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  title info:
    title: Enabling Enterprise Transformation
    sub title: Business and Grassroots Innovation for the Knowledge Economy
  name:
    name part: Hanna, Nagy K.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: X, 314 p. 11 illus. online resource.
  abstract: Private enterprises in advanced economies have been learning to use information and communication technology (ICT) to innovate and transform their processes, products, services and business models, significantly improving productivity and competitiveness. Moreover, the ICT industry itself has become a major source of job creation and a contributor to economic growth and business transformation. A key question today is whether and how developing countries can learn to benefit from the ICT revolution, and what roles the government and private sector can play. Already, a number of developing countries have been inspired by the example of India and China, and are now seeking to jump on the outsourcing bandwagon. Nevertheless, with few exceptions in the developing world, little attention has been paid by policymakers and practitioners to invest systematically and proactively in ICT-enabled growth, poverty reduction and grassroots innovation. Most communities and small and medium-sized enterprises in developing countries, for example, face multiple constraints to adopting and leveraging this general purpose technology, and lack the capabilities for maximizing its potential. In Enabling Enterprise Transformation, Nagy Hanna draws on his rich experience of over 35 years at the World Bank and other aid agencies as a development strategist and ICT policy expert, the most current research, and best practices from around the world to provide practical tools for promoting economic and social transformation through ICT. He assesses various initiatives to develop and diffuse ICT, such as innovation funds, incubators, parks, public-private partnerships, and comprehensive promotion programs. He argues for the strategic options now open for developing countries to participate in ICT production, to deploy ICT to transform industries and services, and to leverage ICT as a new national infrastructure for improving the business environment and enhancing the competitiveness of the whole e…
  table of contents: An ICT-Enabled Innovation and Enterprise Transformation -- Implications of the ICT Revolution for Business -- Strategic Options for Private Sector Development -- Transforming Enterprises: Innovation, Networking and Diffusion -- Transforming Business Environment -- ICT Services Industry for an Innovation Economy -- Developing the ICT Industry Ecosystem -- Telecenter Enterprises and Grassroots Innovation -- A Holistic Framework for Enterprise and Social Transformation -- Lessons and Conclusions.
  note: by Nagy K. Hanna.
  subject:
    topic: Entrepreneurship
  subject:
    topic: Organization
  subject:
    topic: Planning
  subject:
    topic: Economic growth
  subject:
    topic: Economics
  subject:
    topic: Economic Growth
  subject:
    topic: Entrepreneurship
  subject:
    topic: Organization
  classification: HD72-88
  classification: 338.9
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management
  identifier: 9781441915085
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1508-5
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204155751.0
    record identifier: 978-1-4419-1508-5