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The IT Manager's Survival Guide

ISBN: 978-0-470-84454-0
Hardcover
320 pages
April 2002
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Foreword by Sir Ron Brierley.

Introduction.

Becoming a manager.

Knowing your customer.

Our greatest asset.

Developing staff.

Supporting roles.

Managing recruiters.

The rules of engagement.

Establishing sound corporate governance.

Establishing service level agreements.

Dealing with hot spots.

Tips for quick-wins.

Living with legacy systems.

Managing vendors.

Using consultants.

Business process re-engineering.

Benchmarking.

Help desk management.

Disaster recovery planning.

Managing change.

Outsourcing.

Give the business intelligence.

Planning the future.

Understanding architectures.

Taking stock of your assets.

Structuring the IT organization.

Where to next?.

Appendix A Yukl's Specific Behaviours for Managing Relations.

Appendix B Business initiative proposal.

Appendix C Thorpe's 4 Rs.

Appendix D1 Jacques' time span.

Appendix D2 Jaques' complexity measures.

Appendix E1 Software inventory.

Appendix E2 Hardware inventory.

Appendix F Examples of principles.

References.

Further reading.

Index.
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