Mapping information technology

Futures

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 903-917

  Houghton, John W ^a   Pucar, Michael ^a   Knox, Catherine ^a  

^a Bur of Transp and Commun Econ   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL TRENDS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE;

EID: 0030409816     PISSN: 00163287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-3287(96)00057-2     Document Type: Article

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14. This view was broadened to embrace IT usage in related work. See, for example, a summary of this work in Miles, I, Measuring the future: Statistics and the information age. Futures, 1991, 23 (9), 915-934.
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30. Ibid., p. 4.
31. Ibid., p. 5.
32. It is a map of the building blocks, rather than how they are put into place and used. It is to that extent complementary to such maps as that described in Batty, M and Barr, B, The electronic frontier: exploring and mapping cyberspace. Futures, 1994, 26 (7), pp. 699-712.
33. McLaughlin, JF and Antonoff, AL, Mapping the Information Business. Harvard University Program on Information Resources Policy P-86-9, Cambridge, MA, September 1986, pp. 4-5.
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37. An artefact of classification.
38. This article is derived from the report Houghton, JW, Pucar, M and Knox, C, Mapping the Information Industries. Productivity Commission Staff Information Paper, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1996. This presents a full description of the development of the IT map and a number of worked examples of potential applications.