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The Great Transition: Using the Seven Disciplines of Enterprise Engineering to Align People, Technology, and Strategy

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There is one quote in this book which alone makes it worth the price of purchase: "Most systems being developed today are the wrong systems." The book essentially explains why this is true and what to do about it. Anyone building enterprise systems needs to understand this concept and reckon with it. Ignore it at your own risk. While the book is not fun to read because it does not take this ball and run with it clearly and forcefully starting at the beginning and proceeding to the end, it illuminates the subject in important ways -- vital ways. Martin's mind operates at a higher speed and in different ways from the minds of most people ... and he is usually right. I'd be suspect of anyone claiming the capability to build systems today who does not understand the issues and concepts in this book. Buy it and read it, then read it again.

The great transition is a great disappointment for people trying to understand transformational change and organization alignment. The work is largely a compilation of ideas, stories, and other items generated by others over the last 20 years. People looking for the same degree of clarity found in Martin's groundbreaking Information Engineering series will be sorely disappointed. There are many better works on this subject than this. Sorry, but this ones not worth the time or the money in my opinion.

Martin does another disservice to his readers with this book. It is a compliation of anecdotes, stories and hype. It also contains repetitive material from his other books.

Sadly, it is not recomnmended.

Just Amazing, every busines student should read it