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Summary: Family stick together
Review: Compelling insight on the importance of technology-driven business strategy. The only book that addresses this approach in a completely comprehensive way, challenging business leaders to rethink their approach to strategy and change. The "flexing" of business and IT architecture is thought-provoking, dynamic, yet critical to where business needs to be in the near future. And the "evolve or dissolve" subtitle best summarizes the nature of businesses today. I will read it again with my highlighter.
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Summary: A wonderful complement to corporate strategic thinking....
Review: Eric Marks has offered us a rich framework of information-age paradigms to complement the secular world of strategic thinking. A wonderful parallel is drawn between the organic nature of the corporation and the darwinian theory of survival. The author demonstrates that while thinking might be organic or hollistic, the IT organization lacks woefully behind due to its structure and the lack of generative planning that accompanies regular business chaos. The book makes a conscious effort to stop at theory and frameworks, hopefully to be continued with a plan to action and tools for the implementation in subsequent publications.
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Summary: A Must-Read Corporate IT Primer
Review: I found "Business Darwinism" to be a no-nonsense, intelligently written evolution of information. The reading experience is educating, and at the same time, entertaining. It's a compendium of fascinating, and important events that shaped our current day information systems models. The Darwin, and other evolution analogies that the author selected, as well as the attention-grabbing timelines and events makes for an interesting read. He very nicely positions the IT importance intelligently at the center of the corporate model without overstated importance, and supports it with well-built logic as to why it works. The appeal of the book is that anyone, hanging on to any position on the corporate flagpole will find it both interesting and educational, as it helps him or her understand the core value of information at the business level, without all the technogibberish.
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Summary: A Must-Read Corporate IT Primer
Review: I found "Business Darwinism" to be a no-nonsense, intelligently written evolution of information. The reading experience is educating, and at the same time, entertaining. It's a compendium of fascinating, and important events that shaped our current day information systems models. The Darwin, and other evolution analogies that the author selected, as well as the attention-grabbing timelines and events makes for an interesting read. He very nicely positions the IT importance intelligently at the center of the corporate model without overstated importance, and supports it with well-built logic as to why it works. The appeal of the book is that anyone, hanging on to any position on the corporate flagpole will find it both interesting and educational, as it helps him or her understand the core value of information at the business level, without all the technogibberish.
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Summary: Information Mastery is the key to Survival!
Review: IT is on the verge of becoming a commodity and an integral part of our every day life. Information is now on our finger tips. Unfortunately, most businesses still don't have good visibility to their operations. In this book, Eric makes the argumaent that all businesses, large or small, must make real-time information part of their daily decision making process. He calls this concept Information-Based Business Modeling or Information Mastery. He discusses at length how companies can leverage real-time intelligence internally as well as with their customers and partners. Marks supports his reasoning exceptionally well with many real life examples. Eric's concepts are based on many years of first hand experience in implementing IT solutions. Business executives will greatly benefit from the concepts presented in this book.
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Summary: Just When you thought you knew it all
Review: This book helped me to rethink how I use the information available to me. It showed how to build information processes and businessinteligence into my core business operations. The case studies that were presented made the author's points even clearer. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to ensure that their company continue to survive and profit in this age of abundant information.
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