Management of IT Books

New and Published Books

1. Information Services Design

   A Design Science Approach for Sustainable Knowledge

   By Fons Wijnhoven

   Series: Routledge Studies in Organization and Systems

   Information services are economic and organizational activities for informing people. Because informing is changing rapidly under the influence of internet-technologies, this book presents in Chapter 1 fundamental notions of information and knowledge, based on philosopher C.W. Churchman’s inquiring...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
2. Dictionary of Project Management Terms, Third Edition

   By J. LeRoy Ward

   Now in its third edition, this dictionary contains 3,400 key terms, words, and phrases used in the day-to-day practice of project management. Along with traditional project management terms, it includes broader business terms to help seasoned managers and their successors navigate more easily the...

   Published December 20th 2011 by ESI International
3. Information Security Governance Simplified

   From the Boardroom to the Keyboard

   By Todd Fitzgerald

   Security practitioners must be able to build cost-effective security programs while also complying with government regulations. Information Security Governance Simplified: From the Boardroom to the Keyboard lays out these regulations in simple terms and explains how to use control frameworks to...

   Published December 19th 2011 by CRC Press
4. Asset Protection through Security Awareness

   By Tyler Justin Speed

   Supplying a high-level overview of how to protect your company’s physical and intangible assets, Asset Protection through Security Awareness explains the best ways to enlist the assistance of your employees as the first line of defense in safeguarding company assets and mitigating security risks....

   Published December 19th 2011 by Auerbach Publications
5. IT Best Practices

   Management, Teams, Quality, Performance, and Projects

   By Tom C. Witt

   Consistent success does not happen by chance. It occurs by having an understanding of what is happening in the environment and then having the skills to execute the necessary changes. Ideal for project, IT, and systems development managers, IT Best Practices: Management, Teams, Quality,...

   Published December 19th 2011 by Auerbach Publications
6. Web-Based and Traditional Outsourcing

   By Vivek Sharma, Varun Sharma, K.S. Rajasekaran

   Series: Infosys Press

   In today’s increasingly competitive business environment, organizations must be able to adapt to the ever-changing business landscape where traditional business concepts no longer ensure success. The future will be driven by value and competing ideas—creating an environment where old alignments and...

   Published December 18th 2011 by Auerbach Publications
7. Practical Data Mining

   By Monte F. Hancock, Jr.

   Used by corporations, industry, and government to inform and fuel everything from focused advertising to homeland security, data mining can be a very useful tool across a wide range of applications. Unfortunately, most books on the subject are designed for the computer scientist and statistical...

   Published December 18th 2011 by Auerbach Publications
8. Process-Driven SOA

   Patterns for Aligning Business and IT

   By Carsten Hentrich, Uwe Zdun

   Series: Infosys Press

   Process-Driven SOA: Patterns for Aligning Business and IT supplies detailed guidance on how to design and build software architectures that follow the principles of business-IT alignment. It illustrates the design process using proven patterns that address complex business/technical scenarios,...

   Published December 18th 2011 by Auerbach Publications
9. Data Warehouse Designs

   Achieving ROI with Market Basket Analysis and Time Variance

   By Fon Silvers

   Market Basket Analysis (MBA) provides the ability to continually monitor the affinities of a business and can help an organization achieve a key competitive advantage. Time Variant data enables data warehouses to directly associate events in the past with the participants in each individual event....

   Published December 13th 2011 by Auerbach Publications
10. Maximizing Benefits from IT Project Management

    From Requirements to Value Delivery

    By José López Soriano

    Series: Advanced & Emerging Communications Technologies

    With the majority of IT projects being delivered late, over budget, or cancelled altogether, it is clear that traditional project management methodologies do not provide an effective framework for today’s IT projects. It is clear that a new Return-on-Investment (ROI) oriented approach is required...

    Published December 12th 2011 by CRC Press