Andrew McAfee: The Machines Are Coming

April 26th, 2012 — inAll The Interviews, Using Technologyno comments


Andrew McAfee, author of “Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative Tools for Your Organization’s Toughest Challenges,” studies the ways that information technology (IT) affects businesses and business as a whole. His research investigates how IT changes the way companies perform, organize themselves, and compete. At a higher level, his work also investigates how computerization affects competition itself – the struggle among rivals for dominance and survival within an industry.

He coined the phrase “Enterprise 2.0″ in a spring 2006 Sloan Management Review article to describe the use of Web 2.0 tools and approaches by businesses. He also began blogging at that time, both about Enterprise 2.0 and about his other research. McAfee’s blog is widely read, becoming at times one of the 10,000 most popular in the world (according to Technorati). His Twitter identity is @amcafee

 
 

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