dramatically improve financial performance, customer experience, and workforce engagement in fields ranging from healthcare to education, from retail to government. Sidhu combines the practical perspective of practitioners with the extensive experience of experts to show you how to win in the new digital age. He takes you behind the scenes, engaging with business leaders from Apple, Google, Facebook, Cisco, Intel, Amazon, Walmart, Starbucks, RSA, Kaiser, Cleveland Clinic, Intermountain Healthcare, and so on and with academic leaders from Stanford, Yale, Wharton, MIT, Coursera, Khan Academy, and more and reveals their winning strategies and execution tactics for your benefit. Sidhu also discusses the key challenges of privacy, security, regulation, and governance in depth and offers powerful insights on managing crucial ethical, social, cultural, legal, and economic issues that digitization creates. He shows what the digital revolution will mean for you, both personally and professionally--and how you can win. Learn how you can leverage the digital revolution to Deliver superior customer experiences Improve your organization's financial performance Drive employee productivity, creativity, and engagement Build smart, efficient cities brimming with opportunity Make education more effective and relevant Achieve better health outcomes Make retail compelling, convenient, and profitable Balance privacy with security Protect yourself before, during, and after a cyberattack Accelerate your career and live a better life
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Part I OpeningIntroduction There's Something Happening Here 1Chapter 1 The Digital Revolution: Why You Should Care 7Part II Transforming IndustriesChapter 2 Healthcare: The Patient Will See You 15Chapter 3 Education: The Learner Triumphs 43Chapter 4 Retail: Get 'Em In, Get 'Em Thru, Get 'Em Back 73Chapter 5 Smart Cities: Bustling with Activity, Brimming with Opportunity 95Part III Addressing ChallengesChapter 6 Privacy: Wait, Am I the Product? 119Chapter 7 Security: Before, During, and After an Attack 143Chapter 8 Governance: New Game in Town, Clear Rules Needed 167Part IV Transforming OrganizationsChapter 9 Financial Performance: Making Money the Old-Fashioned Way 191Chapter 10 Customer Experience: Happier Than Ever 211Chapter 11 Employee Experience: Productive, Creative, Engaged 237Part V ClosingChapter 12 The Digital Revolution: Only the Beginning, Only Just the Start 259Endnotes 265Index 297About the Authors 307
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"By 2020, 75 percent of businesses will be fully digital, yet only a few have a real digital strategy. The Digital Revolution provides powerful insights and practical examples of how to develop a digital roadmap. Countries, cities, and companies must disrupt themselves or be disrupted in this new digital world."--John Chambers, Executive Chairman, Cisco Systems"The online digital revolution is affecting all parts of our world. This timely book is filled with interesting scenarios of disruption and discusses a variety of challenges arising in the new information age. Reading it will help you understand how this revolution will affect your job, your company, and your future."--John Hennessy, President, Stanford University Board Member, Google and Cisco"The Digital Revolution is a thoughtful and creative addition to the conversation on one of the major forces shaping our world--digital disruption. Inder Sidhu explores both the challenges and opportunities arising from new technologies. He offers valuable insight into the ways in which organizations will need to adapt and change--from becoming radically transparent, to engaging connected consumers, to increasing asset utilization, to redesigning the organization, to innovating at speed."--Dominic Barton, Global Managing Director, McKinsey & Company"Inder Sidhu has his finger on the pulse of 'The Internet of Everything'--not only today's cutting edge from Tesla to Uber, but also where the digital revolution will take us. He has convinced me that the best is yet to come, indeed that we are only at the beginning of the transformative impact of digitization."--Geoffrey Garrett, Dean, The Wharton School
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The "Internet of Everything": you can't touch it or smell it, but it will transform your world. In this up-to-the-minute guide, world-renowned Cisco executive and thought leader Inder Sidhu explains how and why "IoE" will revolutionize the way businesses work and consumers live. You'll learn how the IoE is taking shape from a converging storm of innovations in mobility, social media, big data, cloud technology, apps, and sensors - making it far easier to capture and analyze data of all kinds, and use it to make important things happen. Then, Sidhu tells you exactly how to prepare now, so you'll thrive in this new world - in your business, and in your personal life, too. The Internet of Everything is the first IoE book written by a real practitioner in plain English for a general audience. It's packed with real examples of how IoE is already being used - and of the most impactful innovations already in the RandD pipeline and headed your way. You'll discover why the Internet of Everything puts $19 trillion dollars of value at stake - both in brand new opportunities, and in displacing what you're doing now. And you'll learn how to anticipate its impact on you, so you can ride this wave instead of being swamped by it. You'll learn how to use IoE to:Improve patient outcomes in the healthcare industryIncrease access to effective learning at all levels of educationMake retail shopping far more convenient and profitableBuild smarter cities that run more efficiently and brim with opportunityUse IoE to improve your organization's financial performanceDeliver happier customer experiences, no matter what industry you're inPromote employee productivity, creativity, and engagementDrawing on his deep expertise working with IoE pioneers worldwide, Sidhu also helps you navigate the complex new security, privacy, and regulatory issues it's creating. Whether you're an executive, strategist, marketer, consumer, citizen, or policy-maker, The Internet of Everything reveals a bracing new future you need to understand, right now.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780134291314
Publisert
2015
Utgiver
Vendor
Pearson FT Press
Vekt
100 gr
Høyde
100 mm
Bredde
100 mm
Dybde
100 mm
Aldersnivå
06, P
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
320
Forfatter
Biographical note
Inder Sidhu is a Silicon Valley senior executive with a career spanning three decades in the technology industry.He has spent twenty years helping build Cisco from $1 billion to $50 billion in annual revenue, most recently as Senior Vice President of Strategy and Planning for Worldwide Operations. Inder has co-led Cisco's highly profitable $16 billion Enterprise business and its fast-growing $7 billion Emerging Countries business. Additionally, he has served as the Vice President and General Manager for Worldwide Professional Services, Vice President and General Manager for Advanced Engineering Services, and Vice President for Strategy and Business Development for Cisco Services.
In his journey, Inder has also been a consultant with McKinsey & Company, an engineer with Intel, and an entrepreneur with a successful Silicon Valley start-up.
In 2010, Inder authored The New York Times bestseller Doing Both: Capturing Today's Profit and Driving Tomorrow's Growth.
In 2013, Inder was honored to be the commencement speaker at his alma mater, the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania.
Inder channels his passion for education by guest lecturing at Harvard Business School, Stanford University, the Wharton School, and the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
He serves on the Graduate Executive Board of the Wharton School and on the Board of Directors of Goodwill of Silicon Valley.
Inder is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School and holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania. He also holds a Master's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India.
T.C. Doyle is a writer, editor, and storyteller who has covered the technology industry for more than two decades. When he's not in Silicon Valley or pursuing a story elsewhere around the globe, he can be found in Park City, Utah, where he resides with his wife and two sons.