Mainframe Downsizing To Upsize Your Business

Become an IT-Preneur!

Englewood Cliffs, NJ, February 28, 1994 -- Mainframe downsizing ... It
almost sounds painful doesn't it? But, many companies are successfully
downsizing to client/server systems and saving valuable resources.
Mainframe Downsizing To Upsize Your Business: IT-Preneuring by James B.
Grosvenor, the comprehensive guide to mainframe downsizing for MIS
professionals.

Become an IT-preneur! Mainframe Downsizing To Upsize Your Business uses
vivid first-hand accounts of mainframe downsizing to illustrate the
technical and non-technical issues and opportunities of this exciting
industry trend. Grosvenor equips MIS professionals with the framework and
decision making criteria for charting his or her own path off the
mainframe. The author engages the potential IT-preneur with real
experiences of those IT-preneurs who are turning their companies around
with the help of migration tools, client/server applications, process
re-engineering, and now organizational paradigms. Topics include:

* The Downsizing Revolution 
* The Economics Behind Downsizing
* Downsizing to Upsize the Business
* Why is Everyone Taking So Long?
* The Tricky Question of Moving the Software
* Is System Development Becoming Simpler or More Difficult?
* How about Biting the Bullet and Moving to a Real Client/Server?
* What Do You Do with a Downsized Client/Server System?

About the Author...

James B.M. Grosvenor's background, IS a strategic planning and
implementation consultant, allows him to bring uniquely practical business
perspectives to the subject of mainframe downsizing. Jim served as a top
management consultant in McKinsey & Co.'s Tokyo and Los Angeles offices
from 1982 to 1987. During that time, he helped major Japanese and US
companies in the electronics and computer industry set strategies and
implement organizational and business process changes. He joined
Hewlett-Packard from McKinsey, where he has continued to act as a
management consultant to Hewlett-Paekard's top management team.

Throughout his career, Jim has focused on applying business strategy across
organizations of major corporations to achieve corporate revenue and
profit goals. More often than not, information systems have served as the
chief enablers for his programs.

Mainframe Downsizing To Upsize Your Business: IT-Preneuring
J. Grosvenor. Hewlett-Packard Professional Books 1994 (PTR Prentice Hall).
Cloth: ISBN 0-13-102708-5. 224 pp. $35.00.

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