Roberts / Watson Confessions of a Successful CIO

How the Best CIOs Tackle Their Toughest Business Challenges
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-84930-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Wiley CIO

Be the most effective CIO you can be--by learning from thebest in the business
Today's Chief Information Officers must be an entirely new breedof technology leader. With ever-changing demands from the business,and in an increasingly technology-centric business environment,CIOs must find game-changing innovations and process improvementsthat make a real impact on the bottom line. Business executivesneed their CIOs to be real partners--speaking the language ofthe business and donning their strategist caps--not justcommodity managers. Those IT leaders who fail to break out of theorder-taker, utility manager mold will, simply put, be looking fora new job.
In Confessions of a Successful CIO: How the Best CIOs TackleTheir Toughest Business Challenges, current and future CIOswill gain invaluable perspectives from the stories of today's bestIT leaders. These acclaimed leaders--each profiled in theirown chapter--explain the toughest business decision they hadto make, and how the outcome influenced and impacted theirleadership style. These in-depth anecdotes take the reader insidesome of the most challenging business climates imaginable andchronicle how these elite CIOs made the decisions thatmattered.
* Read detailed case studies of how some of the best CIOs havehandled their most challenging business problems
* Learn how the best CIOs anticipate changes to their businessand respond--before the business comes knocking
* Explore how these top-flight CIOs make critical decisionsaround strategy and IT to not only benefit their companies, but insome cases, to save them from becoming obsolete.
* Analyze their perspectives on managing people, crises andbalancing the risks and rewards of their "bet the farm"strategies
Confessions of a Successful CIO is the new playbook forlearning how to take risks, respond to crises, and create morevalue from IT. Each chapter presents a different challenge, givingpresent-day and future IT leaders the chance to examine, analyzeand learn so that they can be just as successful as the CIOsthey're reading about.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roberts, Dan

Watson, Brian

Weitere Mitwirkende

Cramm, Susan

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword xi
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xvii
Chapter 1 The Anticipator: Filippo Passerini 1
Chapter 2 The Rocket Scientist: Rebecca Rhoads 17
Chapter 3 The Fixer: Steve Bandrowczak 33
Chapter 4 The Pilot: Carol Zierhoffer 51
Chapter 5 The Conductor: Lynden Tennison 69
Chapter 6 The Decider: Wayne Shurts 87
Chapter 7 The Realist: Don Imholz 103
Chapter 8 The Accidental CIO: Sheleen Quish 119
Chapter 9 The Innovator: Greg Schwartz 139
About the CIOs 155
About the Authors 165
Index 167

Über Autor(innen)

DAN ROBERTS is a 30-year veteran of the IT industry andthe CEO and President of Ouellette & Associates Consulting,Inc. He is a contributing author of several books, includingUnleashing the Power of IT (Wiley, 2013) and Leading ITTransformation. Dan is a frequent keynote speaker at CIO and ITindustry events and is often quoted in leading industry journals.He graduated from UNH's Whittemore School of Business &Economics.
BRIAN P. WATSON is the former Editor in Chief of CIOInsight and has contributed reporting and analysis to severalmedia outlets focused on IT leadership. Since 2010, he has servedas Director of Business Outreach for Workforce Opportunity Services(WOS), a 501c3 nonprofit company. He earned his Bachelor'sdegree from Bucknell University and a Master's degree fromNorthwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.