Phil Windley's TechnometriaOrganizations Get the IT They DeserveBook Review- June 17, 2002 IT Organization: Building A Worldclass Infrastructureby Harris Kern, Stuart Galup, Guy Nemiro Supporting business needs and aligning IT with business strategy are important issues that seem to be at the top of every CIO's agenda. One of the ways to do this is to have a world class IT infrastructure. Kern, who at one time was the CIO at Sun Microsystems, defines infrastructure as everything used in IT to support the business including the people, processes, and organization. ..http://www.windley.com/archives/2002/06/book_review_1.shtml Book Review- June 13, 2002 Decentralization: Fantasies, Failings, and Fundamentalsby N. Dean Meyer When I first read this book, I couldn't believe that someone had captured the essence of my organizational frustrations so succinctly. The first part of the book talks about the good reasons organizations decentralize. The second part of the book talks about the huge costs of decentralization. These reasons and the associated costs lead to a pendulum effect of an organization centralizing to save...http://www.windley.com/archives/2002/06/book_review.shtml |