Socially Responsible IT Management

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Summary: Mitigate the undesirable impact of information technology
Review: There have been many side effects of information technology. Societies have become vulnerable to new types of security threats. The privacy of individual citizens is easily compromised. Trash dumps are becoming filled with computer junk and dirty recycling operations have cropped up around the world that endanger people and the environment. People that use computers extensively can suffer from sever eyestrain and physical pains because ergonomics is so often ignored. In many organizations well-educated professional information technology workers have been forced into sweatshop conditions of long hours and often unpaid overtime.

This is all happening because so many individuals, corporations, and governments do not understand the consequences of the widespread use of information technology. "Socially Responsible IT Management" guides people on how to get a grip on information technology and mitigate these undesirable and unhealthy consequences.

This book is very focused on issues that impact today's IT environment and solutions to address contemporary social issues. In addition, readers do not necessarily need to be seasoned IT managers to understand the social responsibility issues or take steps to improve their company's approach toward IT management.

Brandon L. Harris

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Summary: THE BEST IT MANAGEMENT BOOK EVER WRITTEN
Review: This is the best IT executive management book ever written. It cuts right to the chase: IT managers must be morally, ethically and legally responsible for their actions! In other words, they must be responsible to their employees, stock holders and the general public--not their pocket book. IT executive managers must be able to give an accurate and honest account of expenditures justification and what techniques they used to implement principles that can result in cost avoidenace and reduce exposure to liability--something that CIOs and CEOs at Adelphia Cable (the first executives (a real family affair) to be publically arrested in handcuffs); Enron; Andersen; Sotheby's; Christie's; Merrill Lynch; and, Tyco, never learned or even cared to implement.

This book would make an excellent addition to the library at the DOJ of the present administration. The arresting officers at the DOJ, might find after reading this book, that they are also socially responsible to the taxpayers to bring the offending executives to justice--that would include maximum penalties (30+ years in a real prison); and, the freezing and confiscation of all offshore and/or international accounts and assets.