Books

The New Small

A small seafood restaurant attracts new customers with virtually no marketing budget. A four-person iPad case manufacturer generates more than $1M in revenue in four months with only four employees. A voice-over company is able to connect thousands of artists with opportunities, all without expensive hardware and software. A law firm increases access to key information while dramatically reducing technology-related costs and risks.

And these four companies are hardly unique. A new breed of small businesses is using Software as a Service (SaaS), free and open source software, social media and networks, mobility, cloud computing, and other emerging technologies to do things simply not possible even five years ago.

In The New Small: How a New Breed Of Small Businesses is Harnessing the Power of Emerging Technologies, you’ll discover how these companies creatively and intelligently use technology to reach new customers, reduce costs, increase internal collaboration and communication, and create flexible work environments. (Note that I’ve launched a separate site for the book.)

The Next Wave of Technologies

My second book is about organizations’ efforts to adopt newer technologies such as open source, SaaS, clouds, mobility BI, open source, Agile, and SOA. Preview book in Google Books.

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Why New Systems Fail

My first book exposes the root causes of system failures and what organizations can do to avoid them. The new edition of the book is a marked improvement over its predecessor and contains more than 70 new pages.

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• Preface to New Edition
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