This guide for IT professionals presents a comprehensive strategy for value chain infrastructure planning. Throughout the text, e- business consultants Robertson and Sribar (of META Group) discuss best practices for dealing with architecture and technology issues within the infrastructure. Topics include, for example, the benefits of adaptive infrastructure services; key patterns for e-business; encryption hardware; and physical, functional, and management components. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Enriching the Value Chain: Infrastructure Strategies Beyond the Enterprise

ROBERTSON, Bruce

Sribar, Valentin

Business & Money

Addison-Wesley

Suggests a flexible approach to managing a company's computer infrastructure that anticipates change and growth. The authors discuss strategies for categorizing the component technologies into layers, grouping the components into common patterns, designing shared infrastructure services, methods for infrastructure planning, organizing a planning team, and creating a proposal for funding. An appendix lists examples of the primary component technologies. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The Adaptive Enterprise: It Infrastructure Strategies to Manage Change and Enable Growth

The agile business embraces change rapidly and gracefully. To be ready, the business needs an infrastructure that supports change without disruption or excessive cost. An adaptive infrastructure enables the business to cope with unforeseen circumstances and competitive demands. To build, use, and manage adaptive enterprise solutions, you need an infrastructure planning process that supports new and growing business initiatives. The strategies and processes described in this book will give you clear and practical ways to guide your company through Internet-induced change: 
<ul>
<li>Plan your infrastructure end to end. This book provides a number of successful models to help you plan efficiently and effectively, to show you how to implement an adaptive enterprise infrastructure. </li>
<li>Design an adaptive infrastructure. This book explains the fundamental concepts of adaptive infrastructure and explains how to address the major opportunities and challenges you will face. </li>
<li>Execute a reuse strategy. This book tells you how to identify key infrastructure patterns within your organization, and how to use those patterns to derive reusable adaptive infrastructure services. </li>
<li>Address people, processes, and technology. You can make great technology choices, but without the right people and processes, your technology choices won¡¦t bring the success that you expect. </li>
<li>Achieve an optimal balance between immediate needs and long-term goals. You must be able to change what you are doing while you are still doing it. This book shows you how to attain the balance needed to transform while you are performing. </li>
</ul>

Adaptive Enterprise, The: IT Infrastructure Strategies to Manage Change and Enable Growth (IT Best Practices series)

Computers & Technology

Intel Pr

How do forward-thinking IT professionals organize infrastructure and staff to meet the challenges of e-Business value chain initiatives head-on? Enriching the Value Chain gives you the answers: 
<ul>
<li>Strategic advice for mapping business drivers to a set of fundamental patterns and planning models. </li>
<li>A way to organize e-Business infrastructure with your suppliers, trading partners, and customers. </li>
<li>How to run e-Business infrastructure services for the long term with high quality. </li>
<li>How to make applications become easier, more cost-effective, and quicker to integrate. </li>
</ul> Bruce Robertson and Valentin Sribar also are the authors of The Adaptive Enterprise. Picking up where that books leaves off, this companion volume tells you how to achieve success in value chain infrastructure planning.

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Adaptive Enterprise, The: IT Infrastructure Strategies to Manage Change and Enable Growth (IT Best Practices series)

Enriching the Value Chain: Infrastructure Strategies Beyond the Enterprise (IT Best Practices series)