Incorporating the latest business thinking, Changing the IT Leader's Mindset explains how the IT Leader can strike this balance, evolve into the CTO—Chief Transformation Officer—and really contribute to the development and success of business enterprises.
Although the typical aspects of the stereotypical IT Leader are extremely valuable, they are often regarded as incompatible, not only with the Board, but also with modern business strategy, which now tends to emerge through a process of ongoing dialogue in response to ill-defined, dynamic, and often unpredictable market conditions.
In order to break into the Board’s confidence and help to lead their organization, CIOs must now become masters of the soft skills and deal with imperfectly seizing the unknown rather than working to perfect the known.
Incorporating the latest business thinking, this book explains how the IT Leader can strike this balance, evolve into the CTO—Chief Transformation Officer—and really contribute to the development and success of business enterprises.
By employing key steps and reflective points, this book provides useful tools and sound advice to help you get to grips with balancing soft skills with hard techniques, letting you break out of the IT stereotype and bring innovation into the inner sanctum of your organisation.
It does not try to paint the necessary personal transition as a simplistic process or procedure but focuses on an understanding of human nature and evolutionary psychology.
With these key insights into the corporate environment (and more), you will be able to transform your outlook. By showing you how to build on your foundations and be flexible in your approach, this book will help you open all business-doors to success and become an engine for innovation in your organisation.
Dr Robina Chatham has 14 years’ experience in IT culminating with the position of CIO for a leading Merchant Bank. She is a Visiting Fellow at Cranfield School of Management and also runs her own training consultancy specialising in helping senior IT managers to increase their personal impact at board level. Last year she was voted a medalist for the BCS IT industry award ‘IT Consultant of the Year’.
Dr Brian Sutton has over 30 years’ experience of running engineering and IS projects having managed major initiatives and projects varying in size from hundreds of thousands of pounds to tens of millions of pounds. He was formerly a Professor of Systems Management in the Information Resources Management College of the National Defense University in Washington DC and is currently a visiting professor with the Institute for Work Based Learning at Middlesex University.