The Chief Architect must maintain an up-to-date understanding of a wide range topics both business and technical. In association with Amazon.com Books we are pleased to present this selection of books from the Chief Architect's Bookshelf. We've picked outstanding books to support your most effective and inspired work - from Business Design and Innovation to the nuts and bolts of Technical Architecture. Clicking a title link takes you right to a page where you can order that book at a discount of 20% to 30% off the list price.

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Value Migration : How to Think Several Moves Ahead of the Competition by Adrian J. Slywotzky

Slywotzky, an international strategy consultant, looks at new, aggressive companies such as Microsoft, Nucor, and Starbucks, and their superior business design methods. He charts the path of Value Migration from obsolete to new business designs, identifying seven patterns of Value Migration. He demonstrates a step-by-step method for evaluating any company's situation, and reveals specific strategic tools for recognizing the patterns of shifting value. For business owners and managers. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Competing for the Future by Gary Hamel, C.K. Prahalad

In Competing for the Future, the authors show executives how to get their company off the restructuring and reengineering treadmill and onto the elusive path of corporate revitalization, develop the industry foresight necessary to proactively shape industry evolution, establish a truly stretching strategic intent and mobilize the entire organization in its pursuit, discover ways of leveraging resources that will enable the company to attain heroic goals despite resource constraints, develop a point of view on which core competencies can be built for the future, and extend the boundaries of corporate imagination and revitalize the process of new business creation.

The Balanced Scorecard : Translating Strategy into Action by Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton

The author, Robert S. Kaplan (rkaplan@hbs.edu) , 11/30/96: How to use measurement systems to implement strategy. We originally developed the Balanced Scorecard to improve performance measurement systems. The Balanced Scorecard retains financial measures, such as return-on-capital-employed and economic value added, and supplements these with new measures on value creation for customers, enhancement of internal processes, including innovation, to deliver desired value propositions to targeted customers, and the creation of capabilities in employees and systems. As companies developed and used their Balanced Scorecard, they soon made it the centerpiece of their management systems. Innovating companies today are using their Balanced Scorecards to (1) gain consensus and clarity about their strategic objectives, (2) communicate strategic objectives to business units, departments, teams, and individuals, (3) align strategic planning, resource allocation and budgeting processes, and, (4) obtain feedback and learn about the effectiveness of their strategic plan and its implementation. The book describes, in detail, the construction and use of the Balanced Scorecard as a strategic management system. Detailed case studies of how Chemical Bank, Mobil, and United Way of Southeastern New England are using their Balanced Scorecards can be obtained from Harvard Business School Publishing (1-800-988-0886).

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ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE - GENERAL /HIGHLEVEL

Enterprise Architecture Planning : Developing a Blueprint for Data, Applications and Technology by Steven H. Spewak, Steven C. Hill / Paperback / Published 1993

More advanced than traditional system planning approaches, Enterprise Architecture Planning (EAP) outlines a stable business model independent of organizational boundaries, systems and procedures; defines data before applications; and allows data to determine the sequence for implementing application systems. This invaluable book offers a common-sense approach to EAP and includes numerous examples of architectures, procedures, checklists and useful guidelines.

Building Enterprise Information Architectures : Reengineering Information Systems (Hewlett-Packard Professional Books) by Melissa A. Cook

Written for IS and corporate management, CIOs, and consultants, this guide provides a practical, easy-to-use framework for developing and implementing an enterprise information architecture aligned with business requirements. Users will learn to eliminate redundancy, control costs, and deploy new technology in an orderly way.

Data Stores, Data Warehousing, and the Zachman Framework : Managing Enterprise Knowledge (McGraw-Hill Series on Data Warehousing and Data Management) by William H. Inmon, et al

The Zachman Framework is a framework to organize and analyze data so it can be turned into a source of knowledge. Here is the first and last word on this hot topic from the inventors of the framework. The text explains how companies can apply this technology to their own data warehouses and stores.

The Art of Strategic Planning for Information Technology : Crafting Strategy for the 90s by Bernard H. Boar

Existing corporate computing is rapidly changing from mainframe facilities to networked. Designed for information managers using new technologies within a corporate setting, this book shows how to assess, develop, execute, and administer successful systems strategies for both immediate and long-term benefit.

Information Systems Architecture : Development in the 90's ~ Ships in 2-3 days

Jeffrey H. Caplan, W. H. Inmon / Hardcover / Published 1993
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Describes how information engineering and architecture are really used to build and maintain systems. The authors start by reviewing the evolution of systems development and maintenance. They provide a description of a target architecture that features the data warehouse. They address major design issues related to the data warehouse, including the differences between operational and decision support processing, data summarization and granularity, the system of record, and metadata management, and approaches for using client/server processing and parallel technology. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or

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Architecture of Integrated Information Systems : Foundations of Enterprise Modelling

August-Wilhelm Scheer / Hardcover / Published 1992
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Enterprise Architecture Planning

Paperback / Published 1992
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Enterprise Architecture Planning, 2nd ed.

Steven H. Spewak / Paperback / Published 1999
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The Purdue Enterprise Reference Architecture

T.J. Williams / Paperback / Published 1992
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The Architecture and Planning of Enterprise-Wide Information Management Systems

Andrew Targowski / Published 1989
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