A searching look into the evolving world of IT enterprises, despite unfortunately hyper-technical language.
An attempt to prepare organizations for a new business culture of rapid change.
Companies once insulated themselves from the disruptions wrought by sudden change; now, the zeitgeist encourages businesses to embrace such opportunities for salutary transformation. In his debut effort, Apte says that information technology ecosystems are key to any organization’s ability to respond to change—and therefore, integral to future success. He devises a perspective that he calls “transformative enterprise architecture” or “TEA,” through which one can interpret an IT system’s viability. The author’s considerations are impressively synoptic, even exhaustive, as he covers decision-making processes, data models, value management, and even the significance of visual modeling. The primary, guiding principle of the study seems to be the necessity of a “holistic” analysis that considers all components of an IT ecosystem as interdependent. Apte is at his best when discussing the range of elements that one must address when building strong IT structures, and their relationships to one another. He also understands that adaptability must be combined with “resiliency,” or durability in the face of problems. The book largely lacks the specificity of a how-to manual; as such, it’s more of a reflection on fashioning a blueprint than it is a blueprint itself. Also, the prose can be frustratingly bloodless and jargon-laden, as is often the case with contemporary business books. The point underneath this gratuitous convolution, for example, is almost comically banal: “By using a simple heuristic scale between one and four, TEA is able to represent the determination of urgency, which makes the formalization of transformation urgency feasible.” That said, patient readers will still find the book to be full of timely, thoughtful reflections.
A searching look into the evolving world of IT enterprises, despite unfortunately hyper-technical language.Pub Date: Dec. 24, 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4912-3156-2
Page Count: 420
Publisher: CreateSpace
Review Posted Online: Feb. 1, 2016
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis...
Privately published by Strunk of Cornell in 1918 and revised by his student E. B. White in 1959, that "little book" is back again with more White updatings.
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis (whoops — "A bankrupt expression") a unique guide (which means "without like or equal").Pub Date: May 15, 1972
ISBN: 0205632645
Page Count: 105
Publisher: Macmillan
Review Posted Online: Oct. 28, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1972
This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)
Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996
ISBN: 0-15-100227-4
Page Count: 136
Publisher: Harcourt
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996
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