Review of "Strategic Planning for MIS, by Ephraim R. McLean & John V. Soden"; Wiley-Interscience, 1977

With all my prejudices showing, I approached Strategic Planning for MIS. When the book was presented to me for review, I was told that it was a collection of selected readings. This caused me to want to reject it out-of-hand, for I could not stomach another collection of essays or monographs, connected loosely with an all-encompassing title, and where the editors, at best, appended a hundred words or so at the beginning of each chapter alleging to put it into context. I felt I could not psych myself up to struggle through a dozen different styles of writing, often times photo-reproduced from the original, thus displaying a dozen different type fonts replete with hand-drawn diagrams. I just was not in the mood for another "cheap shot" at a book by two editors.