The recent data controversy with Facebook highlights the tech industry as a whole was utterly unprepared for the backlash it faced as a result of its business model of selling user data to third parties. Despite the predominant role that technology plays in all of our lives, the controversy also...

This book is a critical examination of the main ideas regarding disruptive change and startups. It systematically lays out the full set of challenges and tasks one needs to master in order for existing organizations to weather severe change or make a startup successful. Ian Mitroff outlines the...

Ch 1: Threats of Imaginable and Unimaginable Proportions -- Ch 2: Beyond the Hype -- Ch 3: Pluses and Minuses -- Ch 4: Technological Messes -- Ch 5: Managing Tech -- Ch 6: The Socially Responsible Tech Company -- Ch 7: The Moral Underpinnings of Technology -- Epilogue: The Future of Technology. .

Chaparral Steel : a model systems design -- Critical arguments : the Toulmin Argumentation Schema (TAS) -- Assumptions : Strategic Assumption Surfacing and Testing (SAST) -- A critical application : the U.S. Census Bureau -- Complex messy systems -- Synthesis : putting it all together --...