Just Enough Wireless Computing (Just Enough Series) [Paperback]

Ian S. Hayes (Author)

Book Description

Series: Just Enough Series | Publication Date: August 12, 2002

Wireless technology offers immense potential for competitive advantage, starting right now -- but today's wireless landscape can be extraordinarily confusing. This book gives decision makers the clarity, insight, and practical methodology they need to identify the right wireless solutions -- and implement them. Ian S. Hayes offers a practical framework for understanding today's complex array of wireless devices, solution providers, technologies, standards, architectures, and acronyms. Through real-world case studies, practical examples, and illustrations, he helps you determine which wireless solutions offer the greatest business value in your environment -- and walks you through assembling and integrating those solutions. The book contains a detailed glossary of terminology, as well as a comprehensive list of software vendors and consultants, updated on an ongoing basis at the book's companion Web site.

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From the Back Cover

• Identify the right wireless technologies for your enterprise-and implement them
• Decision-maker's framework helps you make sense of today's complex wireless marketplace
• Covers wireless strategy, technology, planning, deployment, management, support, and more

The decision-maker's guide to competitive advantage with wireless technology.

• A wireless primer for technical decision makers
• What wireless can do for your company: an overview of today's wireless technologies and their business benefits
• Includes and extensive set of example applications and three in-depth case studies
• How to get started: exclusive decision-makers framework, questionnaire, and checklists guide you through capturing your business requirements, defining your solution, cost-justifying it, and planning its implementation

Just Enough Wireless Computing gives decision makers the clarity, insight, and practical techniques they need to cut through the confusion of today's wireless marketplace, identify the right wireless solutions, and implement them.

Ian S. Hayes presents an easy-to-use framework for understanding today's complex array of wireless devices, solution providers, technologies, standards, architectures, and acronyms. Using real-world case studies and illustrations, he helps you-

• Determine exactly which wireless technologies offer the greatest business value in your environment
• Walks you through assembling and integrating solutions that work

Whether you're a line-of-business manager, CIO, solutions provider, or software engineer, this book will help you transform the promise of wireless into quantifiable, sustainable competitive advantage.

About the Author

IAN S. HAYES is president of Clarity Consulting, South Hamilton, MA, an IT management consultancy. Hayes specializes in helping Fortune 1000 companies and IT solution and service providers identify, and capitalize on, emerging trends and markets. His strategic consulting experience encompasses outsourcing, process redesign, efficiency enhancement, productivity and service-level metrics, and IT product and service positioning and marketing.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR (August 12, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130994618
• ISBN-13: 978-0130994615
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.9 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,881,352 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Practical Guide to Wireless Computing, October 21, 2002

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William Ulrich (Soquel, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Just Enough Wireless Computing (Just Enough Series) (Paperback)

By cutting through the confusing acronyms and technocratic garble that earmark most wireless technology discussions, Ian Hayes delivers solid advice for creating and refining a corporate wireless strategy. Hayes provides readily actionable advice to managers, executives and IT personnel who need to quickly come up to speed on the ins and outs of wireless technology. Most impressive is his use of case studies and concrete examples to communicate how wireless technology can be deployed within corporate environments. Hayes offers cost justification guidelines that include how to communicate and sell a wireless solution to executives. This book is highly readable and offers practical advice on how to move forward with a corporate wireless computing strategy. If you are confused by the endless jargon that seems to accompany every wireless conversation and need to cut to the chase, this book is highly recommended reading for you and your management team.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great overview of wireless technology!, October 18, 2002

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"anne_hayes" (Washington, DC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Just Enough Wireless Computing (Just Enough Series) (Paperback)

If you need to know what wireless technology is about, but don't want to wade through mountains of technical detail, this book is for you. Ian does a great job of laying out what's most important about wireless, and gives a framework for figuring out how to use it successfully in your business. This book is an excellent resource for any business person or IT manager involved in or considering a wireless project. Congratulations Ian!