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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 004
EAN num: 9780470095218
ISBN number: 0470095210
Label: Wiley
Manufacturer: Wiley
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Page Count: 672
Printing Date: March 23, 2007
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Praise for the The Executive's Guide to Information Technology
'This book is important reading. It offers practical, real-world insight and pragmatic no-nonsense approaches for people who have a stake in corporate IT. '
--Lynda Applegate, Henry R. Byers Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
'Information systems and processes are very important parts of our due diligence assessment of a company--yet the jargon is often more difficult to understand than many foreign languages. Baschab and Piot effectively translate IT into words and concepts that businesspeople can easily understand and act upon. This book is a helpful reference guide for corporate executives and private equity groups of all types.'
--Neal Aronson, Managing Partner, Roark Capital Group
'Business sucess increasingly depends on effective use of IT. Effective use of IT depends on the kind of in-depth, practical insight in this book. Baschab and Piot provide a pragmatic approach to information systems investment that should be required reading for senior executives and CIOs alike.'
--Erik Brynjolfsson, Schussel Professor of Management, Director of the Center for Digital Business, MIT
'This book should provide valuable guidance for management and technology consultants. The Executive's Guide to Information Technology provides field-proven insight on all important aspects of IT planning and execution, from governance to applications to operations and infrastructure.'
--Gary J. Fernandes, former vice chairman, EDS, member of the Board of Directors, Computer Associates
'Baschab and Piot do a great job of laying out the fundamental issues and challenges that every IT organization faces. More often than not, the issues are not technical in nature, but are a reflection of how the IT and business teams work together to define, execute, and implement new business tools. The threshold issue is leadership. Often it is difficult for business leaders to feel that they have the skills and perspective to provide that leadership on technical projects. The Executive's Guide to Information Technology provides non-technical business leaders a solid framework for engaging with their IT peers.'
--Tom Nealon, Chief Information Officer, J.C. Penney
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This is one of the best books about how to run an IT department, and it's so useful and straight-forward that I'd recommended it to any middle-tier-manager who is looking for a real world IT framework.
However, I have some complaints about this second edition:
- The paper quality is really awful.... I'm afraid about highlight it, because it seems it will tear-apart. What it is the issue with pages of white color? It is really disappointing paying almost USD 100 for a book (including international shipping) and receive a so ugly product.
- There are some topics recently included in this new edition which seems copy-and-pasted from wiki. For instance: Extreme programming, or development methodologies: they are not really correlated with the chapter's content and you feel that they were included just to give a sense of up-to-date but not really comprehended by the authors.
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Few people know that I was responsible for developing the original advanced information technology applications in pilot (artificial intelligence, expert systems, natural language understanding, smart maps with a memory of operational history, etcetera) for the CIA, and served on both the Advanced Information Processing and Analysis Steering Group and on the Information Handing Committee, both national level secret bodies. I also stood up the USMC Intelligence Center (yesterday a Command) and wasted $20 million on the wrong high-end "stuff" while neglecting acess to external content.
This book has an identity problem. On the one hand, it claims to be a guide for executives (who: CEO, corporate vice presidents, division chiefs?), and on the other, it provides an enormous amount of detail about managing the information technology investment and operations--information I would expect my CTO to have firmly in hand before he or she ever got hired.
This book (second edition published in 2007) also fails to mention:
Analytics or analytic tradecraft
Anomaly detection
Cloud computing
Data mining
External sources
Knowledge management
Pattern analysis
Semantic web
Social networks
Warning
Web 2.0 (or 3.0 or 4.0)
Return on Investment (RoI) is defined on page xvi and not mentioned again, at least according to the index, which is where I decide whether a large volume is worth my time. This index--this book--failed that test.
Decision making gets one reference (page 525), decision trees get two pages (310, 467).
Business intelligence and competitive intelligence do not appear in this book (according to the index).
Risk management focuses on management of the IT investment risk, not on risk management of every aspect of the organization from personnel to facilities to production to inventory to supplier vetting and so on.
Bottom line: this is a university primer for kids hoping to one day be a Chief Technology Officer. It is NOT a guide for executives. It is a summary of what the top three CTO folks should have in their DNA from day one (which is often not the case).
I am guided in my crankiness by Peter Drucker, who wrote in Forbes ASAP of 28 August 1998, that we have spent the last fifty years focusing on the T in IT, and now need to spend the subsequent 50 years focusing on the I in IT. Generally, IT provides both a *negative* return on investment, and does nothing to create, nurture, and exploit "organizational intelligence." Enough said.
Other books that I prefer to this one:
The Politics of Information Management: Policy Guidelines
The Business Value of Computers - An Executive's Guide (Information Technology Findings and Recommendations)
Information Payoff: The Transformation of Work in the Electronic Age
Building a Knowledge-Driven Organization
The Knowledge Executive
The exemplar: The exemplary performer in the age of productivity
Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration
The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
Organizational Intelligence (Knowledge and Policy in Government and Industry)
One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization
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This book helps form IT users to IT services providers, CIO, CFO and CEO to understand the scope of IT process inside an organization, describing precisely relationships and responsibilities for all. A book which should be read by any manager related with IT and bussiness.
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This is a "best book" for Executives and Managers responsible for IT management related decisions and practices. Therefore I rank it with "6"! stars. Peter de Toma, Austria, Europe.
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I personally learned a million from reading and enjoying a well written practical handbook, I recommend all IT folks to keep a copy of the "The Executive Guide To IT" book handy in their workplaces as it covers the major areas that any IT, IT business partner and senior management personnel.
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