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The Value of Information: Are your systems working for you-or are you working for your systems? - Couverture rigide

Kumar, Hari Hara

 
9781463009250: The Value of Information: Are your systems working for you-or are you working for your systems?

Synopsis

Data rich. Information poor. We have more data than at any point in human history. And most organizations have never been more confused. The problem isn't just the data. We've built systems that serve themselves rather than the people who depend on them. We've let budget cycles replace imagination, politics replace architecture, software upgrades pretend to be genuine transformation. The result is a widening gap between the data we have and the decisions we can actually make with it. This is a practitioner's reckoning with that gap. Drawing on decades at the intersection of business and technology - across retail, financial services, media, manufacturing, and consulting - Hari Hara Kumar offers something rare: a book that is neither a technical manual nor an executive platitude. It is a working blueprint. A playbook for anyone who has ever sat in a room watching a good idea get diluted into irrelevance, and wondered whether there was a better way. There is. It begins with a simple question - Why? - and builds from there: through context diagrams and use cases, through the human-machine boundary and the Plateau of Compromise, through technology strategy and enterprise architecture as philosophies of coherence rather than a tax on progress. Kumar shows how the journey from data to wisdom is not a linear climb but a labyrinthine one. The organizations that navigate it well share three things: they design with intent, measure what matters, and never lose sight of the people the systems are meant to serve. This is a book about technology. It is also a book about leadership, meaning, and the cost of getting things wrong. The ivory tower is where knowledge goes to die. the value of information is a way out.

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