Books
I
have been a professional writer for many years and on an extremely wide variety
of subjects. In fact, they run from eBusiness to etiquette for mobile phone
users and from a list of recipes for Punch to list of waste removal stations for
motorhome owners. A number of early works from what I might call my "initial
gourmet phase" such as "Cocktails Made Easy" and
"Punch & Party Drinks" (see below) have been translated
into English - which is actually quite funny, given that English is my mother
tongue - every read yourself in translation? There is also an English version of
my most successful cocktail book, entitled "Summerdrinks", out there
somewhere, but I have never been able to locate it. (For that matter, there are
translations in French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech and
even - brace yourself! - Arabic.)
My
more serious books, unfortunately, are not available in English versions. I
guess the Anglo-Saxon community has enough good books on the subjects already,
but in Germany they have been very well received. In
fact, “Erfolgsfaktor Internet” (“Success Factor Internet”, a kind
of Internet primer for managers, briefly reached the Focus Bestseller List at
the height of the Cyber Frenzy.
“Managementaufgabe
Sicherheit” (“Management Task Security”) is a kind of self-improvement
book for managers worried about the security risks they and their companies face
through computers and networks (including the Internet), and it fills the void
between sensationalist accounts of hackers and cyber-terrorists and tecchie
“how-to” handbooks for those who know how to install a firewall in their
homes.
“Das Kunden-Kartell” (“The Customer
Cartell”) is a book I wrote together with Paul Gromball, a former McKinsey and
Mitchell Madison consultant who was instrumental in setting up GE’s original
eProcurement platform – way back before anyone knew the word. In the book, we
explore the shift in the basic relationship between supply and demand in a
networked world, leading to things like Customer Empowerment, the success of the
eBay model, and the need for companies to convince their purchasing departments
that B2B portals are not just a fad.
Cocktails
Made Easy
published: 1994
pages: 36
ISBN: 1-874567-51-4
Punch
& Party Drinks
published: 1994
pages: 36
ISBN: 1-874567-71-9
tim@cole.de