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Chapter 1: Success Depends on Innovation and Innovation Depends on Information Technology
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The top five crucial business goals for 2008 are based on a poll of 353 C-level executives on the BusinessWeek Market Advisory Board. The poll was part of BusinessWeek Research Services' ongoing series of C-level executive surveys.
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Fred Brooks's classic The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering was originally published in 1975. Addison-Wesley Professional issued an anniversary edition in 1995. This anniversary edition includes the "No Silver Bullet" article, which was originally published in Proceedings of the IFIP Tenth World Computing Conference, pp. 1069–1076, 1986.
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Scott Rosenberg, Dreaming in Code (New York: Crown Publishers, 2007).
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The description of the Los Angeles Unified School District's payroll system debacle is from Joel Rubin's "Payroll System Beset from Day 1" article, which appeared in the Los Angeles Times on February 11, 2008 (www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-payroll11feb11,1,1699379.story).
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The comment from Marla Eby was quoted by Michael Krigsman in an October 2007 post on ZDNet (http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=431). Krigsman is CEO of Asuret, Inc., a software and consulting company dedicated to reducing software implementation failures.
Chapter 2: Who Is Driving Your IT Strategy?
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