Who needs a book about a freely down-loadable computer operating system?  If you manage a company or if you’re a part of an Information Technology (IT) decision-making team, then you need to understand the impact of Linux on your organization, your industry, and your competition.  If you’re like most executives, you’re part of a technology purchasing committee. Making computer technology decisions has never been easy. You have to slog through the marketing hype and computer jargon to separate the sales-copy promises from the software reality.  In this quick-reading book, business author and engineer Mark S. A. Smith de-mystifies the lingo and discusses what you need to know about Linux to make informed business decisions. With the ideas in this book, you'll know what questions to ask and what issues to examine when your IT director considers Linux for your company.  If you’re a CEO, COO, President, or Owner – How is Linux good for your opera-tion? What does it mean to your operation and your customers? If it’s going to give you an edge in the market, exactly how is that going to happen? How do you direct the people who will lead the project?  If you’re a CFO or VP of Finance – Is Linux good for corporate compliance and your cash flow? Where does it fit into current regu-lations?  If you’re a CIO, CTO, or IT Manager – Is Linux good for your computing infrastructure? How do you evaluate Linux? What should you look for in a Linux vendor? What about security?  This book was written with the non-technical manager in mind; it won’t dig very deep into the technology. So, even if you’re an executive with limited technical background, this book will guide you on the questions to ask and the issues to examine when your technology team considers Linux for your company.

Linux in the Boardroom: How Linux is Changing Corporate Computing and What Executives Need to Know and Do About it

Smith, Mark S.A.

Outsource Channel Executives, Inc

Who needs a book about a freely down-loadable computer operating system? If you manage a company or if you’re a part of an Information Technology (IT) decision-making team, then you need to understand the impact of Linux on your organization, your industry, and your competition. If you’re like most executives, you’re part of a technology purchasing committee. Making computer technology decisions has never been easy. You have to slog through the marketing hype and computer jargon to separate the sales-copy promises from the software reality. In this quick-reading book, business author and engineer Mark S. A. Smith de-mystifies the lingo and discusses what you need to know about Linux to make informed business decisions. With the ideas in this book, you'll know what questions to ask and what issues to examine when your IT director considers Linux for your company. If you’re a CEO, COO, President, or Owner – How is Linux good for your opera-tion? What does it mean to your operation and your customers? If it’s going to give you an edge in the market, exactly how is that going to happen? How do you direct the people who will lead the project? If you’re a CFO or VP of Finance – Is Linux good for corporate compliance and your cash flow? Where does it fit into current regu-lations? If you’re a CIO, CTO, or IT Manager – Is Linux good for your computing infrastructure? How do you evaluate Linux? What should you look for in a Linux vendor? What about security? This book was written with the non-technical manager in mind; it won’t dig very deep into the technology. So, even if you’re an executive with limited technical background, this book will guide you on the questions to ask and the issues to examine when your technology team considers Linux for your company.

Who needs a book about security? More small businesses are attacked than homes. Seventy percent of corporate break-ins are motivated by money or political reasons. The other 30 percent are random attacks to grab what ever unsecured assets are available and cash in on your hard work. Sadly, more than half of the successful attacks on businesses come from disgruntled employees, fired staff, temporary workers, and opportunists. The rest comes from organized criminals aiming to clean you out. These perpetrators want to pilfer your proprietary property, cheat your customers, hinder your employees, and attack the heart of your business – your information systems and your vital physical assets. The good news is that security technology is more affordable and more reliable then ever. The bad news is that the bad guys are more clever and vicious then ever. This book is about protecting your resources, your infrastructure, and your customers. If you’re going to make smart decisions, you need to get answers to these security questions: If you’re a CEO, COO, President, or Owner – What are the threats to your organization? What are the risks and the costs of these threats? How are you personally liable? What would happen if critical business information or assets were compromised? How do you direct the people who will lead your security efforts? If you’re a CFO or VP of Finance – What is the impact of security on corporate compliance and your cash flow? What do regulations demand from you? At what cost is it worth it? If you’re a CIO, CTO, or IT Manager – What are the risks to your computing infrastructure? How do you evaluate security vendors and solutions? What should you look for in a security vendor? How do you protect yourself and your organization? This book was written with the non-technical manager in mind; it won’t dig very deep into the technology. So, even if you’re an executive with limited technical background, this book will guide you on the questions to ask and the issues to examine when your technology team considers security for your company.

Security in the Boardroom: The Impact of Physical & Network Security on Corporations and What Executives Need to Know and Do About It

Business & Money

Mark S.A. Smith

Management & Leadership

Security in the Boardroom: The Attack on Business and What Executives Need to Know and Do About it. By Mark S.A. Smith Who needs a book about security? More small businesses are attacked than homes. Seventy percent of corporate break-ins are motivated by money or political reasons. The other 30 percent are random attacks to grab what ever unsecured assets are available and cash in on your hard work. Sadly, more than half of the successful attacks on businesses come from disgruntled employees, fired staff, temporary workers, and opportunists. The rest comes from organized criminals aiming to clean you out. These perpetrators want to pilfer your proprietary property, cheat your customers, hinder your employees, and attack the heart of your business - your information systems and your vital physical assets. The good news is that security technology is more affordable and more reliable then ever. The bad news is that the bad guys are more clever and vicious then ever. This book is about protecting your resources, your infrastructure, and your customers. If you're going to make smart decisions, you need to get answers to these security questions: If you're a CEO, COO, President, or Owner - What are the threats to your organization? What are the risks and the costs of these threats? What would happen if critical business information or assets were compromised? How do you direct the people who will lead your security efforts? If you're a CFO or VP of Finance - What is the impact of security on corporate compliance and your cash flow? What do regulations demand from you? At what cost is it worth it? If you're a CIO, CTO, or IT Manager - What are the risks to your computing infrastructure? How do you evaluate security vendors and solutions? What should you look for in a security vendor? How do you protect yourself and your organization? This book was written with the non-technical manager in mind; it won't dig very deep into the technology. So, even if you're an executive with limited technical background, this book will guide you on the questions to ask and the issues to examine when your technology team considers security for your company. Mark S.A. Smith is an electrical engineer, computer programmer, hardware salesman, software marketer, and author. Mark focuses on how to rapidly create sound business decisions in a fast-paced business world. He delivers innovative business strategies for entrepreneurial thinkers, executives, and sales professionals. Mark's an expert in creating instantly implementable tactics to achieve real business success. Mark authored the critically-acclaimed Linux in the Boardroom: How Linux is Changing Corporate Computing and What Executives Need to Know and Do About It. He co-authored business best-sellers Guerrilla Trade Show Selling, Guerrilla TeleSelling, and Guerrilla Negotiating. Mark regularly appears at top industry events as a speaker, panel moderator, or emcee.

Security in the Boardroom

From MSP to BSP: Pivot from Managed Services Provider to Business Services Provider to Profit from I.T. Disruption
As the world moves to mobile devices, the cloud, and everything-as-a-Service (XaaS), Managed Services Providers (MSPs) become irrelevant. How can you provide managed services when there's nothing left in the data center to manage?
In this pragmatic discourse about the changing role of technology business partners, you learn why this trend accelerates and how to pivot to be a Business Services Provider (BSP), where you work with C-level business executives to implement their roadmap by delivering foresight, management, and protection irrespective of the location or ownership of the technology that runs their company.

From Msp to Bsp: Pivot to Profit from It Disruption

Smith, Administrative Officer Mark

Marketing & Sales

Amid perpetual upheavals and accelerating world changes, we transition from the Experience Economy where buyers chose memorable outcomes to the Transformational Economy where buyers choose meaningful, authentic, and socially responsible outcomes. 
Because your customers want to become a better version of themselves, your company must become a better version of itself. 
This book's premise: the future belongs to the nimble; those able to resiliently innovate to deliver meaningful goods and services that customers seek. Being nimble makes demands beyond the traditional corporate structure and leadership strategy's ability to deliver. 
This book is your essential bridge from the conventional business approaches you used to get where you are today, to flourishing in a Transformational Economy as a socially responsible business. 
In it, we'll provide you with a fresh look at the root causes that limit leadership teams and offers overdue solutions that can address these causes in today's chronically volatile business environment. 
Everything you'll read and consider in this book centers on bringing Nimbility to your organization. 
Nimbility is the combination of high resilience and high innovation that are necessary attributes for profiting from upheavals. 
Innovation is your capacity to increase the desirability, utility, and value of a product, whether it's goods or services. Resilience is your ability to recover from stress and unplanned impacts. 
The obvious value of innovation is competitive performance, protecting and increasing profit margins, and corporate sustainability in a changing market. It's also way more fun. Innovation is set by culture and team rewards for looking for better ways to bring more value to the team, customers, stakeholders, and the planet. 
A key value of resilience is risk reduction because it allows rapid recovery from an undesired state, reducing the cost of risk, and therefore contributing to lowered risk. Resilience is set by systems and policies that can quickly respond to change, with the necessary resources to absorb shocks and quickly recover. 
Nimbility is inherently lower risk, much lower than other options, making conventional risk-taking and innovation much safer from a career and corporate perspective. 
We apply the Nimbility Matrix to both your organization and the individuals involved when assessing a situation. For your organization, we look at culture, systems, procedures, processes, and policies to identify how your business rules constrain or enable resilience, and limit or foster innovation. When considering individuals, we examine their behaviors as well as their attitudes and temperaments to understand their Nimbility.

The Nimble C-Suite: How to Align the Diverse Strengths of Your Executive Team to Predictably Deliver Extraordinary Outcomes in a Transformational Economy. (The Nimbility Library)

Gruder, Dr David

The Nimble Company\nA Proactive, Socially Responsible Framework for Driving Sustained Profits and Growth in a Chronically Chaotic World.\nAmid perpetual upheavals and accelerating world changes, we transition from the Experience Economy where buyers chose memorable outcomes to the Transformational Economy where buyers choose meaningful, authentic, and socially responsible outcomes. 
Because your customers want to become a better version of themselves, your company must become a better version of itself. 
This book's premise: the future belongs to the nimble, those able to resiliently innovate to deliver meaningful goods and services that customers seek. Being nimble makes demands on your company that go beyond traditional business strategies, tactics, and company culture. 
This book takes a fresh look at the root causes of upheavals and offers pragmatic solutions that can address these causes in today's chronically volatile business environment.

The Nimble Company: A Proactive, Socially Responsible Framework for Driving Sustained Profits and Growth in a Chronically Chaotic World (The Nimbility Library)

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Linux in the Boardroom: How Linux is Changing Corporate Computing and What Executives Need to Know and Do About it

Linux in the Boardroom: How Linux is Changing Corporate Computing and What Executives Need to Know and Do About it

Security in the Boardroom: The Impact of Physical & Network Security on Corporations and What Executives Need to Know and Do About It

Security in the Boardroom

From Msp to Bsp: Pivot to Profit from It Disruption

The Nimble C-Suite: How to Align the Diverse Strengths of Your Executive Team to Predictably Deliver Extraordinary Outcomes in a Transformational Economy. (The Nimbility Library)

The Nimble Company: A Proactive, Socially Responsible Framework for Driving Sustained Profits and Growth in a Chronically Chaotic World (The Nimbility Library)