Management of IT

Leading Virtual Project Teams addresses the challenges the virtual project management environment poses to traditional methods of leadership and communication.It explores many facets of e-leadership–from traditional leadership theories to virtual project communications.The book provides fresh approa..

This book arms IT professionals with the skills and technical insight to make it in IT today. Based on the author's long career in IT and vast range of professional experience, the book is a companion and guide to every IT professional. Readers learn how to hone presentation, communication, and mana..

Making IT Lean presents Lean concepts and techniques for improving processes and eliminating waste in IT operations and IT Service Management. The authors provide a context for discussing several areas of application within this domain, allowing you to quickly gain insight into IT processes and Lean..

This book provides a framework for understanding and managing factors required for achieving successful project and program outcomes. It presents guidelines to help readers develop an understanding of governance and its connection to strategy as the starting point for decisions on what work needs to..

Supplying you with powerful methods for reducing the energy costs associated with operating your data center, this book examines both equipment and building facilities. For those not well-versed in financial or energy terms, the first two chapters provide a detailed discussion of the terms associate..

Named one of the Best Privacy Advisers in the World by Computerworld magazine and a Top 13 Influencer in IT Security by IT Security Magazine, Rebecca Herold provides authoritative coverage of what it takes to create an effective information security and privacy awareness training program. She detail..

This newly revised edition of Managing IT Outsourcing presents the latest theory, research and practice in this fast-changing field to explore how information outsourcing partnerships can be managed successfully...

There are literally hundreds of processes taking place simultaneously in an organization, each creating value in some way. This book is about pushing the performance of the automation and maintenance of these processes in the right direction. It thoroughly explains the concepts behind performance ma..

This book explains how to address the risks that can arise from outsourcing or adopting cloud technology. Providing you with an understanding of the fundamentals, it supplies authoritative guidance and examples on how to tailor the right risk approach for your organization. Covering onshore, offshor..

This book provides comprehensive guidelines on how to evaluate an accurate and feasible ROI throughout the iterative development cycle of a project, before the project has progressed to the point where it is already over budget and over-run. It explains to how to evaluate the return and subsequent s..

Demonstrating how mobile devices can create a backdoor to security threats, this book details actions that can be taken to defend against these threats. It defines the concepts essential to understanding the security threats to contemporary mobile devices, and takes readers through the policy, proce..

This book explains why it is essential to account for the human factor when determining the various risks in the software engineering process. It presents an information technology (IT) human resources evaluation approach that is rooted in existing research and describes how to enhance existing appr..