Wrench In The System By Harold Hambrose

What's Sabotaging Your Business Software And How You Can Release The Power To Innovate

Every year businesses waste billions of pounds, not by squandering money on private jets of bonus schemes, but by using products that drain productivity and reduce profitability - defective SOFTWARE.

In his groundbreaking new book, Wrench In The System, author and designer Harold Hambrose demonstrates how smart businesses can make massive savings by creating and using software that communicates clearly and simply with the people who use it. By making basic design companywide and significantly reduce training costs in the...

...process.

Hambrose points to the National Gallery's Sainsbury Wing as a 95 million pound engineering and design success, a landmark building housing priceless masterpieces. He contrasts this with the millions of pounds companies are willing to spend on new business systems to house their most valuable assets. Too often, Hambrose states, the walls and roof are in places but the assets, the priceless data, is stored behind virtually impenetrable barriers, denying access to many. By considering the skills and methods that bring us iconic architecture, Hambrose reveals what's missing from business systems and helps us understand how to demand, and get, more from these critical investments.

Wrench In The System teaches executives and managers how to turn underperforming digital assets into powerhouse systems by:
- Demanding more from system and software vendors
- Correctly indentifying the needs of the users
- Eliminating obstacles that cause needless confusion
- Specifying low-cost changes that can dramatically boost profitability
- Reducing expensive training costs
- Transforming data into meaningful information
- Learning to leverage the power of technology for innovation

With the insight of an industry insider, Hambrose describes case histories from hospitals, financial institutions and energy companies that show why even the top brand-name business systems fail to deliver full value. Wrench In The System will show executives how... continued on page two >

 

 

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