IS Management Handbook, Eighth Edition

Carol V Brown: Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Heikki Topi: Bentley College


List Price: $99.95
Cat. #: AU1595
ISBN: 0849315956
Publication Date: 6/26/2003
Number of Pages: 944
Availability: In Stock

Auerbach Publications

Brief...

Description

IT management and staff are called upon to perform the almost-impossible tasks of evaluating, purchasing, integrating, and maintaining complex IT systems, and directing these systems to meet the ever-changing goals of an organization. Add to that the spending restraints of a down economy, and IT managers find themselves in need of a thoughtful, real-world guide that can maximize resources and bring efficiency to often chaotic environments.

IS Management Handbook, Eighth Edition details how IT professionals can align people, information, and technology with the strategic goals of an organization. The handbook offers technical and business insight from dozens of leading names from the technology sector, with a major focus on maximizing the performance of existing resources during tough economic times.

The handbook provides the information that allows IT managers to effectively organize people and processes, and efficiently integrate and maintain infrastructure, applications, support systems, e-business tools, and databases.

Snapshot

• Explores how different management styles can be used to successfully direct staff, processes and systems toward strategic goals
• Delivers key recommendations on managing the design and operation of systems, with a focus on networking, data warehousing, and security
• Details ways to maximize success of e-business systems
• Outlines how to assess and efficiently integrate new technologies, including packaged enterprise systems, Web services, wireless access tools, peer-to-peer solutions, and more
• Provides guidelines, frameworks, checklists, and other tools for many critical topics
  

Review

Brown & topi provide very useful information for IT managers on management techniques from a number of practicing IS experts.

The comprehensive information contained within the book provide guidelines to IT professionals from various perspectives. These include

• systems analysis,
• quality assurance and control,
• systems development and
• improving productivity and services.

The value of this hard cover is way beyond that expected. We have appreciated reading and reviewing this very helpfull guide.It is well structured and will be one of the key books a Manager should have at least in his shelve. Taking time to dwelve into some parts of it are helpful when meetings come up.

Atleast you may understand what techos are gosiping about. Let them know you are not just a paper manager.

This book is filled with valuable information and approaches. A complete guide for Managers and Professionals.