Riding the Tiger

Ashley Thomson is a full librarian at Laurentian University and co-editor or co-author of nine books, most recently Margaret Atwood: A Reference Guide, 1988-2005.

Harvey Gellman was the first Canadian to receive a Ph.D. in computer
science (1951). He is now working as a consultant, as are his two
co-authors. In this book, they maintain that any organization that wants
to manage its computer services successfully should first step back and
figure out how computers fit into the organization’s objectives. An
organization’s CEO must take a personal interest in information
management and must ensure that policies to manage information
technology are in place. The authors also describe how an organization
should plan and execute an automation project. Organizations that fail
to inform themselves fully about information technology, they warn, will
suffer the consequences. Points are effectively illustrated by means of
a running case study that appears at the end of each chapter of this
practical and user-friendly book.