Wired for Innovation: How Information Technology Is Reshaping the Economy

Erik Brynjolfsson is Schussel Family Professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management and Director of the MIT Center for Digital Business. He is the coeditor of Understanding the Digital Economy: Data, Tools, and Research (MIT Press).

"Brynjolfsson and Saunders have written an important roadmap for future technology innovation. Anyone interested in the business and economics of information technology should read this book."--Chris Anderson, Editor in Chief, Wired Magazine, author of Free: The Future of a Radical Price "If you want to read just one book on digital economy, Wired for Innovation should be it. This easy-to-read, yet comprehensive and analytical handbook provides essential insights for understanding how and why information technology is transforming business and the economy. Anyone reading this book will come away understanding just how important and transformative the IT revolution has been, and will be in the future."--Robert D. Atkinson, President, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, author of The Past and Future of America's Economy -- Robert D. Atkinson "This is the answer CIOs have been waiting for, scientific proof of the productivity and competitive advantage gained by investments in IT."--Leo Apotheker, CEO, SAP -- Leo Apotheker "Compact and insightful, Wired for Innovation provides a synthesis of the research on econometric analyses of information and communication technologies (ICT) that bear on organizational and industrial productivity." -- Steve Sawyer, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology "If e-business had an oracle, Erik Brynjolfsson would be anointed." -- BusinessWeek "If you want to read just one book on digital economy, Wired for Innovation should be it. This easy-to-read, yet comprehensive and analytical handbook provides essential insights for understanding how and why information technology is transforming business and the economy. Anyone reading this book will come away understanding just how important and transformative the IT revolution has been, and will be in the future." Robert D. Atkinson , President, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, author of The Past and Future of America's Economy "This