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(More customer reviews)Pete O'Dell has really hit the mark with his new book. A day doesn't go past when an executive asks members of our team how they should think about their IT design and strategy with respect to data, information, and knowledge about their business, customers and suppliers. O'Dell's book provides an easy to read and understand analysis of why the next wave is data interoperability...everyone needs to understand what the concept is and how it will transform every industry... especially the industry they compete in. Bill Lang, Author "Scores on the Board - The 5 Part System for Building Skills, teams and Businesses" and CEO Bill Lang International - Business Improvement Solutions.Scores on the Board: The 5-Part System for Building Skills, Teams and Businesses (J-B Foreign Imprint Series - Australia)
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Silver Bullets isn't about understanding the technology of standard, interoperable data; it's about why the technology is important and how you can use it.If you care about effective operations, no matter your job title, this book is for you.Interoperable data is a major game changer for business and information technology, government and commercial, national and international organizations. This book will let you make it happen, versus wondering what happened and how you were left behind.As Frederick Brooks famously noted in The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, there is no single-approach solution - no Silver Bullet - that delivers significant improvements in productivity, reliability, or simplicity. But in Silver Bullets, Pete O'Dell shows how a single concept - standardized data interoperability - yields improvements in any industry to which it is applied.O'Dell builds his case by reviewing the past. From the Great Wall of China to shipping containers, from punched cards to the VISA network, standardization has fueled enormous breakthroughs. O'Dell investigates current data standardization including XML and the Common Alerting Protocol, using case studies to illustrate success stories ranging from homeland defense to diabetes management.Finally, O'Dell offers practical suggestions on how to get started with interoperable data and points to emerging leaders in commercial, governmental and not-for-profit fields.This accessible, plain-spoken book is full of parables, anecdotes and stories, delivering humor as well as insight. Reading it enables you to make practical decisions about your organization's future and growth. Silver Bullets shines a clear light into your inoperable future.--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
