Confessions of a Successful 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.