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The Practical CIO: A Common Sense Guide for Successful IT Leadership

ISBN: 978-0-470-53190-7
Hardcover
272 pages
February 2010
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The IT executive's ultimate handbook for survival in a rapidly changing economy

The Practical CIO: A Common Sense Guide for Successful IT Leadership provides needed advice for modern executives competing in a challenging global environment.

  • Proactively establish goals for IT
  • Hold all vendors accountable
  • Extract maximum value from existing IT investments
  • Manage and market the IT brand
  • Build relationships up, down and sideways across the enterprise and beyond its traditional boundaries
  • Act like a CEO

Brimming with interviews and case studies from leading global enterprises such as Microsoft, Prudential, Citigroup, Chiquita Brands, Smithfield Foods and West Marine. The Practical CIO is designed for clear-eyed IT and C-level executives with no patience for hype or overly optimistic visions of a "better tomorrow." Truly a commonsense guide for successful IT leadership, this book delivers exactly the kind of hard-nosed, actionable advice that executives urgently require.

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