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05 Readings
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This issue of BFM is focused on "Business Perspective on E-government": how to ensure that your organization maximizes the benefits deriving from e-government, while understanding its impact on your way of doing business.
The suggested readings listed in this section usually will not include business books, as plenty of other sources already cover that area.
Instead, we will suggest books that while seemingly irrelevant to the task, could actually give you a different perspective on the subject at hand.
For this issue, we suggest the following:
- John Rawls, A Theory of Justice, revised edition, Oxford University Press 1999, 538 pages, ISBN 0-19-825054-1
- Originally published in 1971, this book inspired for decades most of the social engineers, and it is still one of the best studies on what motivates an agreement between free and rational persons
- Franco Ferrarotti, Homo Sentiens ñ la rinascita della comunià dallo spirito della nuova musica, Liguori Editore 1995, 136 pages, ISBN 88-207-2487-1 (available only in Italian)
- The author moves from the analysis of the impact on perception and the sense of belonging produced by the way the ìnewî music is consumed by young people; as a side-effect of his analysis, he delivers an interesting framework that could be useful to design a cultural change
- Ron Robin, The Barbed-Wire College, Reeducating German Pows in the United States During World War II, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey 1995, 217 pages, ISBN 0-691-03700-0
- what happens when you try to implement a knowledge management policy without first assessing the participantsí existing culture
- John Carey (ed.), The Faber Book of Utopias, faber and faber 1999, 517 pages, ISBN 0-571-19785-X
- while the other books analyze existing attempts to build cultures, this book delivers a collectionof utopias spanning four millennia, with their descriptions, ideas, hypothesis, on how social relationships should be structured; interestingly, the selected utopias move far beyond the usual ìphilosophy digestî/CliffNotes approach
- Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter, The Light of Other Days, HarperCollins 2001, 472 pages, ISBN 0-00-648374-7
- after sampling utopias, describing an utopia: what would happen if our concepts of privacy and confidentiality were to be replaced by total transparency, as delivered by an invention that would allow to be a spectator to past events?
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2003-2005 edition