Back To WorldOfRodeo's Main Page Finally A New - Logical Approach To Technical Issues Facing Businesses Techmandments R.A. Carlton Techmandments is a common sense, succinct and occasionally tongue-in-cheek guide to living and working with enterprise technology, for non-technical executives who’ve ever felt held hostage by the enterprise systems that support them. The book is based on the author’s 30 year experience solving technical problems for C-level managers in a broad variety of market segments, ranging from financial services to hospitality, to distance learning, health care, aerospace, and many others.  Techmandments demystifies and illuminates what happens “under the hood” of enterprise systems management, in addition to enabling non-technical managers to feel more confident in their communication with technology professionals.  The book provides its concepts in easy-to-digest segments, allowing busy executives access to its practical concepts efficiently, and in the least amount of time. Techmandments is delivered in the convenient and universally accepted Adobe PDF format enabling it to easily “travel” on either laptop or PDA. Techmandments is the essential common sense “stress-reduction” device for 21st century managers! Order Here ONLY $12.95  Excerpts 1 – NO MAKE WORK… Have you ever reflected on the fact that truly useful operational ideas rarely get applied unless there’s no other choice? You know; concepts and decisions based on practicality and a singular focus on critical success factors? If not, then it might be useful to consider the parable of the “Pen That Wouldn’t Write, Right…” CHAPTER 2 – REALITY VERSUS THE BUZZ …The unfortunate truth is, however, that technology, regardless of its suggested potential, typically revolutionizes nothing except growth rates associated with its cost of ownership. And the cost ramp only gets steeper, rather than flatter, as time passes… CHAPTER 3 – FREE LUNCH – NOT… …One of the oldest and most widely misunderstood qualities associated with any form of technology are that they “eliminate work.” Well, the inverse is true; technology doesn’t eliminate work, it makes it… CHAPTER 4 – TAKING THE LONG VIEW …if these factors are not accommodated early, one can expect trouble well beyond the consequences of trying to teach a pig to sing; in which case, “it can’t be done and it annoys the pig…” CHAPTER 5 – TOOL SHEDS, CHAINSAWS AND PIGS It is unlikely that you’d ever hear a computing engineer compare his work to that of a lumberjack. The notion of applying a scientific discipline enabling the conversion of physical motion into electrical energy to produce control of binary values, and their subsequent delivery across great distances at the speed of light, appears nothing like the art of felling a mature one-hundred foot tree with a chainsaw… CHAPTER 6 - ERRORS Machines break, programming is flawed, data is corrupt, network packets collide, routers lose their way and power fluctuates but, whatever the reason, things go wrong with technology… CHAPTER 7 – THE SATAN BUG , "…things were going badly; there was something wrong in one of the circuits…Finally, someone located the trouble…and, using ordinary tweezers, removed the problem, a two-inch moth.” CHAPTER 8 - DIRECTNESS One of the more interesting qualities of language is the way people turn words that mean one thing into words that mean another. For example the phrase “honey-pot” can mean two entirely different things… CHAPTER 9 – KNOWING NOT THINKING …Fortunately, most of the time, what look like major catastrophes, are really just a series of much smaller issues electronically jammed together. CHAPTER 10 - SECURITY Prior to 9-11 security was clearly an issue for enterprise technologists, but was not viewed with the same sense of urgency as today… Order Here ONLY $12.95  Back To Top

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