Title: The Practical CIO
Description: 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.The EPUB format of this title may not be compatible for use on all handheld devices.
Subjects: Business, Nonfiction, Executives, Information technology, management