The book contains a series of short stories each representing an IT issue that the character is struggling to conquer. The central theories underlying the narratives mirror the practices that must be put into place to successfully implement grid computing. It emphasizes the management of not only the systems, but the relationships between the people that build and support them. The chapters are as follows: (1) Relationship Management, (2) Virtualization, (3) Distributed Resources, (4) Complexity, (5) Identity, (6) Interfaces, (7) Enterprise Architecture, (8) Change, (9) Insubordination is an Asset, (10) Building Blocks/Objects, (11) Diffusion (The Theory of Oblique Services) & Search, (12) Intellectual Property, (13) The Network of Networks & The Shared Secret, (14) Complexity/Simplicity, (15) Orchestration, (16) Professor’s Essay: The Network as Narrative Form, (17) Change, (18) Sustainable Knowledge, (19) Service Oriented Enterprise & Governance/DM Frameworks, (20) Innovation/Productivity & Intellectual Property, (21) Venture Financing, (22) Abstraction/The New Desktop/Workplace, (23) We Need a New Vocabulary, (24) We Need a New Politic.
Book Details:
- Author: Stuart Robbins
- ISBN: 9780470047507
- Year Published: 2006
- Pages: 384
- BISAC: BUS001000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Accounting / General
About the Book and Topic:
The book contains a series of short stories each representing an IT issue that the character is struggling to conquer. The central theories underlying the narratives mirror the practices that must be put into place to successfully implement grid computing. It emphasizes the management of not only the systems, but the relationships between the people that build and support them. The chapters are as follows: (1) Relationship Management, (2) Virtualization, (3) Distributed Resources, (4) Complexity, (5) Identity, (6) Interfaces, (7) Enterprise Architecture, (8) Change, (9) Insubordination is an Asset, (10) Building Blocks/Objects, (11) Diffusion (The Theory of Oblique Services) & Search, (12) Intellectual Property, (13) The Network of Networks & The Shared Secret, (14) Complexity/Simplicity, (15) Orchestration, (16) Professor’s Essay: The Network as Narrative Form, (17) Change, (18) Sustainable Knowledge, (19) Service Oriented Enterprise & Governance/DM Frameworks, (20) Innovation/Productivity & Intellectual Property, (21) Venture Financing, (22) Abstraction/The New Desktop/Workplace, (23) We Need a New Vocabulary, (24) We Need a New Politic.
Grid computing (or the use of a computational grid) is applying the resources of many computers in a network to a single problem at the same time–usually to a scientific or technical problem that requires a great number of computer processing cycles or access to large amounts of data. This book is a blend of fiction and analysis that identifies the primary elements of grid computing in a manner that allows the reader to easily understand them. The authors premise is that computer networks are a mirror of ourselves. They are as scattered or logical as the people who construct them. To correct these inadequacies, we cannot merely cover over this mirror or replace it, but rather accept the honesty of what we see, and begin the more complicated work of changing ourselves in order to improve our information systems.
AUTHOR PLATFORM: Stuart Robbins is founder and Executive Director of the CIO Collective which provides strategic guidance to companies such as Yahoo and Macromedia. He serves on the CIO Advisory Boards for Morgan Stanley, Netscaler, Encentuate, and CIO Insight. CIO Insight (8,000 subscribers) will be promoting this book. Robbins is also a contributing columnist to the quarterly academic journal (ISM Journal). He has published numerous technical papers and speaks at professional conferences sponsored by Morgan Stanley, The Economist, Business Week, the World Bank Group, and Ziff Davis Media. ENDORSEMENTS from leading figures in the high-tech and IT communities, including Sean Moriarty, the COO of Ticketmaster; Mohamed Muhsin, VP and CIO of The World Bank; Steve Yatko, Head of IT R and Atefeh Riazi, Worldwide CIO, Ogilvy & Mather. FOREWORDS: There will be two forewords to this book. One will be written by the bestselling author Geoffrey Moore (Crossing the Chasm). His work will represent the technical aspect of this book. The other foreword will be written by Thornton May one of the premier “communicators” in the information technology industry. This foreword will represent the fictional aspect of this work.
About the Author
Stuart Robbins (Oakland, CA) is Founder and Executive Director of the CIO Collective which provides strategic guidance to both established and emerging organizations in both the for-profit and non-profit sectors. Clients include Yahoo and Macromedia, as well as The World Bank and Federal CIO Council. He serves on the CIO Advisory Boards for Morgan Stanley, Netscaler, Encentuate, and CIO Insight. Stuart has held senior IT management positions at Cadence Design Systems, Synopsys Corporation, Documentum, and Jamcracker. He spends most of his time on the road consulting and lecturing, including a seven-city tour of executive roundtables for Ziff Davis Media and Novell. He is a contributing author to CIO Wisdom: The Best of Silicon Valley (Prentice Hall) and is a regular columnist and member of the Editorial Board for the ISM Journal, a quarterly academic magazine published by Auerback Publications.