Paul Houston Harkins

The Future of Corporate Computing Paul Houston Harkins

Publisher Marketing: The future of corporate computing is the rapid transformation from in-house computing to cloud computing. That future includes a direct and interactive dialogue between the ultimate user and the computer-and without programming as we know it today. In The Future of Corporate Computing, Paul Houston Harkins, a fifty-five-year veteran of the corporate IT industry, offers his expert opinion to business executives seeking to understand and manage corporate computing and the impact of this revolution in information management systems on their bottom lines. Whereas executive managers working with the current IT environment put their precious information in the hands of their IT teams, emerging technology integrates corporate computing in a very immediate way. Changes in corporate computing will bring almost total transparency, instant auditability, and universal understanding of all computing processes. Top managers, Harkins argues, must focus on utilizing corporate computing as a major business tool and asset for accomplishing their organizational objectives. The Future of Corporate Computing pushes hard against self-serving and costly inertia, providing corporate executives with the information and insights to encourage them to make the leap into the new era.