After the Y2K Fireworks: Business and Technology Strategies (Advanced & Emerging Communications Technologies) [Hardcover]

Bhuvan Unhelkar (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0849395992 | ISBN-13: 978-0849395994 | Publication Date: May 24, 1999 | Edition: 1

After the Y2K Fireworks focuses on the business and technical aspects of surviving the year 2000 problem - from an author conversant with both business (particularly financial) and computer professionals.
More companies than not will fail to prevent the problems arising from this potential programming disaster. After the Y2K Fireworks addresses this part of the market - putting the problem in perspective and examining all the various organizational and technical issues required to rebuild.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 464 pages
• Publisher: CRC Press; 1 edition (May 24, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0849395992
• ISBN-13: 978-0849395994
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.5 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,678,953 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Bhuvan Unhelkar (BE, MDBA, MSc, PhD; FACS) has more than two decades of strategic as well as hands-on professional experience in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and their application to business and management. He has authored/edited fourteen books in the areas of globalization, mobile business, software quality, business analysis, business processes and the UML, and has extensively presented and published research papers and case studies. His current work in progress is an edited handbook on Green ICT, and a book on Environmentally Responsible Business Strategies.

He is the founding principal of MethodScience.com and has notable consulting and training expertise in software engineering (modelling, processes and quality), enterprise architecture, project management, collaborative web services and mobile business. Dr. Unhelkar earned his Doctorate in the area of "object orientation" from the University of Technology, Sydney, in 1997. Subsequently he designed and delivered course units like Global Information Systems, Object Oriented Analysis and Design, Business Process Reengineering and IT Project Management in various Universities in Australia, China and India. He leads the Mobile Internet Research and Applications Group (MIRAG) at the University of Western Sydney, where he is also an adjunct Associate Professor. His current research interests include composite software development processes for mobile applications and application of mobile technologies in helping organizations with their Environmentally Responsible Business Strategies (ERBS). Dr. Unhelkar is a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society Life member of Computer Society of India, Rotarian at St.Ives, Discovery volunteer at NSW parks and wildlife, and a previous TiE Mentor.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Plan to make a potential Y2K Disaster your OPPORTUNITY!!!, May 25, 1999

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This review is from: After the Y2K Fireworks: Business and Technology Strategies (Advanced & Emerging Communications Technologies) (Hardcover)

I have had an opportunity to review the book's manuscript, as it was being written. The book provides a very practical and visionary approach to recover from a Y2K disaster -- what it calls "Fireworks" -- using technology (object, distributed computing), methodology (adding method/sanity to madness, what a disaster tends to be) and sociology (people aspects). Using this vision, an organisation can position itself for the future, while recovering from a circumstance that may put it back in time.

Overall, a must read for IT planners, managers and architects -- confronting what management guru Peter Drucker would have called "Managing in Turbulent Times".