Book description
Enabling Strategic Value with Information Technology Second Edition
Anyone working in information technology today feels the
opportunities for creating and enabling lasting value. The CIO helps
define those opportunities and turn them into realities. Now in a
Second Edition, CIO Best Practices is an essential guide
offering real-world practices used by CIOs and other IT specialists
who have successfully mastered the blend of business and IT
responsibilities. Compiled and coauthored by Joe Stenzel, the new
edition presents a collection of pioneering and successful senior IT
executives-including Jonathan Hujsak, Bill Flemming, Mike Hugos, Karl
Schubert, and Gary Cokins-whose insights, drawn from years of
practical experience, shed new light on the strategic
opportunities?available for leadership structures within the IT organization.
For anyone who wants to achieve better returns on their IT
investments, CIO Best Practices, Second Edition presents the
leadership skills and competencies required of a CIO addressing
comprehensive enterprise strategic frameworks to fully leverage IT resources.
Filled with real-world examples of CIO success stories, the Second
Edition explores:
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CIO leadership responsibilities and opportunities
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The business impacts of both business and social networking, as
well as ways the CIO can leverage the new reality of human
connectivity on the Internet
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The increasingly inextricable relationships between customers,
employees, and their use of personal information technologies
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Emerging cultural expectations and standards outside the workplace
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Current CRM best practices in terms of the relationship between
customer preferences and shareholder wealth
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Enterprise energy utilization and sustainability
practices-otherwise known as Green IT-with all the best
practices collected here, in one place
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Best practices for one of the Internet's newest and most
revolutionary technologies: cloud computing and ways it is
shaping the new economics of business
This practical resource provides best practice guidance on the key
responsibilities of the CIOs and their indispensable executive
leadership role in modern enterprises of all sizes and industries. It
is the most definitive and important collection of best practices for
achieving and exercising strategic IT leadership for CIOs, those who
intend to become CIOs, and those who want to understand the strategic
importance of IT for the entire enterprise.
Joe Stenzel has worked as editor in chief of the
Journal of Strategic Performance Management and Cost
Management, and two Warren, Gorham, and Lamont periodicals since
2000. He has written or co-written four other books for John Wiley
& Sons: Essentials of Cost Management, From Cost to
Performance Management, CFO Survival Guide, and Lean
Accounting.
