Organizational and Technological Implications of Cognitive Machines: Designing Future Information Management Systems presents new challenges and perspectives to the understanding of the participation of cognitive machines in organizations. Containing extensive research by an international collaboration of experts, this book addresses the possible implications of cognitive machines for current and future organizations.

Coverage:

The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

Cognitive machine framework
Cognitive machines
Cognitive network of organizations
Computational organization management networks
Information processing theory
Methodology of organization design
Nature theory of organizations
Organization and the environment
Organizational cognition
Strategies of organization design

Reviews & Statements

"This work masterfully synthesizes the extensive literature on this extremely interdisciplinary, complex, often fragmented topic. The book is enlivened by examples from all over the globe and from a worldwide industry; it serves as a comprehensive reference for academics as well as for managers who are envisaging future organizational and technological trends".

– Dr R Harris, Associate Director, The Institute of Innovation and Enterprise, Wolverhampton Business School, UK

A unique and well researched contribution to our understanding of the role of cognitive machines in organisational development. A text that will feature in both undergraduate and postgraduate courses in business, engineering and computer science.

– Professor Graham Hooley, Deputy Vice Chancellor at Aston University, UK

Excellent new work on the role of Artificial Intelligence/Cognitive Machines in organisational development brought to life with interesting real world examples. Highly recommended.

– Professor David Bailey, Director of Birmingham Business School / University of Birmingham, UK

I can say unequivocally that this book is one of the best structured, comprehensive and most important, readable text available today in the fast emerging science of artificial intelligence and cognitive machines and the potential for understanding organisational change.

– Professor Graham Beaver, Brighton Business School, UK

In the knowledge society we live in today, the continuous creation of knowledge is the only way for an organization to survive. The book concisely and precisely explains how an organization can keep innovating within and across the organizational and technological boundaries, and how such innovation affects the organization and society. With many examples it is easy to read and understand. Excellent and a must-read for anyone who wants to learn about organizational change.

– Professor Christopher Prince, Executive Dean, Birmingham City University / Business School, UK

Credit should be conferred upon the authors for their rigorous approach and ability to convey the concepts so effectively and I would consider this work as a bible for the academic market segments as well as the practitioner market.

– Dr Mayson Shanti, Chairman, Chase-Law Group, Oxford, Dubai and New York

This book is about organizations, cognitive machines and the environment. It is concerned with the relations between them. It relies on the premise that the technology of cognitive machines can improve the cognitive abilities of the organization; it also relies on the proposition that an increase in organizational cognition reduces the relative levels of uncertainty and complexity of the environment with which the organization relates.

– Farley Simon Nobre, Innovation Technology Enterprise, Brazil

This book combines engineering and business knowledge to look at organizations, cognitive machines, the environment, and most especially the relationship between them.

– Book News Inc. (February 2009)

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Editor/Author Biographies

Dr Farley Nobre - Founder and Director CEO of Innovation Technology Enterprise in Brazil. PhD by The University of Birmingham UK (2001-2005) with research experience in the fields of organizations, information management systems, and artificial intelligence; - Guest researcher with the Institute of Organization Theory and the Artificial Intelligence Research Group of the Humboldt University of Berlin (2002-2003), where he also participated in the Socionics Project; - In the industry (NEC,1997-2000), he worked on software process improvement, project management and software development for telecommunication management networks. He participated in the implementation of The Capability Maturity Model in NEC of Brazil where he was awarded in 1998 with the Industrial Honor Prize for his contributions in the areas of Productivity and Quality.

Dr Andrew Tobias - Senior Lecturer in Operations Management at the University of Birmingham in the U.K. His early work involved providing systems engineering support to business development task forces within Lucas Industries, and later relocating and restructuring solenoid manufacture into Magneti Marelli. He moved to Birmingham in 1988 to work in management systems, organizational dynamics and corporate strategy. More recently he joined the Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education to specialize in network capacity. To date, Dr Tobias has over 50 publications to his name, several being in co-authorship with David Walker and two having attracted international conference prizes.

David Walker - Senior Teaching Fellow at the Business School of the University of Birmingham UK, where he has taught since 1995. Previous to this he was Professor of Marketing, Head of the Marketing Department and Director of Business Research at Wolverhampton Business School. He commenced his academic career at Aston Business School where he completed his doctorate in marketing as a Foundation for Management Education Research Fellow. He has throughout his professional life founded and managed several extensive companies in the industrial cleaning and chemical industries, besides current appointments as an external examiner at the Chartered Institute of Marketing, Southampton Business School, Westminster Business School, Northampton Business School and Brighton Business School. He has published extensively in numerous business and management journals both individually and in co-authorship with Dr. Andrew Tobias over many years.

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