Tag: Successes

Grand Successes and Failures in IT. Public and Private Sectors IFIP WG 8.6 International Working Conference on Transfer and Di


Free Download Grand Successes and Failures in IT. Public and Private Sectors: IFIP WG 8.6 International Working Conference on Transfer and Diffusion of IT, TDIT 2013, Bangalore, India, June 27-29, 2013. Proceedings By Karlheinz Kautz, Dubravka Cecez-Kecmanovic (auth.), Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Helle Zinner Henriksen, David Wastell, Rahul De’ (eds.)
2013 | 670 Pages | ISBN: 3642388612 | PDF | 12 MB
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP WG 8.6 International Working Conference on Transfer and Diffusion of IT, TDIT 2013, held in Bangalore, India, in June 2013. The 35 revised full papers presented together with an invited paper, 12 short papers and 3 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. The full papers are organized in the following topical sections: IS success and failure; studies of IT adoption; software development; IT in the public sector; and theory and methods.

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The tower of babble sins, secrets and successes inside the CBC


Free Download The tower of babble: sins, secrets and successes inside the CBC By Canadian Broadcasting Corporation;Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. English Networks;Stursberg, Richard;Société Radio-Canada. Réseaux anglais;Société Radio-Canada;White, Trena
2012 | 341 Pages | ISBN: 1926812735 | EPUB | 1 MB
Shortly after Stursberg arrived, the corporation locked out its employees for two months. Four years later, he signed the most harmonious labour contract to date. He lost the television rights for the 2010 and 2012 Olympic Games. He won the biggest NHL contract in history. He had unprecedented ratings successes. He had terrible flops. He enjoyed the best radio, television and online ratings in CBC’s history. He fought endless wars with the CBC president and board about the direction of the corporation and ultimately was dismissed.;This is the story of our most loved and reviled cultural institution during its most convulsive and far-reaching period of change. It is for those who think the CBC has lost its way, those who love where it is, and those who think it should not exist in the first place."–Pub. desc.;"In 2004, CBC television had sunk to its lowest audience share in its history. That same year, Richard Stursberg, an avowed popularizer with a reputation for radical action, was hired to run CBC’s Television services and by 2008 his role was expanded to head of all English services: television, online and radio. With incisive wit, Stursberg tells the story of the struggle that resulted–a struggle that lasted for six turbulent and controversial years.

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