[Fwd: IT Doesn't Matter-- Business Processes Do]

["Monica J. Martin" <Monica.Martin@Sun.COM>]

As we discussed on Monday, for those interested in this new book. Thanks 
Layna for the pointer.

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Subject: 	IT Doesn't Matter-- Business Processes Do
Date: 	Thu, 23 Oct 2003 19:14:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: 	Layna Fischer <fischer@bpmi.org>
Reply-To: 	fischer@bpmi.org
To: 	monica.martin@sun.com



A new book by Howard Smith and Peter Fingar
**

 From the authors of the bestselling Business Process Management: The 
Third Wave, read Howard Smith and Peter Fingar's critical analysis of 
Nicholas Carr's infamous IT article in the Harvard Business Review.

Smith and Fingar have been busy expanding on the BPM breakthrough 
through a number of articles and this new book. What prompted the book 
was an article in the Harvard Business Review in May that triggered a 
flurry of debate in business and high-tech circles, and even some calls 
from Harvard's business school to sever its links to the venerable 
Business Review. The sensationally titled article, "IT Doesn't Matter," 
declared that information technology has matured to the point where it 
no longer gives companies competitive advantages. Now comes the in-depth 
monograph that debunks the underlying assumptions and conclusions of the 
article. A Washington Post feature provides an apt summary of the new 
book, "In IT Doesn't Matter-- Business Processes Do," Smith and Fingar, 
draw the opposite conclusion: "The strategic importance of IT is 
actually increasing as the recent 'business process rEvolution' allows 
companies to innovate the way they do business." As you pursue your work 
and spread the word about BPM to your current and future business 
customers, you'll no doubt be confronted with the IT doesn't matter way 
of thinking--but now you you have a concise resource to explain how 
value is linked to IT by basing IT on BPM principles.

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*About the Authors*

HOWARD SMITH is Chief Technology Officer (Europe) of Computer Sciences 
Corporation (CSC) and co-chair of the Business Process Management 
Initiative (BPMI.org). With more than 24 years in the IT industry, he is 
a sought after speaker and advisor. His work in predicting and shaping 
technology at the intersection with business led him to take an active 
role in the development and application of the third wave. He is 
currently researching the application of business process management to 
corporate sustainability, innovation and growth, for which he has global 
research and development responsibility at CSC. Howard can be contacted 
at authors@bpm3.com

For More Information including Table of Contents Click Here 
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**

PETER FINGAR is an Executive Partner with the digital strategy firm, the 
Greystone Group. He delivers keynotes world wide and is author of the 
best-selling books, The Death of "e" and the Birth of the Real New 
Economy and Enterprise E-Commerce. Over his 30-year career he has taught 
graduate and undergraduate computing studies and held management, 
technical and consulting positions with GTE Data Services, Saudi Aramco, 
the Technical Resource Connection division of Perot Systems and IBM 
Global Services, as well as serving as CIO for the University of Tampa.

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Sincerely,

Layna Fischer
BPMI

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