Keep the joint running
Subtitle: a manifesto for 21st century information technology
By: by
Publisher: IS Survivor Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Eden Prairie, Minn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9780974935430
Subjects: Management; Information technology; Information resources management
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Frank Hayes; title: Section 1. Conceptual underpinnings. There are no best practices, only practices that fit best; title: To optimize the whole you must sub-optimize the parts; title: Bad metrics are worse than no metrics; title: Section 2. Putting process in its place. Relationships precede process; title: Relationships outlive transactions; title: Don't confuse documentation with reality; title: Section 3. The nature of the enterprise. Before you can be strategic you have to be competent; title: Big solutions that work start as small solutions that work; title: Customers are external, internal customers aren't; title: Don't run IT as a business, run it in a businesslike way; title: There are no IT projects; title: Section 4. Being smart, and something important to be smart about. Digest with intestines, think with brain; title: Every employee is irreplaceable.