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Becoming an effective IT manager presents a host of challenges--from anticipating emerging technology to managing relationships with vendors, employees, and other managers. A good IT manager must also be a strong business leader.This book invites you to accompany new CIO Jim Barton to better understand the role of IT in your organization. You'll see Jim struggle through a challenging first year, handling (and fumbling) situations that, although fictional, are based on true events.You can read this book from beginning to end, or treat is as a series of cases. You can also skip around to address your most pressing needs. For example, need to learn about crisis management and security? Read chapters 10-12. You can formulate your own responses to a CIO's obstacles by reading the authors' regular "Reflection" questions.You'll turn to this book many times as you face IT-related issues in your own career.
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Adventures of an IT Leader, Robert Daniel Austin, Richard L. Nolan, Shannon O'Donnell
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- Released
- 2009
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- Title
- Adventures of an IT Leader
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Harvard Business Review Press
- Released
- 2009
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN10
- 142214660X
- ISBN13
- 9781422146606
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Business, Business & Management, Technology & Engineering, Computers & Internet, Technology, Management & HR, Leadership
- Rating
- 3.8 out of 5
- Description
- Becoming an effective IT manager presents a host of challenges--from anticipating emerging technology to managing relationships with vendors, employees, and other managers. A good IT manager must also be a strong business leader.This book invites you to accompany new CIO Jim Barton to better understand the role of IT in your organization. You'll see Jim struggle through a challenging first year, handling (and fumbling) situations that, although fictional, are based on true events.You can read this book from beginning to end, or treat is as a series of cases. You can also skip around to address your most pressing needs. For example, need to learn about crisis management and security? Read chapters 10-12. You can formulate your own responses to a CIO's obstacles by reading the authors' regular "Reflection" questions.You'll turn to this book many times as you face IT-related issues in your own career.