by Mark P. McDonald | July 15, 2011 | 1 Comment
Hunter and Westerman’s book came out before we started blogging. The Real Value of IT is one of the books that should be part of the CIO and IT leadership team’s tools. Here is the original review that can also be found at Amazon.com What is the business value of IT? This is a perennial [...]
Category: Book Review IT Governance Management Strategic planning Strategy Tags: Book Review, Business Management, Tools, Value of IT
by Mark P. McDonald | June 17, 2011 | Submit a Comment
Being the boss: The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader A powerful resource for every manager and a critical resource for every new manager — 5 stars. When I was coming up the ranks we all observed that whenever someone on our team was promoted into management, they changed. At the time we used [...]
Category: Book Review Leadership Management Tags: Book Review, IT Leadership, IT management, Management
by Mark P. McDonald | June 10, 2011 | 1 Comment
A Director’s tour of the fantasy factory – five stars. Dr. Frank Moss’s book The Sorcerers and their Apprentices is an engaging and illustrative tour of the recent innovations coming out of the MIT Media lab. Each chapter highlights a project and specific lab covering everything from robots to emotion recognition systems to foldable cars, [...]
Category: Book Review Innovation Technology Tags: Book Review, Technology, Technology Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | June 3, 2011 | Submit a Comment
Idea Man is a Paul Allen’s first person account of his life, his work in inventing the modern computing industry and his current interests outside of technology. The book is comprehensive covering what happened in his life to date without providing much in the way of what it was like to be there when it [...]
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by Mark P. McDonald | May 26, 2011 | Submit a Comment
Donald Sull’s Why Good Companies Go Bad And How Great Managers Remake Themrepresents a clear and actionable examination of the core of successful business – the making, managing and delivering commitments. The idea of commitment what they are, how they are made, how they work and how they can be used to transform the enterprise. [...]
Category: Book Review Management Tags: Book Review, Management, Tools
by Mark P. McDonald | May 20, 2011 | 2 Comments
Obliquity by John Kay refutes the idea that complex systems can be understood in enough detail to be actively managed no matter what the experts say. John Kay’s point concentrates on the folly of control and the hubris of those who believe that they can directly architect, direct and dictate changes to achieve their goals. [...]
Category: Book Review Management Strategy Tags: Book Review, Business Management, Strategy and Planning, Tools
by Mark P. McDonald | May 13, 2011 | Submit a Comment
The Open Innovation Marketplace is the book for people who want to really understand how open innovation works and what it means for organizations. Innovation is a topic that lends itself to overpromising, over simplification and over reliance on advice that says – just do it right. Bingham and Spradlin, founders at InnoCentive, give you [...]
Category: Book Review Innovation Leadership Tags: Book Review, Innovation
by Mark P. McDonald | April 15, 2011 | 1 Comment
We all have to give presentations; most of which are part of our day to day responsibilities. A sales presentation, status report, talking with your team, making an internal proposal all represent presentations that we have to make that have an impact on our lives and caresses. Joey Asher’s book “15 minutes including Q&A” provides [...]
Category: Book Review Tools Tags: Book Review, Tools
by Mark P. McDonald | April 1, 2011 | 1 Comment
Seth Godin is an author who can take a simple idea that we all intuitively understand and transform it into a fresh call for action. Poke the Box is just such a book and something that is well worth the read. The book is an explanation and celebration of people who get things started — [...]
Category: Book Review Change on the cheap CIO Innovation Management Tags: Book Review, Innovation, Leadership
by Mark P. McDonald | March 25, 2011 | 2 Comments
Disruption is an essential part of your global economy and in fact a theme for this year’s CIO Leadership Forums in Phoenix and London. So the topic is on the mind of many executives and managers. There are many books that say you need to ‘disrupt’ your business to remain competitive. There are almost no [...]
Category: Book Review Re-imagine IT Strategic planning Strategy Tags: 2011 Planning, Book Review, Business Strategy, RE-imagine IT, Strategy, Strategy and Planning
