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Title: Enriching the Value Chain: Infrastructure Strategies Beyond the Enterprise by Bruce Robertson, Valentin Sribar ISBN: 0-201-76730-9 Publisher: Pearson Education Pub. Date: 28 January, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Builds upon and supersedes authors' earlier book
Comment: This book is an extensive rework of the authors' "The Adaptive Enterprise", and in my opinion supersedes that earlier book.
Like the first book this one borrows heavily from the software engineering community to employ proven techniques, such as layered design, patterns and a component-based approach to infrastructure. Where this book extends and builds upon the earlier work is the emphasis on extending the corporate infrastructure into a meta infrastructure that is characterized by B2B and supply chains. As such it lives up to the title because the goal of the extended infrastructure is to enrich the value chain - or at least support the underlying business goals.
What I like about this book is what the authors propose is not only attainable, but makes good business sense. It starts with a 22-page introduction that clearly defines what is and is not infrastructure, and the concept of an adaptivity. These are important to understanding the approach that follows. Chapter 2, Laying the Foundation, quickly gives the basics for a layered infrastructure, develops a model for associated services that are needed to make the infrastructure adaptable, and drills down into service-related issues. I am not in complete agreement with the impact that this approach has on IT organizational structures; however, I am not willing to write it off as unfeasible until I have a chance to carefully think it through. The ideas do have merit (on paper) and are better developed in the first book.
Much of the rest of the book is a rehash of "The Adaptive Enterprise", but the material is slanted towards the extended infrastructure. What is important is the emphasis on patterns and components as frameworks and building blocks. Where the first book brought infrastructure management to a new level, this book extends it in a manner that reflects the realities of connected enterprises defined by supply chain management and business partners. Please see my review of "The Adaptive Enterprise" for specifics that apply to this book, and if you're deciding between the two books, this is the one to get.
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Title: Harvard Business Review on the Business Value of IT (The Harvard Business Review Paperback Series) by Harvard Business Review ISBN: 0875849121 Publisher: Harvard Business School Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Managing IT as a Business : A Survival Guide for CEOs by Mark Lutchen ISBN: 0471471046 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 03 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan, Charles Burck ISBN: 0609610570 Publisher: Crown Business Pub. Date: 11 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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