Place Making

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One of the hottest trends in real estate is the development of town centers and urban villages that include a mix of uses in a pedestrian friendly setting. This new book will help you navigate the unique development issues and options and show you how to make all of the elements work together. You will learn about the economic and social forces driving this trend; how these projects are being developed in master planned communities, infill, and redevelopment areas; special regulatory, market and finance issues; and how suburban planners and developers are pursuing town center concepts to create attractive gathering places for their communities. Illustrat-ed in full color, the book includes case studies and examples that describe how leading professionals met the challenges and developed innovative and successful projects.

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Excellent for Urban Planning!.......2007-01-10

I was put on to this book by a professor at USF School of Architecture. It contains not only the history of placemaking but real examples of placemaking and tools in how to achieve the notion of "place." Not only is this a great resource, but it is easy to read and follow along.

Highly reccomended!

Power and ample information and graphics.......2006-08-24

I found this book to be one of the best out on the topic, of which there are too few at present for such an important topic. The depth and breadth of place-making topics and their coverage makes this a very excellent easy-to-read-and-understand as well as a long-term reference tool. The graphics are very well done. Having recently attended a Harvard program on retail for cities and new towns and urban center given by Bob Gibbs and Terry Shook, I especially found the book right on target. I want to see more of these types of books.

Making Technology Investments Profitable: ROI Roadmap to Better Business Cases

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A valuable read for IT marketers
The Best IT Sales Tool of All Time
useful if you don't have much of a clue
Make sure your IT investments are profitable.
Raises the bar in business case development

Making Technology Investments Profitable: ROI Roadmap to Better Business Cases
Jack M. Keen , and Bonnie Digrius
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Insuring the value of IT ventures, from implementation through execution
Over 50 percent of all Information Technology projects fail, not only costing companies considerable monetary investment but also thwarting key strategic initiatives for which the new technology was critical. This book helps executives and managers increase IT project success by using a process for identifying the true ROI value for proposed IT investments-"Real ROI"-then tracking project results against that standard. This guide provides an abundance of pragmatic tips, tools, and techniques to make the process easy to understand, focusing on implementing an ROI plan as well as on tracking IT investments and measuring results postimplementation.

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A valuable read for IT marketers .......2007-02-06

Although this book is targeted primarily to IT purchasers, it provides valuable insight and guidance for those who market IT products. Too often, marketers use empty phrases to describe the potential value of investing in their products. The content in this book will help marketers substantiate those claims and make all of their product messages and promotional materials more credible and compelling.

The Best IT Sales Tool of All Time.......2005-10-10

Written by a 17-year Silicon Valley Sales Veteran - Since 2001, closing sizable deals has been difficult. The old 5 page consultative selling ROI spreadsheet has very little credibility. This book my friend put credibility and VALUE back into your ROI sales quiver. In fact, I give a copy of this book to my champion within the account so that he can get me to the information to develop a comprehensive business case that clearly and logically support a justifiable ROI. I actually have reservations writing this review because at the moment, this book is my competitive edge. But because this book helped me close three deals each in excess of $11M in the third quarter of 2005, I have to give this endorsement to the author.

useful if you don't have much of a clue.......2004-11-02

I got this book amongst other related ones, for a management learning project I participate in. My background in formal evaluation of IT projects is essentially zero.

I expected this book to provide me with some oversight on the topic, and practical tools amd methods to carry out the assignment.

The book delivers on both aspects, so I feel I have to explain why I give it only a "fair" 3 stars rating.

The book conveys a host of conventional wisdom nicely and orderly packaged, a lot of "practical" stuff (that I don't expect to be able to use in practice though), and a "solution to any situation in 11 steps" attitude, all of which imho make it essentially a sort of consultant-held 2-day course in written form.

Also, it's useful in that you don't get confused with several approaches, but just the ROI approach may not be enough. You'll likely need more than this to get the job done.

In conclusion, it's a good book, but not something you can't do without, nor particularly enlightening, nor your definitive source on this topic.

Make sure your IT investments are profitable........2004-10-13

If you really want to make sure your IT investments are making money to your organization, this is the book that will help you to get the right and supported answer.

Jack M Keen describes in a very detailed way how to track the benefits and real business value from the IT Investments. Is a well written and fast, easy to read book that worth's every dollar you spend on it.

Don't have any doubts; this may be the more useful book you may get about the subject. I have read others (Like IT Payoff, and others) and are OK, but this is the more practical and useful of all.

Raises the bar in business case development.......2004-03-22

I have a pile of books that address the same subject and would not have picked this one up if a colleague had not persistently badgered me into reading it. Instead of yet another tome on business cases, ROI and value, I discovered what to me is the absolute best book on the following three areas:

(1) business case development - the authors shine here by showing how to craft a realistic business case that does look at the important factors and benefits. More importantly, you're shown how NOT to write a business case, and common problems with too many business cases that are presented (and all-too-often accepted). This aspect of the book alone raises the bar in business case development.

(2) properly computing ROI that is real - in many organizations ROI is a forbidden word and NPV used instead. One reason for this is it's rarely computed correctly. Before reading this book I used ROI as a quick and dirty gage, but always looked to NPV as the deciding factor when exploring the feasibility to a project or solution. The way the authors expose fallacies of improper ROI computation, and how to avoid them is invaluable, and will restore credibility to ROI as a realistic indicator.

(3) assuring value - the VALUE-on-Demand approach the authors propose is a straightforward method for evaluating, selecting and prioritizing projects. This methodology has no flaws that I can find, and will add structure, clarity and process to governance.

Regardless of your experience, there is much to learn from this book. It can serve as a company 'how-to' guide and standard as is with little-to-no tailoring, and represents the best book I own on business case development and determining ROI. It's also one of the best books on establishing a viable governance program I've read.

Making Foreign Investment Safe: Property Rights and National Sovereignty
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For specialist only

Not really interesting

Making Foreign Investment Safe: Property Rights and National Sovereignty
Louis T. Wells , and Rafiq Ahmed
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ASIN: 0195310624

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With real case stories, Wells and Ahmed bring to life both the hopes for and the failures of international guarantees of property rights for investors in the developing world. Their cases focus on infrastructure projects, but the lessons apply equally to many other investments. In the 1990's inexperienced firms from rich countries jumped directly into huge projects in some of the world's least developed countries. Their investments reflected almost unbridled enthusiasm for emerging markets and trust in new international guarantees. Yet within a few years the business pages of the world press were reporting an exploding number of serious disputes between foreign investors and governments. As the expected bonanzas proved elusive and the protections weaker than anticipated, many foreign investors became disenchanted with emerging markets. So bad were the outcomes in some cases that a few notable infrastructure firms came close to bankruptcy; several others hurriedly fled poor countries as projects soured. In this book, Louis Wells and Rafiq Ahmed show why disputes developed, point out how investments and disputes have changed over time, explore why various firms responded differently to crises, and question the basic wisdom of some of the enthusiasm for privatization. The authors tell how firms, countries, and multilateral development organizations can build a conflict-management system that balances the legitimate economic and social concerns of the host countries and those of investors. Without these changes, multinational corporations will lose profitable opportunities and poor countries will not gain the contributions that foreign investment can make toward alleviating poverty.

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For specialist only.......2007-09-23

I found the book by chance whilst doing my Master degree research on the high profile case of Karaha Bodas and its International Arbitration process. Previously shouted "Eureka!", but got amazed on its tag price, especially when compared to its content; mostly Indonesian companies' case. Its real life case study approach should be appreciated though, but I do not think that this book would be useful served all but to some specialists.

Not really interesting.......2007-05-04

This book is not really interesting. I expected a good book about property rights and financial investments, but the book is uses cases all the time. There is no theory in it. The whole case is about Indonesia. It is only useful for people that like to know more about the history of investments in Indonesia. The title of this book is very misleading.

Investment Blunders of the Rich and Famous...and What You Can Learn From Them

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ZERO starts not an option unfortunately
Entertaining and Interesting
Find a Better Book to Read on Stock Investing
Wasted my time
Didn't even attempt to stick to the title

Investment Blunders of the Rich and Famous...and What You Can Learn From Them
John R. Nofsinger
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Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes And How To Correct Them: Lessons From The New Science Of Behavioral Economics
Way of the Turtle: The Secret Methods that Turned Ordinary People into Legendary Traders
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ASIN: 0130668419

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We're all human - especially when we're investing. In Investment Blunders (of the Rich and Famous) ... And What You Can Learn From Them, one of the world's leading experts on investor psychology deconstructs spectacular failures from the world's most prom

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ZERO starts not an option unfortunately.......2006-02-06

The author should be sued for deception. The biggest blunder I've ever made was buying this book.

Entertaining and Interesting.......2005-01-22

One thing you should realize about this book is that it is not a detailed investment book. If you are looking for such a book you should pick up something by Bill Bernstein or Jack Bogle. The vast majority of this book deals with behavioral finance (and the stupid mistakes people can make as a result) and colorful stories of huge investment blunders that modern professionals have made. I think it is critical to understand the mistakes that people can make because of their mood, fears, unbridled optimism, etc. This book tries to adddress much of that. The chapters dealing with huge plunders that professionals have made are entertaining and informative.

Only one chapter in this book deals with specific investment strategy. Of course, it deals with the subject in a summary fashion. That being said, however, it actually is not a bad chapter, especially if this is not the first investment book you have read. One thing I must point out is that I think that the author's suggested asset allocation chart is wrong. His chart on page 261 indicates that if you want a 10% return over a period of time you should invest 50% of your money in bonds, 12% in cash and 38% in equities. I think if you followed his suggestion you would get a return significantly lower than 10%. I think the chart inflates the returns you should expect for any given allocation and should be ignored. With this one caveat, I highly recommend this book.

Find a Better Book to Read on Stock Investing.......2003-06-02

This book is one of the most peculiar I have ever read in terms of handling its subject. The book's title subject isn't directly addressed until chapters 12-14, and then doesn't provide anything you couldn't read about in a more detailed and interesting way somewhere else. It's as though the publisher's marketing department tried to create a title to make the book into something that it really isn't.

Then, all of the proactive advice is saved for chapter 15. That material is about as developed as a magazine article. You need to have specific financial goals, determine a reasonable investment rate of return to seek (in light of your age and goals), make appropriate asset allocations, and then find cheap ways to implement your approach (such as with index funds and exchange traded funds).

The material in the earlier chapters is entertaining, and generally well done (and properly referenced) but it just doesn't fit well into a book to teach you how to invest. It's like a series of interesting factoids, without connecting the dots very well. Any of John Bogle's books would do you more good in terms of understanding these same issues when it comes to your investing. A new book, A Mathematician Plays the Market, is also a superior story to this one.

It's very hard to scale up article-sized bits of knowledge into a book. I recommend that Professor Nofsinger find a co-author for a future edition to help him better string together his story. His knowledge level seems good, and he would seem to be capable of producing a much better book in the future. I hope he does.

Wasted my time.......2003-03-26

I wish I had read raspell's review before I bought the book. Now I've given up in frustration after 6 chapters, or about one-third through. As raspell pointed out, not one investment blunder by anyone rich OR famous was mentioned in the first third of the book.

Not only that, it is peppered with generalisms which the author makes little attempt to explain, and which in any case sound fishy to me. Like this one: you are only rewarded for taking market risk, not stock-specific risk, hence there is no point taking stock-specific risk. If I remember my rational economics, all risk must be rewarded, otherwise no one will take them.

Finally, it contains dangerous analytical flaws, which can lead to bad investment decisions. For example, it asserts wrongly that it is illogical if a stock's market capitalisation is less than the value of an asset it owns. This totally ignores the question of how the asset is funded. If a company owns nothing but an asset worth $1b, funded by loans worth $1b, is the company worth $1b?

I would seriously not recommend this book to anyone.

PS. I have since gone on to read Chapters 12-14, which deal with the blunders of five big-time traders. Three chapters out of 15 - that's a poor execution of the title, I'm afraid. I can get more from an hour or two on the net.

Didn't even attempt to stick to the title.......2002-10-15

Investment Blunders of the Rich and Famous? A great title for a book that enticed this sucker to buy it. But really the book is nothing but a general examination of investment theory. Let me save you the purchase of the book. You can't beat the market and studies prove if you try you will waste too much money in brokerage comissions. How depressing!!!

And who are these rich and famous? They are nowhere to be found. He does have a chapter of famous losers like Nick Leeson who broke an English bank and Robert Citron who bankrupted Orange County California. But that is as close as you get to this misleading title.

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Frequently not enough attention is given to producing a comprehensive business case or to producing an economic justification for an information systems investment. In fact many organizations are not clear as to what constitutes a sound business case and how to go about producing one. This Professional level book for the Computer Weekly Professional Series will show how to go about justification for I.T. spend.

This book is designed for all those who are involved in the decision to invest in information systems. This book is especially relevant to senior business executives, senior financial managers and IT executives.

Business consultants, computer and corporate advisors will also find the ideas and material addressed in this text of particular benefit as will anyone involved in corporate and strategic planning.

In addition, senior students such as those working towards their MBAs will find this book of use.

A business case is a statement or a series of statements that demonstrate the economic value of a particular intervention, a course of action or a specific investment. A business case is not simply a financial forecast of the hardware and software costs and the expected benefits. A business case for an information systems investment involves a comprehensive understanding of both the likely resources as well as the business drivers which will assist business managers improve their performance and thereby obtain a stream of benefits from the investment.

In general there are approximately six steps in producing a business case for an information systems investment.

1. Determine the high-level business outcomes that will be clearly and comprehensively expressed as a set of opportunities the organization can take advantage of, or problems that need to be rectified.
2. Identify the corporate critical success factors that will be supported or enhanced by the operation of the completed information systems project or investment.
3. Create a list of specific and detailed outcomes or benefits, their appropriate metrics, measuring methods and responsibility points that are represented by the stakeholders.
4. Quantify the contribution made by the outcomes, which requires associating numbers or benefit values with outcomes where this is possible.
5. Highlight the risks associated with the project.

Fundamental to this new approach to developing a business case for information systems investment is the fact that it incorporates much more than the financial numbers which are typically found in the standard approach to a feasibility study. This approach looks behind the financial numbers to the improvements in business performance which are facilitated by information systems and which are the real drivers of the benefits. Furthermore, this approach to developing a business case allows the organization to manage the process so that the required results are achieved.

Looks at how to put a business case together and has the added benefit of a series of forms and templates to enable quick business plans to be put together, available to download free from publisher's web site
Shows how to create a list of specific and detailed outcomes or benefits, their appropriate metrics, measuring methods and responsibility points
Highlights the risks associated with projects

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Business case development done right - highly recommended!.......2001-07-09

The primary audiences of this book are: (1)IT governance boards for whom the summaries at the end of each of the eleven chapters will provide ample information, (2) program management offices, which can use this book as the basis for business case standards, policies and procedures, (3) upper IT management who will greatly benefit from the skillful blending of strategy and cost management, and who will also get excellent ideas about how to better support their business customers, and (4) project managers. For the last group this book represents a valuable resource - PMs managing projects in accordance with the British standard called PRINCE2 will have a ready made reference for business case development, which is a requirement for the Managing Stage Boundary (SB) process, and those who are working within the U.S. standard defined by the Project Management Institute's Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) will find that this book will greatly augment the scope knowledge area and associated processes.

Each chapter follows in a sequence. Chapter 1 introduces the author's model and how it will benefit you. Pay close attention here because chapters that follow require hard work and commitment from many stakeholders. This means resistance, and you'll find the material here useful if you wind up in the odd position of making a *business case* for implementing a business case methodology.

Chapter 2 covers preparing a business case. I like the way the author breaks down the elements of an IT business case and how it's cast into a process. The next chapter discusses how to objectively evaluate a business case and is another highlight of this book. Strategy and analysis are blended in Chapter 4, which covers the business outcome. This chapter has some interesting approaches, including the development of a macro model (with an example provided), and how this is decomposed into micro models that examine factors and assumptions from which to derive a quantifiable business benefit. What makes the approach here so interesting is the relationships between and among the micro models are also carefully examined using a "Meso" model (this model type is commonly used to analyze complex physical interrelationships in weather forecasting). Common sense needs to be applied here - you will not use the entire array of techniques to support a minor project. On the other hand, a strategic decision like web-enabling an enterprise or a high-value e-commerce initiative certainly should be subjected to the painstakingly detained process given in this chapter.

Stakeholders, strategic alignment of IT to business and technology issues are the topics of Chapters 5 through 7, each of which contains essential information for implementing the author's business case approach. Project managers will greatly appreciate the material in Chapter 8, which covers risk identification and management. I like the 3x3 IT project risk framework provided. Chapter 9 is a thorough treatment of business case accounting (also known as cost/benefit analysis). Here Mr. Remenyi dissects the topic with precision, covering cost items, estimate sources (cost and benefit), and a number of analysis techniques. This is one of the best chapters in my opinion.

Chapters 10 and 11 are devoted to evaluating, weighing and prioritizing business cases, and how to effectively use business cases in conjunction with project management. The latter is completely consistent with the PRINCE2 method I mentioned earlier. The remainder of the book consists of a case study, and appendices that provide an extensive collection of questionnaires and forms, and a nicely done description of financial measures used in cost-benefit analysis.

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The 17 chapters in this book, which evolved from a conference on measuring the contributions of ITS sponsored by the California Department of Transportation in February 2002, examine the costs and benefits of ITS in an economic and business policy context.
Section 1 examines the broad theme of how and what ITS contributes to the economy and how one makes a business case for ITS. Section 2 includes three chapters on ITS applications in mass transit. Section 3 explores ITS applications in the automobile/highway system. Section 4 considers integrative issues including how ITS is perceived and how it can be positioned to improve surface transportation.
This volume will be especially useful to researchers and policy makers working in transportation, transportation engineering, and the economic analysis of transportation systems.

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Table of Contents.......2005-11-02

This book is about evaluations of Intelligent Transportation Systems. The Table of Contents is below.

1. Assessing the Investment in ITS: An Introduction - David Gillen and David Levinson

Part I: ITS and Transportation Services in the Economy

2. Public-Private Partnering: ITS in Highway Investment - David Lewis
3. Benefit measures, values, and future impacts if ITS - Dan Brand
4. Making the Case for ITS Investment - Douglass Lee

Part II: Intelligent Transit

5. Bus Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) Systems - Mark Hickman
6. Case Study: The Impact of Advanced Technology on a Small City Bus System - Edward Sullivan and Jeffrey Gerfen
7. Beyond Benefits and Costs: Understanding Outcomes of ITS Deployments in Public Transit - Genevieve Giuliano, Thomas O'Brien

Part III: Intelligent Highways

8. Traffic Signal Control Systems - Alex Skabardonis
9. Evaluating the Effectiveness of Ramp Meters: Evidence from the Twin Cities Ramp Meter Shut-off - Lei Zhang and David Levinson
10. Electronic Toll Collection and Variable Pricing - Mark Burris
11. Freeway Service Patrols: A Stated Preference Analysis of Insurance Values - Pavithra Parthasarathi, David Levinson, and David Gillen
12. Advanced Traveler Information Systems: Relationships to Traveler Behavior - Asad Khattak , Felipe Targa, Youngbin Yim
13. Travel Time Reliability : Using Real-time Loop Detector Data to Estimate Mixed Logit Route Choice - Henry Liu, Will Recker and Anthony Chen

Part IV: Integrating ITS into Transportation Practice

14. Traffic Management Systems - Wei Chen and David Levinson
15. Advanced Traffic Management System Data - Robert Bertini
16. ITS in Europe: An Economic Evaluation - Reinaldo Garcia
17. Mainstreaming Intelligent Transportation Systems: Findings from a Survey of California's Leaders - Elizabeth Deakin
18. Information Systems to Improve Surface Transportation: Directions for Intelligent Transportation Systems Assessment and Development - Tom Horan

Case Studies In Finance:Managing For Corporate Value Creation

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for advanced level classes
WARNING-These are only cases, almost NO content
Good Finance book
Bravo to Bruner!
Excellent, made the subject practical

Case Studies In Finance:Managing For Corporate Value Creation
Robert F. Bruner
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The primary market for this book is the case course in finance which is generally taught to undergraduate finance majors as a capstone course and to graduate students in a first or second finance course.

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for advanced level classes.......2007-07-31

This is a great book. However if you want to get the most out of it
1. You need to already know corporate finance- intermediate to advanced level.
2. This book has only cases. Only if they are discussed in a classroom setting, you would be able to learn something.
The extent to which you would learn would depend upon how well the Professor conducts the discussion in the class. I had a great Prof. for this class so I really applied whatever I learn over 3 semesters of finance.

WARNING-These are only cases, almost NO content.......2004-03-18

I bought this book to read outside of a class hoping to read through some really good case studies in finance, and hopefully apply several semesters worth of finance classes to some real world examples. However after receiving the book I realized that these were only cases, not case studies, meant to be discussed in a class. There is almost no content, and college professors would actually be better off building their own cases from current business publications.

Good Finance book.......2004-01-28

The cases in this book will make one think more than other books in this area.

Bravo to Bruner!.......2003-02-10

Case Studies in Finance and its instructors manual are absolutely the BEST of their kind in all the years I've been teaching finance and strategy. Bravo to Bruner! I've never seen an instructor's manual so complete. The At-a-Glance section has been very helpful when structuring a course design. Case Studies in Finance and its supplements are being used by the finance faculty at ESADE Business School, in Spain, as a guide to restructure their first year core finance course in the Full-Time MBA programme.

Excellent, made the subject practical.......1999-02-22

The book was excelleant, but I never knew if the answers I provided were correct, is there no model answers on the case studies that one could check one's answers against. I am a final year MBA student in South Africa with no real previous Finance experience and this book really assisted me in gaining a practical understanding. Please let me know about model answers

Community Reinvestment Performance: Making Cra Work for Banks, Communities and Regulators

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Community Reinvestment Performance: Making Cra Work for Banks, Communities and Regulators
Kenneth H. Thomas
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Community Reinvestment Performance is an in-depth analysis of one of banking's most controversial regulations that can help readers improve their CRA performance! Author Kenneth Thomas has studies the methods of regulators and examiners as well as successful (and not-so-successful) banks across the country. The end result is a real-world guide to CRA assessment and performance. Illustrated with case studies and success stories, is an invaluable resource guide of what to do and what to avoid to improve a bank's CRA rating. With Community Reinvestment Performance readers will: Learn the real issues that affect your CRA ratings; Study actual case histories from the best-and worst-banks in the country; Assess whether they have been fairly rated and how their competition rates; Receive recommendations on what to do in their own CRA program.

Escalation in Decision-Making: The Tragedy of Taurus

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Escalation in Decision-Making: The Tragedy of Taurus
Helga Drummond
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Getting organizations going is one thing. Stopping them is another. This book examines how and why organizations become trapped in disastrous decisions. The focal point is Project Taurus, an IT venture commissioned by the London Stock Exchange and supported by numerous City Institutions. Taurus was intended to transform London's antiquated manual share settlement procedures into a state of the art electronic system that would be the envy of the world. The project collapsed after three year's intensive work and investments totalling almost L500 million. This book is an in depth study of escalation in decision making. The author has interviewed a number of people who played a key role and presents a most readable account of what actually happened. At the same time she sets the case in the broader literature of decision making.

Investing in Information Technology: Managing the Decision-Making Process (The Ibm Mcgraw-Hill)

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Investing in Information Technology: Managing the Decision-Making Process (The Ibm Mcgraw-Hill)
Geoff Hogbin , and David V. Thomas
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Investing their company's precious resources in information technology (IT) just got easier for today's fiscally-conscious business and financial managers. Combining proven approaches drawn from internal processes of IBM with their own successful application planning and consulting experience, the authors spell out a complete five-stage IT decision-making process. Moreover, they share strategies for aligning IT with operational planning and purchasing guidelines from management consultants.

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