Management and Business Books
A selection of our favourite management and business books.
Managing for Dummies
Bob Nelson
2003, ISBN: 0764517716
Managing involves teaching new skills to employees, helping land a new customer, accomplishing an important assignment, increasing performance, and much more. The process of management can be very challenging at times, but it can also bring you a sense of fulfillment that you never imagined possible. Organisations rely on managers to make the most out of situations and get the best possible results.
The Information Paradox: Realising the Business Benefits of Information Technology
John Thorp
2003, ISBN: 0070926980
For far too many organisations investments in information technology (IT) fail to provide equivalent long-term value. Taking an overall organisational governance approach, "The Information Paradox" addresses the issues companies often face with IT value as symptoms of a broader business value problem. Updated to confront current organisational questions and issues, this insightful book introduces the author's Enterprise Value Management model, which allows decision makers to address IT questions in relation to overall organisational governance and manage all of their assets, including information technology to derive full value from each.
Foundations of IT Service Management, Based on ITIL
Van Haren Publishing
2005, ISBN: 9077212582
This introduction to IT Service Management is intended to serve as a thorough and convenient introduction to the field of IT Service Management and the core books in the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL). It contains a wealth of practical knowledge collected by the editorial board that makes and raises questions, to encourage discussions and the comparison of the best practices found in the book with the reader's own experience.
Making Sense of Change Management
Esther Cameron, Mike Green
2004, ISBN: 0749440872
A complete guide to the models, tools and techniques of organisational change. All told, an impressively practical book that will help managers who are looking for ideas rather than instruction. Making Sense of Change Management is about making change easier. It is aimed at anyone who wants to understand why change happens, how it happens and what needs to be done to make change a welcome rather than a dreaded concept. However, this book is not a ‘one size fits all’ simplistic panacea to all change whatever the circumstances. Instead it offers considered insights into the many frameworks, models and ways of approaching change and helps the reader to apply the right approach to each unique situation.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
Stephen R. Covey
2004, ISBN: 0743272455
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change was a groundbreaker when it was first published in 1990 and it continues to be a business bestseller, with more than 10 million copies sold. Stephen Covey, an internationally respected leadership authority, realises that true success encompasses a balance of personal and professional effectiveness, so this book is a manual for performing better in both arenas. His anecdotes are as frequently from family situations as from business challenges.
Mastering the Requirements Process (2nd Edition)
Suzanne Robertson, James Robertson
2006, ISBN: 0321419499
Written in an engaging style and relevant for any software analyst or designer, Mastering the Requirements Process provides a powerful and useful guide to defining more complete software requirements that lead to better software overall. It's also filled with innovative advice. There are many excellent ideas in the book, including the notion of fitness for your requirements, which can be later used to track whether the software is successful. The book also wisely separates technology from requirements so that analysts can concentrate on understanding and modeling business problems instead of moving right away to the nuts and bolts of implementation.
Writing Better Requirements
Ian Alexander, Richard Stevens
2002, ISBN: 0321131630
Well-written requirements are crucial to systems of all kinds. This book explains and demonstrates exactly what requirements are for and how to write them. It provides practical techniques and defines key terms, explaining and illustrating to develop the skills of good requirements writing.
Successful IT Outsourcing: From Choosing a Provider to Managing the Project
Elizabeth Sparrow
2003, ISBN: 1852336102
Outsourcing permeates the IT world and has had a profound impact on the work of IS professionals. Nearly all will, at some stage in their careers, work with outsourced services as customer or supplier. Elizabeth Sparrow's insights into the benefits and pitfalls of this complex area will help IS professionals tackle the challenges of outsourcing. Combining relevant background information with practical guidance this book covers the whole outsourcing process, from the initial decision to outsource through to managing the outsourced services on a day-to-day basis.
Monte Carlo Methods in Finance
Peter Jaeckel
2002, ISBN: 047149741X
This book on financial Monte Carlo methods covers topics on mathematics behind Monte Carlo methods, correlation normal, log-normal and other processes, applications in risk management option pricing, value at risk, various reduction techniques, low discrepancy numbers and quantitative research.
The One Minute Manager
Kenneth Blanchard, Spencer Johnson
2004, ISBN: 0007107927
Starting from the assumption that people are every company's most important resource, this book sets out three simple steps to getting the best from them and making every company run more efficiently.