Produktbild: Staying the Course as a CIO

Staying the Course as a CIO How to Overcome the Trials and Challenges of It Leadership

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Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

31.12.2014

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc

Seitenzahl

232

Maße (L/B/H)

23,5/15,7/1,7 cm

Gewicht

495 g

Auflage

1. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-118-96887-1

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Rezension

"If you are a CIO or thinking about taking on the position, this book should be on your list of essential reading....it is an excellent book" (BCS, February 2015)

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

31.12.2014

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc

Seitenzahl

232

Maße (L/B/H)

23,5/15,7/1,7 cm

Gewicht

495 g

Auflage

1. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-118-96887-1

Herstelleradresse

Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

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  • Produktbild: Staying the Course as a CIO
  • INTRODUCTION xi
     
    CHAPTER 1 Dislocated Stakeholders 1
     
    Wooden Poles with Holder 2
     
    Because They're Worth It? 4
     
    The Joys of Middle Management 10
     
    Layers and Spans 11
     
    Middle Managers and the Linkage between IT and the Business 13
     
    The View from the Top of the Tree 16
     
    Bored Boards 18
     
    The Relationship Conundrum 19
     
    The Henry VIII Method 20
     
    The Customer/Supplier Model 20
     
    Teamwork! 23
     
    Could I Have Something Impossible Please? 26
     
    The Dead?]Hero Zone 26
     
    Magicians, Circuses and Keeping Something in the Tank 28
     
    CHAPTER 2 Pathogenic Projects 31
     
    IT Projects are Harder than Climbing Everest 33
     
    Not Everyone Gets to be a Pharaoh 36
     
    Don't Start Anything You Can't Finish 38
     
    Peaches Are not the Only Fruit 39
     
    Ungrouping Group?]Think 40
     
    Mugging by PowerPoint 42
     
    Back to the Himalayas 43
     
    Stalinist Project Management 44
     
    Undo?]able Projects 44
     
    Stalin's Special Question 45
     
    Being Nostradamus 49
     
    My Piece of String is Skewed 51
     
    Things Can Go Badly Wrong, but They Rarely Go Badly Right 52
     
    Inoculating against Skew--Percentile Therapy 54
     
    What Happens in Projects Stays in Projects 56
     
    The Gates of Wrath 58
     
    Looking Up from the Pit 62
     
    CHAPTER 3 Seriously Shaky Software 63
     
    Software Just Doesn't Wo.. 65
     
    Being Immune to Tangerines 70
     
    The Unfortunate Side?]Effect of Moore's Law 72
     
    It Will be Fixed in the Next Release 74
     
    Upgrade or You Will be Banished Naked to a World of Loneliness and Isolation 75
     
    Belchware not Bloatware 77
     
    Patched, Leaking and Lost in a Maze 79
     
    The Wobbly Stack 81
     
    Stabilising Shakiness 84
     
    Safe Software 85
     
    The Safe Software Game 86
     
    Booking a Landing Slot at Heathrow 88
     
    Don't Try to Improve a Da Vinci, Unless You Are a Rembrandt 89
     
    Bespoke Only When You're Bespoken to 92
     
    CHAPTER 4 Obsessive Outsourcing Compulsion 95
     
    Outsourcing an Empire 97
     
    Strains of Outsourcing Compulsion 101
     
    Madness with Metrics 102
     
    Giving the Fox the Keys to the Chicken Coop ... 103
     
    The Nineteenth Hole Contract 105
     
    Dedicated Followers of Fashion 106
     
    Finance is not about Engineering Anything 108
     
    Contract Accounting and Runaway Trains 110
     
    Faster than a Speeding Bullet ... 113
     
    The Capability Argument 113
     
    The Economic Argument 114
     
    Better Out than In? 115
     
    Protecting the Crown Jewels 117
     
    Everyone Needs to Win 121
     
    In Summary 124
     
    CHAPTER 5 Chronic Consultancy Syndrome 125
     
    Consultants--The Hummingbirds of the IT Jungle 126
     
    Survival of the Sharpest 128
     
    Spotting Hummingbirds in the Wild 129
     
    An Expensive Dose of Aviary Assistance 130
     
    Predator or Prey? 131
     
    What Consulting Isn't ...? 132
     
    It Was Their Fault! 133
     
    The Magic of a Name 134
     
    The Consultant's Crutch 135
     
    But What Consulting Perhaps Should Be? 135
     
    Forests, Trees and Spectacles 137
     
    You Are not Alone on Planet Earth 139
     
    Nothing New Under the Sun 141
     
    Hummingbirds Flap Harder than Cash Cows 142
     
    How Hummingbirds Turn into Cuckoos 143
     
    Answer 1--The Cuckoo Consultancy End?]Game Solution 147
     
    Answer 2--The Thin?]Edge?]Wedge?]End?]Game Cash Cow 147
     
    And Finally 148
     
    CHAPTER 6 STRATE