A Choice Fulfilled: The Business of High Technology
By Charles K. Kao
內容簡介
This book is a well combined and connected series of essays on the roles of research, development, engineering, production and marketing of future high-technology industries. Professor Kao presents a product-centered model for business success in the creation of new markets. He argues that technology offers mankind an over-abundance of choices and opportunities, thus altering fundamental decision-making processes in high-technology businesses.
The author first traces the unique development of key technologies for our information age. Transistors, ICs and optoelectronic devices are described as responsible for revolutionizing our ability to collect, store, process and transport information. He then discusses the need and the emergence of an information-service industry. Later chapters of the book demonstrate the importance of new working relationships and, in particular, new common understanding between scientists, engineers, managers and entrepreneurs. They operate in a highly competitive environment in which market-tailoring must be the major factor that governs the entire time-table of development, production and distribution of the product. The final chapters of the book point out that science and technology offer mankind great opportunities for using and sharing the world's resources to provide for the material needs and desires of people all over the world.
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譯／編／作者簡介
Charles K. Kao was trained as an electrical engineer at the University of London. Before joining The Chinese University of Hong Kong as its Vice-Chancellor in 1987, he spent about thirty years with ITT Corporation in various locations, beginning as a junior engineer at Standard Telephones & Cables in U.K. and leaving as the Director of Research at the ITT Advanced Technology Centre in U.S.A. During those years he worked in the areas of research, development and production. His pioneering work and the many contributions to the field of fiber optics has won him prestigious awards worldwide. He is widely known as the "Father of Fiber Optics.".
Among the numerous awards given to Professor Kao are the Marconi International Fellowship in 1985, the Faraday Medal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers of U.K., the Alexander Graham Bell Medal of the Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers of U.S.A., the Ericsson International Medal of Sweden, and the C & C Prize of Japan. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineers U.S.A. and a Foreign Member of the Royal Academy of Engineers Sweden (IVA). Among his many writings are two technical books: Optical Fiber Systems: Technology, Design and Applications (1982) and Optical Fibre (1988).
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