Organizational and Technological Implications of Cognitive Machines : Designing Future Information Management Systems

Organizational cognition concerns the processes which provide agents and organizations with the ability to learn, make decisions, and solve problems. 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.

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.