Lessons in Grid Computing (eBook)

The System Is a Mirror

Stuart Robbins (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2006 | 1. Auflage
384 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-0-470-04750-7 (ISBN)

Infos

"You should not overlook the potential genius in this
concept."

--Geoffrey Moore, consultant and author, Dealing with Darwin

"Since he first identified 'information systems as mirrors of the
people who build them' for me, I have seen it operate in many ways.
It is a fascinating idea, and a completely new way of thinking
about technology."

--Sean Moriarty, Chief Operating Officer, Ticketmaster

"This book makes for compelling reading--it's easy to become
immersed in the stories, and the insights gradually grow in the
reader's mind as they take root in the character's minds. This is
quite a useful work. The ideas presented here could be quickly put
to practical use in any organization."

--Mohamed Muhsin, VP and CIO, The World Bank

A breakthrough exploration of information systems as mirrors of the
people who build them.

Packed with truer-than-life stories, stimulating characters, and
unique IT analysis, Lessons in Grid Computing finally
declares:

* Our systems will not "talk to each other" if our people are not
talking to each other

* We must transform ourselves to the same degree that we want to
transform our systems

* To correct problems in our information systems, we must first
address the problems between the people that build and support
them

Discover how to adjust your management style to enable the next
generation of technologies with the help of Lessons in Grid
Computing.

Autor

STUART ROBBINS, a senior management consultant and lecturer, is the founder and Executive Director of The CIO Collective, a not-for-profit association of technology executives providing strategic guidance to emerging institutions and initiatives, including Yahoo!, Macromedia, The World Bank, the Federal CIO Council, and numerous venture capital firms on the west coast. Stuart has served on advisory boards for Encentuate, Netscaler/Citrix, DataArt, Morgan Stanley, and Ziff Davis Media, and held senior IT management positions at Cadence Design Systems, Synopsys, Inc., EMC Documentum, and Jamcracker where he served as the company's first CIO. He is a contributing author to CIO Wisdom: Best Practices from Silicon Valley's Leading IT Experts and serves on the editorial board for ISM Journal, a quarterly IT magazine in which he also writes a column entitled "Sustainable Knowledge." He holds a master's degree in fine arts from Warren Wilson College and lives in Oakland, California, with his wife, his son Max, three cats, and a golden retriever.

Inhalt

Foreword by Geoffrey Moore.

Foreword by Thornton May.

Acknowledgments.

Chapter 1: The Prime Theorem

Information Systems Mirror the People that Build Them.

Chapter 2: Interfaces

How They Work and What Happens When They Are Broken.

Chapter 3: Relationship Management

We Can No Longer Manage the Systems as Single Nodes.

Chapter 4: Virtualization

A Natural Stage in the Maturity Cycle of Technologies

Chapter 5: Orchestration

Finding a Sensible Order amid too Many Complications to Count.

Chapter 6: Complexity

Databases, Passwords, Collaboration, Funding, Smashed Atoms, and a
Professor.

Chapter 7: Distributed Resources

Two Types of Diffusion--Compute Resources and Human
Capital.

Chapter 8: Flash Teams

Analysis of New Organizational Groups from Several
Perspectives.

Chapter 9: Network as Narrative Form

Basic Building Blocks Connected to Create Various Structures.

Chapter 10: Identity

Finding the Needle in the Haystack and Giving It a Name.

Chapter 11: Organizational Architecture

How We Organize Ourselves Is as Important as What We Say and
Do.

Chapter 12: (Theory of) Resonant Usability

Everything Is Moving to the Presentation Layer, Where Humans
Interact.

Chapter 13: Turbulence

Creating Stability in the Face of Chaotic Disruption.

Chapter 14: Libraries

Two Lives, Two Windows, and the Search for Information.

Chapter 15: Abstraction

Lift Yourself above the Conflicting Details and Look for
Similarity.

Chapter 16: Insubordination as an Asset

Why You Must Allow Employees to Disagree with Your Decisions.

Chapter 17: The Consortium

The Multisourced IT Organization and a Software Commons--Our
Future.

Chapter 18: The Everysphere

An Example of Synchronous Events between "Unrelated"
Objects.

Chapter 19: Q Narratives

Understand the Story and You Will Understand the Business
Process.

Chapter 20: Leaving Flatland

To Adjust Somehow after Learning That Your World Has Another
Dimension.

Chapter 21: We Are the Platform

Some Final Observations about the System and the Mirror.

Index.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.10.2006
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
• Schlagworte: Business & Management • grid computing • Informationstechnologie • Management • Wirtschaft u. Management
• ISBN-10: 0-470-04750-X / 047004750X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-470-04750-7 / 9780470047507