Confessions of a Successful CIO: How the Best Cios Tackle Their Toughest Business Challenges

ISBN-13: 9781118638224 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 192 str.

Dan Roberts; Brian Watson

Opis

Be the most effective CIO you can be--by learning from the best in the business Today's Chief Information Officers must be an entirely new breed of 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 improvements that make a real impact on the bottom line. Business executives need their CIOs to be real partners--speaking the language of the business and donning their strategist caps--not just commodity managers. Those IT leaders who fail to break out of the order-taker, utility manager mold will, simply put, be looking for a new job. In Confessions of a Successful CIO: How the Best CIOs Tackle Their Toughest Business Challenges, current and future CIOs will gain invaluable perspectives from the stories of today's best IT leaders. These acclaimed leaders--each profiled in their own chapter--explain the toughest business decision they had to make, and how the outcome influenced and impacted their leadership style. These in-depth anecdotes take the reader inside some of the most challenging business climates imaginable and chronicle how these elite CIOs made the decisions that mattered.

• Read detailed case studies of how some of the best CIOs have handled their most challenging business problems
• Learn how the best CIOs anticipate changes to their business and respond--before the business comes knocking
• Explore how these top-flight CIOs make critical decisions around strategy and IT to not only benefit their companies, but in some cases, to save them from becoming obsolete.
• Analyze their perspectives on managing people, crises and balancing the risks and rewards of their -bet the farm- strategies

Confessions of a Successful CIO is the new playbook for learning how to take risks, respond to crises, and create more value from IT. Each chapter presents a different challenge, giving present-day and future IT leaders the chance to examine, analyze and learn so that they can be just as successful as the CIOs they're reading about.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

DAN ROBERTS is a 30–year veteran of the IT industry and the CEO and President of Ouellette & Associates Consulting, Inc. He is a contributing author of several books, including Unleashing the Power of IT (Wiley, 2013) and Leading IT Transformation. Dan is a frequent keynote speaker at CIO and IT industry 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 CIO Insight and has contributed reporting and analysis to several media outlets focused on IT leadership. Since 2010, he has served as Director of Business Outreach for Workforce Opportunity Services (WOS), a 501c3 nonprofit company. He earned his Bachelor s degree from Bucknell University and a Master s degree from Northwestern University s Medill School of Journalism.

Blurb

PRAISE FOR CONFESSIONS OF A SUCCESSFUL CIO: HOW THE BEST CIOs TACKLE THEIR TOUGHEST BUSINESS CHALLENGES

Successful CIOs take on crazy challenges, solve amazingly complex problems, inspire others to join them, and use each experience to learn and grow. In telling their stories, Confessions of a Successful CIO offers aspiring leaders an engaging mix of inspiration and practical takeaways.
Abbie Lundberg, CIO analyst, writer, and adviser; former editor of CIO

Reading Confessions of a Successful CIO is like attending the best IT Leadership Conference you can imagine, except the only travel required is flipping the cover. You will spend much time thinking about these CIOs stories as they apply to your own world as you read the pages. A must read for any CIO, as well as anyone working for a CIO or aspiring to be one.
David Buckholtz, Vice President and Divisional CIO, Sony Pictures Entertainment

We learn so much from others experiences, and after reading this, I feel like I ve been allowed behind the scenes to meet and gain the insight of some truly amazing leaders. Nice work! This will be a must read for technology leaders in order for them to fully understand the criticality of establishing vision, taking risks, and most importantly that while technology and process are important people are the key.
Susan Courtney, Senior Vice President, Technology and Operations, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Nebraska

Reading about the challenges, plans, and execution of strategy that these nine phenomenal CIOs have experienced reminds me of J. F. Kennedy s Profiles in Courage. Yes, Profiles in Courage for IT executives. Being a CIO in this new millennium brings many challenges. The pace of change and half–life of business plans requires maximum flexibility, reliance on interdisciplinary teams, and courage to take action despite uncertainty. These CIOs accepted the challenge that their respective organizations presented them, leveraged their available resources, and took action!
Dennis L Heureux, Senior Vice President for IT Planning and CIO, Rockford Health System