Doing It Right

Few Information Technology leaders understand the full range of I/T issues, from basic technology to business strategy. One of them, Harold Lorin, has written a definitive guide for the I/T decision maker, the technologist, and the system developer. "Doing IT Right" is a tour de force based on Lorin's prodigious knowledge of the industry derived from years of involvement with development and marketing at IBM and other systems houses, and from consulting in a variety of environments. "Doing IT Right" explains fundamental issues of hardware and software structures; it illuminates central issues of networking and encapsulates the essence of client/server computing; its coverage of costing, risk assessment, and due diligence in making computing decisions is unique; its presentation of the concepts and issues of object orientation was considered by the managers at an IBM development laboratory to be "unique and more informing than fifteen other OO presentations put together." Hal Lorin is a principal at the Manticore Consultancy and a professor at Hofstra University. He has been the ranking Consultant Member of the IBM Systems Research Institute