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New Book Review: "Manage Your Project Portfolio"

New book review for Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects, by Johanna Rothman, The Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2009: Rothman's latest effort is all about how to create and use a project portfolio effectively. Note that while the author discusses how a collection of projects

Adopting Analytics

Although not formally released by Harvard Business Press for another week (Amazon.com indicates February 8, 2010 availability), as expected the success of "Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning" is generating interest in the "Analytics at Work: Smarter Decisions, Better Results" follow-up effort by

New Book Review: "Analytics at Work"

New book review for Analytics at Work: Smarter Decisions, Better Results, by Thomas H. Davenport, Jeanne G. Harris, and Robert Morison, Harvard Business Press, 2010: Well composed follow-up by the writers of "Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning" and Robert Morison, coauthor of "Workforce Crisis:

Past Book Review (May 13, 2007): "Competing on Analytics"

Past book review (i.e. posted prior to starting this blog) for Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning, by Thomas H. Davenport and Jeanne G. Harris, Harvard Business School Press, 2007: The recent Wall Street Journal review of this work captivated me enough for a follow-up read. Competing

New Book Review: "Don't Just Roll the Dice"

New book review for Don't Just Roll the Dice: A Usefully Short Guide to Software Pricing, by Neil Davidson, Simple Talk Publishing, 2009: This white paper sized introductory guide to software pricing is very well put together. After Davidson walks the reader through some basic concepts from economics

New Book Review: "Million Dollar Consulting"

New book review for Million Dollar Consulting: The Professional's Guide to Growing a Practice, by Alan Weiss, McGraw-Hill, 2009: In his text "Million Dollar Consulting: The Professional's Guide to Growing a Practice", Alan Weiss concentrates on providing advice to those individuals seeking to build

New Book Review: "Strategy Safari"

New book review for Strategy Safari: A Guided Tour through the Wilds of Strategic Management, by Henry Mintzberg, Bruce Ahlstrand, and Joseph Lampel, Free Press, 1998: Authors Mintzberg, Ahlstrand, and Lampel provide the oft-cited "The Blind Men and the Elephant" by John Godfrey Saxe as a backdrop to

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

Past Book Review (July 13, 2008): "The Opposable Mind"

Past book review (i.e. posted prior to starting this blog) for The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking, by Roger L. Martin, Harvard Business School Press, 2007: Copy provided by Amazon. Great topic. Essentially, Martin argues that leaders need to integrate ideas in order to succeed.

Past Book Review (May 22, 2005): "Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About"

Past book review (i.e. posted prior to starting this blog) for Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About, by Donald E. Knuth, Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes, 2003: In modern, Western, pluralistic, secular culture, it is currently still difficult for many to understand