Category Archives: Book Review

Review of Virtual Ops Private Cloud

Posted on May 31, 2011 by

A small book of deep insight, Virtual Ops Private Cloud tackles the why and how of moving enterprise IT from virtualization to private cloud. Private cloud—better tailored, less costly, more secure than public cloud—means automation, dynamic workload management, and a … Continue reading →

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IT Investment: Making a Business Case (A Book Review)

Posted on January 27, 2011 by

In general, I found this book disappointing. Dan Remenyi does a good job of explaining the importance of business cases and the elements that should get included within a business case, but he falls short on the harder task of … Continue reading →

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Review of Making Technology Investments Profitable

Posted on January 13, 2011 by

In their book Making Technology Investments Profitable: ROI Road Map to Better Business Cases, Jack M. Keen and Bonnie Digrius make the case for business cases, walk through the process of creating a business case, provide insights for finding and … Continue reading →

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Calculating ROI: A Review of Show Me the Money

Posted on November 21, 2010 by

I hear the term ROI often enough but rarely see it calculated. It is said that business is all about numbers– financial statements, stock prices, bonus plans–but then there are IT projects, with budgets that are clear enough (or at … Continue reading →

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Taxonomy Everywhere

Posted on August 10, 2010 by

I’ve been reading a couple of good books on taxonomy: Darin L. Stewart’s Building Enterprise Taxonomies and Patrick Lambe’s Organising Knowledge: Taxonomies, Knowledge and Organisational Effectiveness. Stewart’s book is a good introduction. Lambe’s delves deeply into the topic and has … Continue reading →

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How to Measure Anything

Posted on July 15, 2010 by

I’ve recently read and want to recommend Douglas W. Hubbard’s How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of “Intangibles” in Business (2007). The book’s central premise is that anything can be measured and that any measurement, even a very imperfect … Continue reading →

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Innovation to the Core, a Book Review

Posted on February 22, 2010 by

In Innovation to the Core, Peter Skarzynski and Rowan Gibson explain how organizations achieve ongoing innovation by building up an organization-wide, systemic innovation capability. The “to the core” of the title implies that the effort must touch every aspect of … Continue reading →

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Improving Performance, a Book Review

Posted on February 5, 2010 by

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. –John Muir I’ve recently re-read Improving Performance and thought I’d share my enthusiasm for the book. Starting with the quote above, … Continue reading →

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