 Robert
Barton:
A strategic
management consultant with CSC Switzerland GmbH, author Robert
Barton’s Global
IT Management: A Practical Approach draws on his extensive
professional IT experience throughout Europe, including three
years as head of global IT strategy, architecture and standards
at Novartis Pharma, a leading global pharmaceuticals corporation.
Les Bate:
Perl Fast & Easy Web Development provides guidance on Web development using practical extraction and reporting language (Perl), and understanding its hardware and software requirements. Since 1997, Perl has evolved into a commonly used default Web language. Bate, Senior Analyst Programmer, wrote this "crash course" to bring together everything needed to get started in Perl Web development.
Elfriede
Dustin:
As assistant director of integration,
test and deployment practices at CSC, Elfriede Dustin has observed
and implemented successful and efficient testing programs.
In her book Effective
Software Testing, Dustin examines the role the testing
program plays as a "quality gate" before software
passes from the engineering environment to the real world.
The book focuses on both the mechanics of testing and the surrounding
tasks required of a testing program.
David Farneti:
Selling With Honor: Achieving Success Without Selling Your Soul explores the art of the sale, as well as the spiritual well-being of the salesperson. David Farneti, a CSC account executive, wrote this book based on years of experience as a stockbroker, business owner, consultant and salesperson. It provides valuable advice on closing the deal without losing your honor, integrity and self-respect.
Michael
Hammer and James Champy:
This CSC duo is most celebrated for Reengineering
the Corporation, the pioneering book that started the
reengineering wave. The book spent one year on the New
York Times bestseller list and has sold more than 25 million
copies. The authors have individually written dozens of other
business best sellers.
Johnny Long:
In his book, Google Hacking for Penetration Testers, CSC security expert Johnny Long details a potentially destructive hacking method that targets everyday Internet users and shows security practitioners how to protect their clients from Google hacking. The CD-based Penetration Tester's Open Source Toolkit, co-written by Long and James Foster, deputy director for CSC's Global Security Solutions group, includes case studies, guidelines and more than 300 of the most effective and commonly used open source attack and penetration testing tools.
Patrick
Molineux:
An expert in customer relationship management,
CSC author Patrick Molineux is best known for his book, Exploiting
CRM, Connecting With Customers, where he proposes
that businesses are no longer simply managing relationships
with customers—customers are managing relationships with
businesses.
David Moschella:
David Moschella, global research director for CSC in Europe, has written several books that shed light on the ever-changing IT industry. Customer-Driven IT: How Users Are Shaping Technology Industry Growth explains how customers, not vendors, are reshaping IT from a supply- to a demand-driven industry. Moschella also penned Waves of Power: Dynamics of Global Technology Leadership 1964-2010. This book provides a clear and concise examination of how the integration of computers, communications and consumer electronics will change global competition in the IT industry.
Jakob Mose:
A systems engineer for CSC in Denmark, Jacob Mose draws from his experience working with customer network security for his book Netværkssikkerhed. It describes the methods hackers use to break into corporate networks, and the countermeasures companies can use to prevent intrusions. Mose also co-wrote TCP/IP Bogen, the first book published in Danish about TCP/IP.
Mark Neff and Laurence Lock Lee:
Mark Neff, Senior Consultant of the CSC Knowledge Program, and Laurence Lock Lee, Principle Knowledge Management Consultant for CSC Australia's Collaboration and Knowledge Management Practice Unit, added their penmanship to Knowledge Networks: Innovation Through Communities of Practice. Their chapter, entitled "How Information Technologies Can Help Build and Sustain an Organization’s CoP: Spanning the Socio-Technical Divide?," addresses what has been done to support communities at CSC and BHP.
Lawrence M. Oliva:
Lawrence M. Oliva, a Project Management Director on CSC Army Programs for CSC's Civil Group, wrote Information Technology Security: Advice from Experts. This book provides a collection of interviews of corporate IT security practitioners offering various viewpoints on successes and failures in managing IT security in organizations. IT security issues are addressed using a Governance, Architecture and Technology framework. A special focus is placed on wireless network connections, countermeasures and IT risk management strategies.
Earl Parsons:
Structured Programming with COBOL Examples, by Earl Parsons, a Computer Scientist - Programmer Analyst for CSC's Financial Services Group, defines structured programming, and then uses COBOL programming examples to prove the definition. Through this process he also shows best practices in COBOL programming. Parsons has also written, The Database Experts Guide to IDEAL. IDEAL is a 4th generation mainframe language. This book describes both the syntax of the language, and best practices for its use. In addition to these books, Parsons has published articles on Enterprise Architecture Integration.
Charles
Poirier:
A partner in CSC's supply chain practice
and a prolific writer, Chuck
Poirier is best known for his series of books on what companies
can do to improve their supply chains. Among them: The
Supply Chain Manager's Problem Solver, Advanced Supply
Chain Management: How to Build a Sustained Competitive Advantage,
E-Supply Chain: Using the Internet to Revolutionize Your Business,
and, The
Networked Supply Chain: Applying Breakthrough BPM Technology
to Meet Relentless Customer Demands, which he co-authored
with Lynette Ferrara, Francis Hayden and Douglas Neal,
all with CSC's LEF Executive Program.
Poirier's most recent books include RFID
Strategic Implementation and ROI, A Practical Roadmap to Success,
which explores the technology and guides manufacturers, distributors
and retailers through RFID adoption and implementation. The
Wall Street Diet, Making Your Business Lean and Healthy
encourages companies to make lifestyle and organizational
changes that result in a leaner, healthier organization.
Sean Rhody:
Sean Rhody is the editor-in-chief of Web
Services Journal and is a respected industry commentator
and speaker. Rhody is also a Partner with CSC Consulting Group.
One book that he has co-authored is Professional Java Data
a collection of extended essays on essential Java/J2EE topics.
This book looks at RDBMS issues, J2EE Architecture and a host
of other key topics within J2EE. Rhody wrote the section on
J2EE Architecture, which details many of the best practices
Consulting Group applies in its J2EE work. Another book that
he co-authored, Beginning
Java Web Services, addresses how to do Web Services
in a variety of ways using Java. It includes discussions of
UDDI, WSDL, SOAP and XML, and also provides real-world examples
from several popular toolkits for building Web Services.
Howard Smith:
CSC's European CTO, Smith, along with
noted industry expert Peter Fingar, wrote Business
Process Management: The Third Wave, which states
that a revolution in the way enterprises use information technology
for competitive advantage is on the horizon. The book details
breakthroughs in process management thinking that promise
to deliver significant business benefits. Smith is also the
author of IT Doesn't Matter — Business Processes
Do.
Lawrence J. Webber:
Lawrence J. Webber co-authored The
Disaster Recovery Handbook: A Step-by-Step Plan to Ensure
Business Continuity and Protect Vital Operations, Facilities,
and Assets. The book is designed to help businesses survive
any possible kind of disruption, and gives tools to protect
them in the event of extraordinary circumstances. Webber,
who is a Six Sigma Black Belt and Project Manager with CSC's
Global Infrastructure Services group, has also published the
IT Policies and Procedures book. This is a handy reference
for instances in which assignments arrive on short notice.
The text provides a background on the various subjects and
decisions that must be made to implement such things as a
Project Management Office, Asset Management, a data back up
strategy, surviving an IT Audit, and more. Webber's third
book, the IS Project Management Handbook, includes
a chapter on incorporating Six Sigma tools into project management.
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