ABSTRACT

In a business world of uncertain budgets, relentless technology changes, scarce management talent, and intense production demands, theory is good, but practice sells. The Effective CIO: How to Achieve Outstanding Success through Strategic Alignment, Financial Management, and IT Governance is all about practice, successfully delivering the nuts-and-bolts for effective governance execution. It helps to dissolve the negative image many CIOs have as remote, purely rational decision machines, while demonstrating how to improve quality and throughput in your business.

This authoritative text includes governance checklists, sample IT controls, merger and acquisition recommendations, and a detailed framework for IT policies. Authored by two highly regarded IT management experts, the book provides not only a survey of existing strategies, but also includes detailed problem-solving ideas, such as how to structure optimal IT and telecom contracts with suppliers, the implications of SOP-98, and accounting for software costs.

The book seamlessly brings together two perspectives - that of a working CIO who must cope with day-to-day pressures for results, and that of an IT audit consultant with a special focus on governance and internal control. Unlike many other CIO-related books that merely discuss strategies, The Effective CIO includes easy-to-follow guidelines and governance principles that can be implemented immediately.

chapter 1|14 pages

Core Skills and Career Development

chapter 2|22 pages

Information Technology Governance

chapter 3|26 pages

Information Technology Finance

chapter 4|26 pages

Project Management

chapter 5|6 pages

Creating Good Enough Code

chapter 6|24 pages

Enterprise Architecture

chapter 7|10 pages

Mergers and Acquisitions

chapter 8|10 pages

Sourcing

chapter 9|22 pages

Business Intelligence and Analytics

chapter 10|18 pages

Security

chapter 11|6 pages

Training

chapter 12|8 pages

Effective Use of Consultants

chapter 13|8 pages

Operations

chapter 14|6 pages

Futures

chapter 15|18 pages

CIO Interviews