Bob Lewis's has spent 21 years of writing and consulting in business information technology. When InfoWorld was a print publication he was one of its most popular columnists - his ''IS Survival Guide'' reached an estimated 250,000 readers per week and received a silver medal from the ASBPE, West Coast chapter. Counting this, his InfoWorld blog ''Advice Line, '' (which received a bronze medal from the same organization) various feature stories published in InfoWorld and CIO, and his own Keep the Joint Running column/blog, He's published more than 1,600 columns and eleven books on subjects related to information technology organizations and their intersection with the rest of the business. Dave Kaiser is a talented CIO, with more than 34 years of diverse IT experience, in Insurance, Finance, Technology, Retail, and Manufacturing. He has lead IT organizations making use of the principles espoused in this book. His relevant specific experience includes what other companies might have called a core system modernizations, but which his company understood was a business risk mitigation that carried with it opportunities to streamline business processes while facilitating strategy-driven revenue growth. Because of his recognition that there is no such thing as an IT project, his company put him in charge of its strategic planning efforts for the past seven years.
