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The Innovative CIO How IT Leaders Can Drive Business Transformation
Author: Andi Mann, George Watt, Peter Matthews

The Chief Information Officer?s influence in the businessorganization has been waning for years. The rest of the C-suite has come toregard Information Technology as slow, costly, error-prone, boring, andunresponsive to business needs. This perception blinds company leaders to the criticalvalue of IT as a business asset and threatens the competit... more »ive health and long-termsurvival of their enterprise. The modern CIO must reassert the operational and strategic importanceof IT to the enterprise and reintegrate it with every department and level ofthe business from boardroom to mailroom. IT leaders must design, sell, andimplement a vigorous culture of IT competence and innovation pervading theenterprise, rooted in mandatory IT training programs in all departments, bidirectionalexchange across silos, and C-level policies that drive and incentivize technologyinnovation as the handmaiden and engine of business innovation. The authors, top international IT strategists and innovators,quantify the benefits and risks of IT innovation, survey and rank the myriadinnovation opportunities from mature, new, and emerging technologies, and identifythe organizational structures and processes that have been proven to deliverongoing innovation. Buttressing their brief with hundreds of case studies and specificexamples, The Innovative CIO showsyou how to ·Take advantage of the IT and business innovation opportunities beingcreated by new and emerging technologies·Shift IT innovation from afterthought to prime mover instrategic business planning ·Inject IT into the dynamic core of your organization?s culture,training, structure, practice, and policy What you?ll learn* Grasp the business basics of new information technologies: Virtualization Cloud Computing Consumer-Driven IT Bring-Your-Own-Device Personalization Process Automation Mobile Computing E-Commerce Big Data and Analytics Social Networking E-Collaboration * Judge the business opportunities presented by new and emerging technologies.* Deploy new technologies to create and release new products. * Use new technologies to penetrate and capture new markets. * Harness new technologies to accelerate M&A time-to-value and add shareholder value. * Apply new technologies to improve staff retention and productivity. Who this book is for The Innovative CIO targets all IT leaders?not only CIOs, but also VPs and directors of IT and IT operations, datacenter managers, and all other IT leaders who aspire to advance their careers as IT-providers to business leaders. This book serves secondarily as a guide to non-IT business leaders who are alert to the ways that IT can boost their abilities to innovate, to turbocharge their products, services, and processes, and to compete nimbly in fast-changing markets.

ISBN-13: 9781430244103
ISBN-10: 1430244100
Publication Date: 10/3/2012
Pages: 300
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Apress
Book Type: Paperback
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