Richard Hunter
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World Without Secrets: Business, Crime and Privacy in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing
10 editions
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2002
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Cross-Cut Workshop
2 editions
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2001
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Monkey jump workshop
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2002
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Objects in the Rearview Mirror may be Closer than they Appear
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2010
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How to Study Poetry
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2011
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Key Concepts in Life and Death
2 editions
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2007
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Counting Liberties and Winning Capturing Races
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Fear of Dying
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2010
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More Dollies
8 editions
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2008
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“Language is powerful. What we say can shape how we think—and it certainly shapes how others think about us. In this regard, calling the business a “customer” simply conveys the idea that IT is not part of the business.”
― Real Business of IT: How CIOs Create and Communicate Value
― Real Business of IT: How CIOs Create and Communicate Value
“Lots of IT organizations have metrics that say, 'We're 99.99 percent on uptime, we're fast.' The plumbing is wonderful, but nobody cares.”
― Real Business of IT: How CIOs Create and Communicate Value
― Real Business of IT: How CIOs Create and Communicate Value
“The only people in any enterprise who ever describe anyone except the people who buy the enterprise’s products and services as “customers” are IT personnel. The only people in the enterprise who ever talk about “aligning with the business” are IT personnel. (Maybe the head of sales has talked about aligning her function with a new strategy or a new value proposition, or the head of manufacturing has talked about aligning with new key performance indicators—but aligning with the business?) That view can’t be good for IT. It is a legacy of the”
― Real Business of IT: How CIOs Create and Communicate Value
― Real Business of IT: How CIOs Create and Communicate Value
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