This book describes a process framework for business information management, encompassing the best way to manage and execute business information management in day-to-day practice, and explaining how BiSL® can help.

Effective management of business information is critically important for modern organizations. The Business Information Systems Library (BiSL) is a generic framework and a domain standard which is consistent with ITIL and ASL. As outsourcing of ICT activities increases, it is ess...

The Open Group’s long awaited guidance on Cloud is now published!

Cloud Computing is the major evolution today in computing. It describes how the internet has enabled organizations to access computing resources as a commodity and when needed – in much the same way as households access household utilities.

For Enterprises with complex and expensive IT systems, the idea of paying on demand for someone else to provide IT services is attractive. This authoritative guide is specifically designed...

This ground-breaking title from the world's leading authority on contemporary contracting best practices, the IACCM (International Association for Contract and Commercial Management) delivers a lively and practical complete insight into the contracting process which is useful in both business and personal life.

Contracts are the language of business, and this book gives readers the essentials that can make a difference to any deal, no matter how big or small. Designed for the non-contract bu...

This book describes the framework of the next generation of Business Information Services Library, BiSL®. BiSL Next is a public domain standard for business information management with guiding principles, good practices and practical templates. It offers guidance for digitally engaged business leaders and those who collaborate with them, with the ultimate goal to improve business performance through better use of information and technology.

Twelve elements - four drivers, four domains and fo...

Note: This book is available in several languages: Dutch, English.

Self assessment is the individual, systematic review of a way of working and the results of it. Filling out this BiSL® Self-assessment results into a clear notion how the business information management and its processes and activities are arranged within your own organization.

An important purpose for this Self-assessment is not only to get a clear notion how certain processes are arranged, but also to make the constraints wit...

Note: This book is available in several languages: Dutch, English.

This book describes a process framework for business information management:

the Business Information Services Library (BiSL®) - a public domain standard

that is consistent with the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and Application Services Library (ASL).

BiSL establishes a bridge between IT and business processes, and between business information administrators and information managers. The BiSL process model provides an insigh...

ISO 21500, officially published in September 2012, is the first overarching guideline for project management that presents a common frame of reference and a process standard. This international standard firmly positions projects within the context of programs and project portfolios and is the basis for further development of the project management profession.

This book explains the background, the value, the implementation and the application of ISO 21500 for each type of organization. It des...

Note: This pocket book is available in several languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch.

This pocket guide is based on the PMBOK® Guide Fifth Edition. It contains a summary of the PMBOK® Guide, to provide a quick introduction as well as a structured overview of this framework for project management. This pocket guide deals with the key issues and themes within project management and the PMBOK® Guide as follows:

- Key terms and definitions in the project management profession

- A sh...

This pocket guide explains the content and the practical use of ISO 21500 - Guidance on project management, the latest international standard for project management, and the first of a family of ISO standards for project, portfolio and program management.

ISO 21500 is meant for senior managers and project sponsors to better understand project management and to properly support projects, for project managers and their team members to have a reference for comparing their projects to others a...

This book explains the Business Transformation Framework, BTF Version 2016, a structural approach based on best practice. It is a practical approach that helps organizations to design, develop, plan and govern organizational change. Obviously developing a solid and widely supported Change plan is the first step towards a successful organizational change! Simply said: BTF helps to get control over organizational change!

In the BTF coherence and collaboration are essential. The BTF approach i...