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One hundred years ago, the company that would become IBM took its first steps into an unknown future. In Making the World Work Better: The Ideas That Shaped a Century and a Company , journalists Kevin Maney, Steve Hamm and Jeffrey M. O'Brien tell a story of progress that illuminates, and transcends, the rich history of a single enterprise.
Through extensive research, they explore IBM's impact on technology, on the evolving role of the modern corporation and on the way our world literally works. Most intriguingly, they uncover a set of compelling ideas whose greatest impact may lie not in the previous century, but in the next one-ideas with the power to shape a surprising future, and to change the way we think.
List of contents
Foreword: Of Change and Progress Chapter 1 Pioneering the Science of Information Chapter 2 Reinventing the Modern Corporation Chapter 3 Making the World Work Better Acknowledgements About the Authors Endnotes
About the author
KEVIN MANEY is a nationally syndicated, award-winning USA Today technology columnist. He was voted best technology columnist by the business journalism publication TJFR. Marketing Computers magazine has, four times, named him one of the most influential technology columnists. He is also the author of the BusinessWeek bestseller Megamedia Shakeout, from Wiley-VCH . Maney lives in Clifton, Virginia, with his wife and two children.§
