http://www.cioinsight.com Past Reviews - RSS Feeds en-us Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:16:22 -0400 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:16:22 -0400 Mon, 06 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Past-Reviews/Free-the-CFO/?kc=rss - Reinventing the CFO: How Financial Managers Can Transform Their Roles and Add Greater Value By Jeremy Hope Harvard Business School Press, March 2006 272 pages, $29.95 This book seems to be aimed at the finance department. So why should IT professionals pay attention to it? Two reasons: ...]]> http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Past-Reviews/Free-the-CFO/?kc=rss Mon, 05 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Past-Reviews/ThreeLegged-Race-A-HowTo-on-Delivering-Effective-IT/?kc=rss - Winning the 3-Legged Race: When Business and Technology Run Together By Faisal Hoque, V. Sambamurthy, Robert Zmud, Tom Trainer and Carl Wilson Prentice Hall, Dec. 2005 256 PAGES, $27.99 If there is one thing the best CIOs have learned, it's this: Managing technology is as important as the te...]]> http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Past-Reviews/ThreeLegged-Race-A-HowTo-on-Delivering-Effective-IT/?kc=rss Tue, 05 Jul 2005 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Past-Reviews/ATT-Death-From-a-Thousand-Cuts/?kc=rss - End of the Line: The Rise and Fall of AT T By Leslie Cauley Free Press, August 2005 320 pages, $26 Every generation or so we relearn this lesson: Technology isn't a strategy. It doesn't matter if we are discussing mainframes in the 1960s, personal computers in the 1980s or the Internet...]]> http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Past-Reviews/ATT-Death-From-a-Thousand-Cuts/?kc=rss Sun, 05 Jun 2005 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Past-Reviews/The-Man-Behind-the-Microchip-Robert-Noyce-and-the-Invention-of-Silicon-Valley/?kc=rss - The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley By Leslie Berlin Oxford University Press, June 2005 416 pages, $30 Before Intel and Google, before Microsoft and dot-coms . . . and stock-option millionaires . . . and billionaire venture capitalists, there wa...]]> http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Past-Reviews/The-Man-Behind-the-Microchip-Robert-Noyce-and-the-Invention-of-Silicon-Valley/?kc=rss Sat, 05 Feb 2005 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Past-Reviews/Is-This-Human-Being-Necessary/?kc=rss - Best Face Forward: Why Companies Must Improve Their Service Interfaces With Customers By Jeffrey F. Rayport and Bernard J. Jaworski Harvard Business School Press, December 2004 272 pages, $29.95 The change has been so gradual, yet so pervasive a vending machine selling movie tickets here, co...]]> http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Past-Reviews/Is-This-Human-Being-Necessary/?kc=rss Wed, 05 Jan 2005 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Past-Reviews/How-to-Just-Do-It/?kc=rss - It's Not What You Say . . . It's What You Do: How Following Through at Every Level Can Make or Break Your Company By Laurence Haughton Doubleday/Currency, December 2004 256 pages, $24.95 What's the first lesson a new manager learns the hard way? Just because you tell someone to do something ...]]> http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Past-Reviews/How-to-Just-Do-It/?kc=rss Mon, 01 Nov 2004 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Past-Reviews/You-Must-Remember-This/?kc=rss - Deep Smarts: How to Cultivate and Transfer Enduring Business Wisdom By Dorothy Leonard and Walter Swap Harvard Business School Press, November 2004 304 pages, $29.95 True or false: The chief information officer is the person in charge of the company's current data. If you answered true, ...]]> http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Past-Reviews/You-Must-Remember-This/?kc=rss Fri, 01 Oct 2004 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Past-Reviews/Book-Review-Can-Studying-Bad-Leadership-Be-Good/?kc=rss - Bad Leadership: What It Is, How It Happens, Why It Matters By Barbara Kellerman Harvard Business School Press, Aug. 2004 256 pages, $26.95 The Allure of Toxic Leaders: Why We Follow Destructive Bosses and Corrupt Politicians and How We Can Survive Them By Jean Lipman-Blumen Oxford Univ...]]> http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Past-Reviews/Book-Review-Can-Studying-Bad-Leadership-Be-Good/?kc=rss Wed, 01 Sep 2004 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Past-Reviews/Review-Juice151The-Creative-Fuel-that-Drives-WorldClass-Inventors/?kc=rss - Juice: The Creative Fuel that Drives World-Class Inventors By Evan I. Schwartz Harvard Business School Press August 2004 224 pages $24.95 Forget the terrible title (it refers obliquely to the electrical current generated when we think). Ignore the lackluster examples (do we really need to hear...]]> http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Past-Reviews/Review-Juice151The-Creative-Fuel-that-Drives-WorldClass-Inventors/?kc=rss Sun, 01 Aug 2004 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Past-Reviews/Review-Creating-a-Crystal-Ball/?kc=rss - Seeing What's Next: Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change By Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony and Erik A. Roth Harvard Business School Press September 2004 352 pages $29.95 It seems counterintuitive to think you can propose a theory that will predict the future. B...]]> http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Past-Reviews/Review-Creating-a-Crystal-Ball/?kc=rss