The Adventures of an IT Leader, Updated Edition with a New Preface by the Authors
by Robert D. Austin, Shannon O'Donnell, Richard L. Nolan
PREFACE
Since its publication in 2009, The Adventures of an IT Leader has been widely embraced, both by managers as a business book and by professors and students as a text used in university classes. At last report, more than 440 universities in more than 35 countries have adopted the book or some part of it in their IT management curriculum, and it has been translated into Japanese and Russian. We have been pleased with reviews of the book from media like the Wall Street Journal and from reader reviews on Amazon. It has played well in the corporate arena too: excerpts were published online by www.cio.com, and IT executives have weighed in to acknowledge its relevance to practice. An ongoing theme in many of the reviews suggests that the story ...