Description:
Dive into a future of work where technology empowers everyone to be a creator and builder with All Hands on Tech. This pivotal book offers a comprehensive look into the role of citizen developers--business domain experts who are driving IT-enabled innovation using technology previously reserved for professional technologists. Through case studies of citizens and citizen-enabled enterprises, the authors demonstrate how emerging technology bestows unprecedented power on these individuals and unprecedented value on the organizations that channel their efforts. They outline a transformative approach to citizen development that not only enhances companies' innovative capacity via the empowerment of domain experts, but also minimizes risk and liberates IT departments to pursue more strategic initiatives.
All Hands on Tech describes a revolution in work--powered by technology becoming more human and humans becoming more comfortable with technology. This convergence provides a clear pathway for enterprises to leverage the experience and insight of all employees. The authors provide diverse examples of companies that have aligned the work of their citizen developers with wider organizational goals across citizen data science, automation, and development projects. These examples demonstrate why and how to commit to the citizen revolution in your organization.
Brief description: Thomas H. Davenport is the president's Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College, a fellow of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, and a senior adviser to Deloitte's Chief Data and Analytics Officer Program. In 2024-25, he served as the Bodily Bicentennial Professor of Analytics at the UVA Darden School of Business. He pioneered the concept of "competing on analytics" with his 2006 Harvard Business Review article and his bestselling 2007 book by the same name. He has published twenty-five books and over 300 articles for Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, and many other publications. His books include All Hands on Tech: The AI-Powered Citizen Revolution, coauthored with Ian Barkin. He writes columns for Forbes, MIT Sloan Management Review, and the Wall Street Journal. He has been named one of the world's "Top 25 Consultants" by Consulting Magazine, one of the top three business/technology analysts in the world by Optimize magazine, one of the hundred most influential people in the IT industry by Ziff Davis, and one of the world's top fifty business school professors by Fortune magazine. He has also been a LinkedIn Top Voice for both the education and tech sectors.
Review Quotes:
"My research and consulting suggests that democratization of IT development is a powerful tool to help companies digitize their operations. This book is a great addition to the sparse literature on the citizen development topic."
--Marco Iansiti, professor, Harvard Business School, founder of Keystone.AI, and author of Competing in the Age of AI