On the Jacket

We have chosen the legend of Sisyphus as the theme for our cover. In Greek mythology, Sisyphus was condemned by the gods to push a massive boulder uphill. Upon reaching the summit, the boulder would slip and roll back to the bottom, and Sisyphus would be forced to repeat the effort endlessly. This tremendous, but futile and never ending effort is, unfortunately an apt metaphor for the hard reality facing many IT managers. We hope that the approaches and techniques in this book help the IT director break free of the Sisyphean cycle.

This original cover art was created by Dale O'Dell, an artist with over twenty years of experience in digital artwork design. Dale O'Dell Photography & Digital Illustration is on-line at www.dalephoto.com.

Publishing Information

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: ISBN 0-471-265609-4
The Executives Guide to Information Technology is published by John Wiley & Sons, New York.
The foreword is by Professor Lynda Applegate, the Henry R. Byers Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School.
Created in conjunction with Studio B.