CIO Best Practices: Enabling Strategic Value With Information Technology, 2nd Edition

About the Contributing Authors xix

Chapter 1 Freedom with Fences: Robert Stephens Discusses CIO Leadership and IT Innovation 1

The CIO Leadership Paradox 1

The Fences 5

Rules and Innovative Augmentation 13

The CIO and Enterprise Culture 16

Radical Transparency 20

Proactive Risk Practices 23

The CIO and the Customer 26

The IT Organization 34

Notes 39

Chapter 2 Why Does IT Behave the Way It Does? 41

Making Sense of IT Business Management 41

Putting the Pieces Together 63

Changing the Way IT Behaves 86

Notes 97

Chapter 3 Cloud Computing and the New Economics of Business 99

A Combination of Technologies Create Cloud Computing 100

Some Working Defi nitions of Cloud Computing 101

Cloud Computing Has Three Component Layers 102

Implications of the Transition to Cloud Computing 104

A Business Strategy Based on Agility 108

Using the Cloud for Business Advantage 111

Business Applications with the Greatest Potential 112

Cloud Risk Considerations 115

Cloud Cost Considerations 118

Case Study: Selling "Designer Chocolates" 120

Desirable Characteristics of New IT Architecture 123

Public Clouds, Private Clouds, and Hybrid Clouds 124

Issues to Consider When Thinking about Private Clouds 128

The Cloud is a Platform for Managing Business Processes 131

Automate Routine Processes, Focus People on Handling Exceptions 134

Four Technologies Enable Responsive Business Processes 136

Notes 139

Chapter 4 Leading with Green: Expanding the CIO's Role in Eco-Effi cient Information Technology Adoption 141

What Is Green IT? 144

Who Cares about Green IT? 146

Green IT: A Quickly Maturing Management Discipline 147

Common Challenges Presented by Green 159

Role of Public Policy 165

Role of the CIO 167

Risks and Common Mistakes to Avoid 171

Summary 173

Notes 174

Chapter 5 Sustainability, Technology, and Economic Pragmatism: A View into the Future 177

Sustainability 177

Globalization, Decentralization, and Sustainability 179

Future Opportunities for Improving Global IT Sustainability 187

Mobility 203

Ubiquity: Pervasive Computing, Ubiquitous Sensors, and Ad Hoc Communications 212

Energy: Smart Buildings, Renewables, and Campus Sustainability 215

Physical Security and Information Assurance 217

Integrating Sustainability into Strategic Planning 220

The Future Lies before Us 232

Notes 233

Chapter 6 How to Measure and Manage Customer Value and Customer Profi tability 237

The Rising Need to Focus on Customers 238

A Foundation for Customer Portfolio Management 245

Distinguishing High from Low Economic Customer Value 255

Measuring Customer Lifetime Value 262

Balancing Shareholder Value with Customer Value 269

The CFO and CIO Must Shift Emphasis 275

Appendix 6A: Activity-Based Costing is a Cost Reassignment Network 280

Notes 282

Chapter 7 Evolution of Networks into Networking 285

Evolution of Networks into Networking: Computational, Data, Business, and Personal 285

Advances in Computational and Data Networks 289

Advances in Storage and Data Networks 291

Business Impacts of Business Networking 295

Business Impacts of Social Networking 299

Virtual Worlds: Second Life 302

Democratization and Socialization of Information 306

The Wisdom of Crowds? 309

The New Reality 311

Adapting to the New Reality 315

Role of IS/IT in Adapting to the New Reality 317

Notes 320

About the Editor 327

Index 329