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RESOURCES

• Index
• Preface
• Table of Contents

DESCRIPTION

Only a handful of Information Technology leaders understand the complete range of IT issues, from basic technology to business strategy. One of them, Harold Lorin, has written a definitive guide for the IT decision maker, the technologist, and the system developer.

The breadth and insight of Doing IT Right is unparalleled. Its usefulness as a guide to deeper understanding of business computing will be appreciated by professionals and managers at all levels. This book covers a rich collection of topics, each explained, interrelated, and placed in a coherent framework so that its importance and likely evolution are clear. The author does not shy away from stating his views; he provides color, insight and humor.

Doing IT Right is a tour de force based on Lorin's prodigious knowledge of the industry derived from years of involvement with development and marketing at IBM and other systems houses and from consulting in a variety of environments. It also has its roots in a great many publications of the author, from trade and journal articles and book chapters to six earlier books.

Doing IT Right explores IT in its full complexity. It explains fundamental issues of hardware and software structures; it illuminates central issues of networking and encapsulates the essence of client/server computing; its coverage of costing, risk assessment, and due diligence in making computing decisions is unique; its presentation of the concepts and issues of object-orientation was considered by the managers at an IBM development laboratory to be Unique and more informative than fifteen other OO presentations put together.

WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THIS BOOK...

"If you are concerned about (or even responsible for) technological change in your company this might be a good book to get, read and pass on to others, particularly those whose thinking is not rigid even though it may be conservative (management) or overly adventurous (technologists). The book has been around for more than three years but stands up well to the test of time. The details may change but the fundamentals remain (however much the technologists like to think otherwise)."
--Francis Glassborow, C Vu

"This book is unique in both scope and implementation - it is amazing how successfully Mr. Lorin has pulled it off"
--Ted Gerbracht, Vice President Operations,
Systems, and Telecommunications, Merrill Lynch

ABOUT THE AUTHOR...

Harold Lorin is a principal at the Manticore Consultancy and a Professor at Hofstra University. He has been the ranking Consultant Member of the IBM Systems Research Institute and has consulted to organizations in the United States, Europe, and AKsia. His articles have been published by MIS Quarterly, ACM SIGOPS, ACM SIGARCH, IEEE JSAC, Computers and Communications, Computerworld, and many others. He has presented at meetings of SHARE and GUIDE, as well as of the ACM, the lEEE , and at leading academic institutions including MIT and Cambridge University.

Sample Chapters

One sample chapter is available for download.