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CIO Wisdom: Best Practices from Silicon Valley's Leading IT Experts

Author Dean Lane
Release Date: 2003/07/01
ISBN: 0131411152
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What it takes to be a truly great CIO... from the IT leaders who know best

What does it take to get to the top in IT today, stay there, and thrive? How do you realign IT to maximize business value, and become a full strategic partner in the organization's most crucial decisions? CIO Wisdom brings together answers from 20 of the world's most successful senior IT executives. Based on their extraordinary private discussions over the past five years, it covers every facet of IT leadership: planning, budgeting, sourcing, architecture, strategy, and much more. If you're an IT leader-or you intend to become one-it's the most important book you'll read this year.

  • What really works right now

  • Taking charge: Creating a 90-day tactical plan-and an intelligent long-term strategy

  • Refocusing IT on your company's core business drivers

  • Leading IT in today's rapidly evolving "extended enterprise"

  • Deciding what to outsource-and managing your outsourcing relationships

  • Implementing the ten metrics most critical to IT success

  • Setting priorities when infrastructure costs are rising and resources are declining

  • Evolving the leadership style that works best for you-and your organization

  • Coping with the incredible personal pressures of IT leadership

  • Addressing the unique challenges that face women in IT's upper echelons

    • The authors' profits from this book will support a scholarship program for underprivileged students planning IT careers

    Table of Contents

    1. Title Page
    2. Copyright Page
    3. Contents
    4. Harris Kern's Enterprise Computing Institute
    5. Foreword by Regis McKenna
    6. Foreword by Maynard Webb (COO of eBay)
    7. Foreword by Dean Lane
    8. Acknowledgments
    9. Chapter 1. Within and Beyond: Understanding the Role of the CIO
    10. Chapter 2. Women CIOs
    11. Chapter 3. The First 90 Days
    12. Chapter 4. The Tao Perspective
    13. Chapter 5. Communications: Communication Excellence in IT Management
    14. Chapter 6. IT Organization
    15. Chapter 7. Governance
    16. Chapter 8. Architecture
    17. Chapter 9. Strategic Outsourcing
    18. Chapter 10. IT Workforce
    19. Chapter 11. Strategic Planning
    20. Chapter 12. IT Infrastructure Management and Execution
    21. Chapter 13. Budgeting
    22. Chapter 14. Marketing the Value of Information Technology
    23. Chapter 15. The Metrics of IT: Management by Measurement
    24. Chapter 16. Ladder of Business Intelligence: A Systematic Approach to Success for Information Technology
    25. Chapter 17. Communities of Practice: Continuing the Learning
    26. Index
    27. About the Authors
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