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

The Practical CIO: A Common Sense Guide for Successful ITLeadership provides needed advice for modern executivescompeting 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 enterpriseand beyond its traditional boundaries
• Act like a CEO

Brimming with interviews and case studies from leading globalenterprises such as Microsoft, Prudential, Citigroup, ChiquitaBrands, Smithfield Foods and West Marine. The Practical CIOis designed for clear-eyed IT and C-level executives with nopatience for hype or overly optimistic visions of a "bettertomorrow." Truly a commonsense guide for successful IT leadership, this book delivers exactly the kind of hard-nosed, actionableadvice that executives urgently require.