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New Book Review: "Information Systems Transformation"

New book review for Information Systems Transformation: Architecture-Driven Modernization Case Studies, by William M. Ulrich and Philip Newcomb, Morgan Kaufman, 2010: Copy provided by Amazon. Since the marketplace is largely absent of texts discussing the modernization of software systems architecture, this reviewer did not know what to expect from authors

New Book Review: "Making EIM Work for Business"

New book review for Making Enterprise Information Management (EIM) Work for Business: A Guide to Understanding Information as an Asset, by John Ladley, Morgan Kaufmann, 2010: Copy provided by Amazon. John Ladley indicates at the outset that the necessity of this text is threefold: (1) because the reader is already

New Book Review: "Buy-In"

New book review for Buy-In: Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down, by John P. Kotter and Lorne A. Whitehead, Harvard Business Review Press, 2010: Copy provided by Amazon. In their preface to this book, authors Kotter and Whitehead succinctly present the challenge of implementing good ideas. The amount

New Book Review: "Employees First, Customers Second"

New book review for Employees First, Customers Second: Turning Conventional Management Upside Down, by Vineet Nayar, Harvard Business Press, 2010: Copy provided by Amazon. Putting employees first is an idea with which most are probably already familiar, the idea that putting employees first will bring benefits to customers. Putting customers

New Book Review: "Under Control"

New book review for Under Control: Governance Across the Enterprise (CA Press), by Jacob Lamm, Sumner Blount, Steve Boston, Marc Camm, Robert Cirabisi, Nancy E. Cooper, Galina Datskovsky, Christopher Fox, Kenneth V. Handal, William E. McCracken, John Meyer, Helge Scheil, Alan Srulowitz, and Robert Zanella, Apress, 2010: Copy provided by

New Book Review: "The Integration Imperative"

New book review for The Integration Imperative: Erasing Marketing and Business Development Silos - Once and for All - in Professional Service Firms, by Suzanne C. Lowe, Professional Services Books, 2009: Copy provided by publicist Andrea Harris. Author Suzanne C. Lowe writes that many professional service firms exist in a

New Book Review: "Leadership Beyond Reason"

New book review for Leadership Beyond Reason: How Great Leaders Succeed by Harnessing the Power of Their Values, Feelings, and Intuition, by Dr. John Townsend, Thomas Nelson, 2009: Copy provided by Amazon. Townsend explains quite plainly in his introduction that "great leaders succeed by harnessing the power of both

New Book Review: "Leading the Charge"

New book review for Leading the Charge: Leadership Lessons from the Battlefield to the Boardroom, by General Tony Zinni and Tony Koltz, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009: Copy provided by Amazon. The authors walk the reader through, provide insights to, and discuss possible solutions to some of the many pressing leadership challenges

New Book Review: "Rethink"

New book review for Rethink: A Business Manifesto for Cutting Costs and Boosting Innovation, by Ric Merrifield, FT (Financial Times) Press, 2009: Copy provided by Amazon. If there is one overall motif or theme for this book by Ric Merrifield, it is a constant attempt to focus on the "