The practical CIO: a common sense guide for successful it leadership

This book is designed for clear-eyed IT and C-level executives with no patience for hype or overly optimistic visions of a better tomorrow. Todays IT executives need help now, and this book provides exactly the kind of hard-nosed, actionable advice that they urgently require. Case studies of international companies are used throughout the book (e.g., IBM, Microsoft, SAP, HP, Dell, Sony,GE, Accenture, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, and General Motors). The tentative contents is (1) Build a great team; (2) Proactively establish goals forIT; (3) Hold all of your vendors accountable; (4) Extract maximum value from existing IT investments; (5) Make sure that everyone knows that you are responsible and accountable; (6) Build and manage relationships up, down and sideways across the enterprise and beyond its traditional boundaries; (7) Act like a CEO; and (8) Looking to the Future.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-53190-7
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 272
• Fecha Publicación: 17/02/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés