{"id":582,"date":"2016-03-14T13:57:50","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T17:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/03\/14\/2947\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T13:47:31","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T18:47:31","slug":"2947","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2947\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman computer science professor co-authors book about IT management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MAY 22, 2012<br \/>\nby Tina T. Underwood, Contributing Writer<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Picasso-Cover-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2949 lazyload\" title=\"Picasso-Cover-2\" alt=\"\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Picasso-Cover-2.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 160px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 160\/240;\" \/><\/a>GREENVILLE, S.C.\u2014Furman University computer science professor Kenneth Abernethy has co-authored a new book that explores the fundamental concepts of information technology (IT) management in a business environment.<\/p>\n<p><em>Picasso on a Schedule: the Art and Science of Managing IT <\/em>is co-written with Stephen K. Wiggins, chief information officer at BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>The book is designed for IT managers and decision makers, and offers ideas and concepts gleaned from a10-year collaboration between the authors. \u00a0In the book, Wiggins and Abernethy draw from their experience creating professional development programs to support and enhance the Information Systems (I\/S) Division of BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Abernethy is the Herman N. Hipp Professor of Computer Science at Furman and director of Furman\u2019s Institute for the Management of Information Technology.\u00a0 He has authored or co-authored several textbooks and more than 60 professional articles in the field of computer science.<\/p>\n<p>Wiggins is executive vice president and chief information officer of BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina, where he oversees all corporate systems strategic planning, development, programming and enhancements.<\/p>\n<p><em>Picasso on a Schedule<\/em> is available online at Amazon.com and other channels. For more information about the book, contact Stephen K. Wiggins\u00a0at <a href=\"mailto:steve.wiggins@bcbssc.com\">steve.wiggins@bcbssc.com<\/a>, or Ken Abernethy at <a href=\"mailto:ken.abernethy@furman.edu\">ken.abernethy@furman.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAY 22, 2012<br \/>\nby Tina T. Underwood, Contributing Writer<\/p>\n<p>Furman computer science professor Kenneth Abernethy has co-authored a new book that explores the fundamental concepts of information technology (IT) management in a business environment.\u00a0<em>Picasso on a Schedule: the Art and Science of Managing IT <\/em>is co-written with Stephen K. Wiggins, chief information officer at BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-computer-science"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}