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  1. Platform Strategy
    Platform Strategy
    Innovation Through Harmonization
    Gregor Hohpe

    Developer platforms promise to rewrite the laws of IT physics: they boost innovation through standards; they speed up development while assuring compliance; and they reduce cognitive load without restricting choice. Building such an in-house platform, or even deploying one, is far from easy, though. This book condenses a decade of building and rolling out platforms into practical advice for platform teams and users.5300+ happy readers! Also as Paperback edition

  2. Le Livre de TameFlow
    Le Livre de TameFlow
    La Théorie des Contraintes appliquée au Travail collaboratif de nature intellectuelle
    Steve Tendon and José Coignard

    Vous recherchez une approche de gouvernance d'entreprise à haute performance qui améliore la gestion, l'exécution et la livraison tout en gérant simultanément de multiples projets/produits, événements, parties prenantes et équipes ? Une approche qui vous apporte de meilleurs résultats financiers, une mise sur le marché plus rapide, une charge de travail réduite, une meilleure prédictibilité, des employés plus satisfaits et des clients ravis ? Alors découvrez TameFlow !

  3. User Needs Mapping
    User Needs Mapping
    Aligning Teams Around What Matters
    Rich Allen

    Most teams don’t suffer from a lack of effort—they suffer from a lack of alignment. Goals are misaligned, boundaries are unclear, and work often centres on internal priorities instead of user needs— resulting in frustration and delays. User Needs Mapping: Aligning Teams Around What Matters offers a practical, visual way to reconnect organisations with the people they serve. Instead of guessing at structure or copying someone else’s model, this book shows you how to expose hidden dependencies, identify genuine user needs, and make better choices about team design and responsibilities. Through real-world case studies and step-by-step guidance, you’ll learn how to navigate tensions between wants, needs, and feasibility, create clarity of purpose, and build teams that deliver meaningful outcomes. Whether you’re a leader, product manager, architect, or change agent, this book equips you to turn complexity into clarity and enable teams to flow faster—aligned around what matters.

  4. Visual Collaboration Tools
    Visual Collaboration Tools
    for teams building software
    João Rosa, Kenny Baas-Schwegler, Nick Tune, Mathias Verraes, Stefan Hofer, Henning Schwentner, Cédric Pontet, Trond Hjorteland, Pim Smeets, Krisztina Hirth, Gojko Adzic, Zsofia Herendi, Julius Gamanyi, Paul de Raaij, Michael Plöd, Dawn Ahukanna, Gayathri Thiyagarajan, Steve Pereira, Devon Burriss, Nancy Beers, Rich Allen, and Matthew Skelton

    Visual Collaboration Tools is a book for teams building software. It describes tools that help us in our daily job, and also present field stories from different practitioners.

  5. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Field Guide
    Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Field Guide
    Your companion to a successful implementation. Tips to get ahead as you venture into the cloud
    Erik Hougaard

    A companion book for implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Targeted end-users, super-users and administrators, this book covers many of the challenges you're faced when implementing a cloud-based ERP system. From setting up the system and creating the first company to user customizations and integration. Updated to 2026 Wave 1 v28.

  6. The Cybernetic Enterprise
    The Cybernetic Enterprise
    How to Build a Future-Ready Organization
    Romano Roth

    Most enterprises can deliver fast, but few can adapt at scale.The Cybernetic Enterprise introduces a unifying operating model that embeds AI, feedback loops, and platform thinking into the DNA of your organization. Learn how to build a system that senses change, learns continuously, and transforms disruption into strategic advantage.

  7. 37 Things One Architect Knows About IT Transformation
    37 Things One Architect Knows About IT Transformation
    A Chief Architect's Journey
    Gregor Hohpe

    As the digital economy changes the rules of the game for enterprises, the role of architects also changes. Rather than focus on software architecture alone, they must connect the penthouse, where the business strategy is set, and the engine room, where the enabling technology is implemented. Learn how to ride this Architect Elevator!

  8. Das kybernetische Unternehmen (Deutsche Ausgabe)
    Das kybernetische Unternehmen (Deutsche Ausgabe)
    So bauen Sie eine zukunftsfähige Organisation auf
    Romano Roth and TranslateAI

    Die meisten Unternehmen können schnell liefern, aber nur wenige können sich in großem Maßstab anpassen.The Cybernetic Enterprise stellt ein einheitliches Betriebsmodell vor, das KI, Rückkopplungsschleifen und Plattform-Denken in die DNA Ihrer Organisation einbettet. Erfahren Sie, wie Sie ein System aufbauen, das Veränderungen wahrnimmt, kontinuierlich lernt und Disruption in strategische Vorteile verwandelt.

  9. Surviving Strategy & Architecture
    Surviving Strategy & Architecture
    Getting Out of Your Own Way to Survive and Thrive in Strategy and Architecture
    Michael D Stark

    Example chapter available on ThinkingEA.com - A Very Common Tragedy (Chapter 17)

  10. Better Estimates
    Better Estimates
    Supercharge your forecasting (Agile Projects)
    Ines Garcia

    Forecast better when predicting the unpredictable with the 5 methods. WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?

  11. Beyond the Patch
    Beyond the Patch
    Finding and Defending Against Modern Software Vulnerabilities
    Steve Publications

    Patching vulnerabilities is only part of the job. Beyond the Patch explores how software weaknesses arise, how attackers find and exploit them and what it takes to stop them before they become real threats. From code-level analysis to practical defense strategies, this book offers the knowledge and tools to build more secure software and stay ahead of evolving attacks.

  12. 从AI使用到经营收益
    从AI使用到经营收益
    小型B2B企业的流程衔接与投入判断
    杨永飞

    AI能找到联系人、整理需求、起草回复,为什么经营者仍然很忙,企业也未必赚得更多?

  13. The Agentic Security Playbook
    The Agentic Security Playbook
    Securing AI Coding Agents and the Software They Ship
    Kristian Reformis

    Your agent just read a file you didn't think mattered, followed an instruction hidden in a web page, and pushed a commit. None of it looked suspicious. That's the shape of agentic security — and *The Agentic Security Playbook* is how you close the gap before someone else finds it.

  14. AI-Powered Smart Decision Making
    AI-Powered Smart Decision Making
    A Practical Guide to Using AI, Data & Analytics for Smarter Business Decisions
    Mohammad Kamrul Hassan

    AI can analyze the data. But who decides what the data means—and what to do next?Modern organizations have more information than ever, yet making good decisions remains difficult.AI-Powered Smart Decision Making shows how to combine AI, data, analytics, and human judgment to turn information into insight and insight into action.Discover a practical framework for making better decisions across strategy, marketing, sales, operations, finance, risk, and beyond.AI is not the decision. AI improves the decision process. Table of ContentsIntroduction—The New Era of AI-Powered Decision MakingChapter 1 — The Foundations of Better Business DecisionsChapter 2 — From Intuition to Data-Driven Decision MakingChapter 3 — Understanding Data for Better DecisionsChapter 4 — Business Analytics: Turning Data into InsightChapter 5 — How AI Changes Business Decision MakingChapter 6 — Building an AI-Powered Decision FrameworkChapter 7 — Asking the Right Questions: AI, Data & Decision ProblemsChapter 8 — Predictive Decision MakingChapter 9 — Prescriptive Analytics and Decision OptimizationChapter 10 — AI for Strategic Business DecisionsChapter 11 — AI for Marketing and Customer DecisionsChapter 12 — AI for Sales, Operations and Supply ChainChapter 13 — AI for Financial and Risk DecisionsChapter 14 — Human + AI: The New Decision-Making PartnershipChapter 15 — Bias, Uncertainty and the Limits of AI DecisionsChapter 16 — Trustworthy, Responsible and Explainable AI DecisionsChapter 17 — Measuring Decision Quality and Business ImpactChapter 18 — Building an AI-Powered Decision CultureChapter 19 — Designing an AI-Powered Decision SystemChapter 20 — The Future of Smart Decision MakingConclusion — From Data to Better DecisionsDisclaimer

  15. ServiceNow CIS-SAM
    ServiceNow CIS-SAM
    The Implementation-First Guide to Software Asset Management Professional
    Rahul Pathak

    CIS-SAM is an Implementation Specialist exam — it tests whether you can configure SAM Professional, not whether you know ITAM theory. This guide is organised against ServiceNow's published blueprint, domain by domain, and weights its depth the way the exam does. All five domains across 15 chapters, plus a 60-question practice exam with worked answers.