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    Why IT Organisations Fail: Can You Handle the Truth?: Challenging Conventional Wisdoms for Managing IT Services
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    Why IT Organisations Fail: Can You Handle the Truth?: Challenging Conventional Wisdoms for Managing IT Services

    By Gerry Flanagan

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    Why IT Organisations Fail: Can You Handle the Truth is a unique book providing candid and sometimes disturbing insights into the management of IT services. The twelve chapters examine the capabilities required to manage IT services and why conventional IT management wisdoms are the root cause of poor IT service delivery.

    Why IT Organisations Fail: Can You Handle the Truth is challenging, inspiring, critical, praising, and sometimes humourous but always informative. It is a must-read for everyone who works in the IT industry. You don’t need to agree with its views, but you do need to read them. They will change the way you think about IT services.

    The world is changing for IT organisations. Cloud technologies, everything-as-a-service, social media, and the sophistication of the customers are driving this change. IT organisations who don’t recognise the need to change are quickly becoming legacy IT organisations...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu Publishing Services
    Release dateDec 1, 2016
    ISBN9781483456485
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