Techlash
ISBN:
978-3-03-043281-2
Auflage:
1st ed. 2020
Verlag:
Springer International Publishing
Land des Verlags:
Schweiz
Erscheinungsdatum:
18.09.2020
Reihe:
Management, Change, Strategy and Positive Leadership
Format:
Softcover
Seitenanzahl:
55
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Technology has made human lives incomparably better. Civilization as we know it would utterly collapse without it. However, if not properly managed, technology can and will be systematically abused and misuse and thereby become one of the biggest threats to humankind. This open access book applies proactive crisis management to the management of technology organizations to make them more sustainable and socially responsible for the betterment of humankind. It forecasts the unintended consequences of technology and offers methods to counteract it.
Schlagwörter
Open Access
quality control
safety and risk
Tech court
Managing tech
Wicked Messes
Information crises
Dialectical thinking
Chief Technology Officer
Theory of the unthinkable
Proactive crisis management
The socially responsible tech company
Toulmin Argumentation Framework (TAF)
Chief Officers for Crisis Management and Strategy
Office for socially responsible technology (OSRT)
Biografische Anmerkung
Ian I. Mitroff is a Senior Investigator in the Center for Catastrophic Risk Management at University of California Berkeley (USA). He is also Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern California, where he was the Harold Quinton Distinguished Professor of Business Policy at the Marshall School of Business. He is the President of the consulting firm Mitroff Crisis Management, and is regarded as one of the founders of the discipline of crisis management. He founded and directed the USC Center for Crisis Management. Known for his thinking and writing on a wide range of business and societal issues, Dr. Mitroff is the author of 37 previous books.
Rune Storesund is Executive Director of the Center for Catastrophic Risk Management at University of California Berkeley (USA). He is also President and Founder of Storesund Consulting which provides services in all aspects of civil, geotechnical, water resources, ecological, restoration, and sustainability engineeringprojects. His expertise is on the application of reliability and risk-based approaches to engineering projects in order to effectively manage uncertainties.
