Bücher von Thomas Huber

Aus dem Leben eines Grenzgängers - die erste Autobiografie des WeltklassealpinistenSeit Jahrzehnten steht der Kletterer und Extrembergsteiger Thomas Huber hart am Abgrund. Er verzeichnet große Erfolge bei Erstbesteigungen und spektakulären Klettertouren, erlitt Niederlagen, überlebte schwere Unfälle und Krankheit. Stets am Limit, machte er aus dem Scheitern eine Tugend und stand immer wieder auf. Nun berichtet er offen wie nie von seiner Kindheit am Fuße der Alpen, von der Kraft des ersten Schrittes, von Leidenschaft, Bruderschaft, Mut und Zweifel. Die Geschichte eines der berühmtesten Bergsteiger unserer Zeit und eine Hymne auf die Freiheit.

In recent years, development of information systems (IS) has rapidly changed towards increasing division of labor between firms. Two trends are emerging. First, client companies increasingly outsource software development to external service providers. Second, the formerly oligopolistic enterprise application software industry has started to disintegrate into focal partnership networks ¿ so called platform ecosystems. Despite the increasing prominence of IS outsourcing and platform ecosystems, many of these inter-organizational partnerships fail to achieve expected benefits. Ineffective governance and control frequently plays a pivotal role in producing these failures. While designing effective governance and control mechanisms is always challenging, inter-organizational software development projects are often business-critical and exhibit additional dynamics and uncertainty. As a consequence governance and control have to be adapted over time. The three research projects included in this book provide a better understanding of how and why governance and control can be effectively adapted over time. The implications for successful management of inter-organizational software development projects are highly relevant for theory and practice.