Books Slideshow:
Top 10 Business-Tech Books of 2008

• The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google
  By Nicholas Carr
  The controversial author and IT pundit argues that innovations like cloud computing will leave IT stuck in utility mode forever.
• Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies
  By Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff
  Two Forrester analysts pose crucial questions to help IT leaders decide which social technologies can work for their organizations.
• Billion Dollar Lessons: What You Can Learn From the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Years
  By Paul B. Carroll and Chunka Mui
  A journalist and a former consultant investigate the root of project failure, with a spotlight on one particular IT SNAFU.
• The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
  By Alice Schroeder
  A former Wall Streeter takes a deep look into the lifestyle and workstyle of the Oracle of Omaha.
• The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage
  By Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton
  The Balanced Scorecard authors investigate why aligning IT with business strategy—a top CIO priority for years—has been so difficult to achieve.
• A Sense of Urgency
  By John P. Kotter
  The Harvard professor, consultant and author of Leading Change outlines the tactics businesses need to overcome complacency.
• Globality: Competing With Everyone From Everywhere for Everything
  By Harold Sirkin, James W. Hemerling and Arindam K. Bhattacharya
  Three Boston Consulting Group consultants describe the latest shift in globalization, where former third-world nations are spawning global competitors.
• Innovation to the Core: A Blueprint for Transforming the Way Your Company Innovates
  By Peter Skarzynski and Rowan Gibson
  The duo of business strategy experts offers a fresh, inclusive strategy to boosting corporate innovation.
• Outsmart! How to Do What Your Competitors Can’t
  By James Champy
  The groundbreaking author and consultant chronicles the success of companies that reengineered their business models to transform both their organizations and their industries.
• Mastering the Hype Cycle: How to Choose the Right Innovation at the Right Time
  By Jackie Fenn and Mark Raskino
  Two Gartner fellows explain ways businesses can capitalize on innovation without getting caught up in the usual hype surrounding emerging technologies.