Great CIOs consistently exceed key stakeholders' expectations and maximize the business value delivered through their company's technology. What's their secret? Sure, IT professionals need technological smarts, plus an understanding of their company's goals and the competitive landscape. But the best of them possess a far more potent ability: they forge good working relationships with everyone involved in an IT-enabled project, whether it's introducing new hardware or implementing a major business transformation. In The CIO Edge, the authors draw on Korn/Ferry International's extensive empirical data on leadership competencies as well as Gartner's research on IT trends and the CIO role. They prove that, for IT leaders, mastering seven essential skills yields big results. This new book lays out the people-to-people leadership competencies that the highest-performing CIOs have in common—including the ability to inspire others, connect with a diverse array of stakeholders, value others' ideas, and manifest caring in their relationships. The authors then explain how to cultivate each defining competency. Learn these skills, and you'll get more work done through others' enabling you to successfully execute more IT projects, generate better results for your company, and concentrate your efforts where they'll exert the most impact. The payoff? As the authors show, you'll work smarter, not harder—and get promoted far faster than your peers.

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Machiavellians are few in number in IT. The massive pressure on CIOs continues to increase as the opportunities to use technology in business become more prevalent and more competitive. As CIOs often find themselves at the center of business conflict, they must not only familiarize themselves with Machiavellian tactics as a defensive weapon, but also learn to use them as an offensive weapon in extreme situations so that they can increase IT's contribution to their enterprises. As Italian political philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli implied, you're either predator or prey, and the animal you most resemble determines your position on the food chain. In The Wolf in CIO's Clothing Gartner analyst and author Tina Nunno expands on Machiavelli's metaphor, examining seven animal types and the leadership attributes of each. Nunno posits the wolf -- a social animal with strong predatory instincts -- as the ideal example of how a leader can adapt and thrive. Technology may be black and white, but successful leadership demands an ability to exist in the grey. Drawing on her experience with hundreds of CIOs, Nunno charts a viable way to master the Machiavellian principles of power, manipulation, love, and war. Through compelling case studies, her approach demonstrates how CIOs and IT leaders can adjust their leadership styles in extreme situations for their own success and that of their teams.

EDGE: The Agile Operating Model That Will Help You Successfully Execute Your Digital Transformation “[The authors’] passion for technology allows them to recognize that for most enterprises in the 21st century, technology is THE business. This is what really separates the EDGE approach. It is a comprehensive operating model with technology at its core.” —From the Foreword by Heidi Musser, Executive Vice President and Principal Consultant, Leading Agile; retired, Vice President and CIO, USAA Maximum innovation happens at the edge of chaos: the messy, risky, and uncertain threshold between randomness and structure. Operating there is uncomfortable but it’s where organizations “invent the future.” EDGE is a set of fast, iterative, adaptive, lightweight, and value-driven tools to achieve digital transformation, and EDGE: Value-Driven Digital Transformation is your guide to using this operating model for innovation. Jim Highsmith is one of the world’s leading agile pioneers and a coauthor of the Agile Manifesto. He, Linda Luu, and David Robinson know from their vast in-the-trenches experience that sustainable digital transformation requires far more than adopting isolated agile practices or conventional portfolio management. This hard, indispensable work involves changing culture and mindset, and going beyond transforming the IT department. EDGE embraces an adaptive mindset in the face of market uncertainty, a visible, value-centered portfolio approach that encourages continual value linkages from vision to detailed initiatives, incremental funding that shifts as strategies evolve, collaborative decision-making, and better risk mitigation. This guide shows leaders how to use the breakthrough EDGE approach to go beyond incremental improvement in a world of exponential opportunities. Build an organization that adapts fast enough to thrive Clear away unnecessary governance processes, obsolete “command and control” leadership approaches, and slow budgeting/planning cycles Improve collaboration when major, fast-paced responses are necessary Continually optimize investment allocation and monitoring based on your vision and goals Register your product for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.

The Chief Information Officer (CIO) plays a crucial role in today's business climate as the conductor of the complex and dynamic digital symphony that determines the fate of organizations. The book " The CIO Expedition: Mastering the Digital Leadership in IT" explores the inner workings of this arrangement, revealing the intricate interplay of duties, developments, and necessary skills that characterize the CIO's position in the digital age. The book delves into the duties and essential skills that distinguish the contemporary CIO in spearheading digital transformation. It explores the history of the CIO position and shows how it developed into a crucial strategic component for businesses. Trends and tactics influence the basis of a harmonious digital environment in IT governance and organizational structure. We encourage readers to investigate how CIOs handle these crucial components, adjusting to the constantly shifting environment to guarantee peak performance and alignment with corporate goals. We look at the strategic frameworks and designs that drive CIO leadership and point enterprises toward IT excellence. Through the book, readers can discover how CIOs strategically arrange themselves to manage resources, foster innovation, and negotiate the challenges of the digital world. The critical role that CIO leadership plays in promoting smooth business-IT coordination is emphasized, assuring that technology is an essential component of the broader company plan rather than merely a tool. The book also delves into the complex idea of business-IT alignment, examining its definition, associated difficulties, and indisputable benefits. Readers will see how CIOs handle this complex alignment to promote corporate performance and discover the keys to creating synergy while coordinating IT and business goals to provide unmatched values. Techniques and perspectives are examined to enable CIOs to improve their companies via peaceful cooperation. The unraveling of the intricate threads of IT governance, strategy, and leadership defines the journey of the CIO. The book guides readers on a strategic journey through the IT frontier, guided by the CIO's vision for evolution, synergy, and success, shedding light on the significance of good navigation of the IT landscape for attaining organizational goals. Investigating the worldwide aspects of IT administration occurs when CIOs engage in strategic leadership across international borders. The potential and challenges of managing IT globally are explored, providing readers with a thorough grasp of an ever-changing environment.The book looks ahead, emphasizing innovation and new technologies in the CIO space. It shows how CIOs keep ahead of the curve by adopting cutting-edge technologies to spur innovation and preserve a competitive edge. Lastly, through incisive case studies highlighting effective CIOs, theoretical notions are finally anchored in actual situations. These case studies present real-world implementations of the tactics and ideas the book covers, providing insightful insights for both seasoned and novice CIOs. As the book delves into the nuances of CIO leadership and composes the digital symphony to create a future where businesses thrive in the constantly changing world of technology and business, readers are cordially invited to embark on a transforming journey.

The NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "Dynamics, Transport am. Photochemistry in the Middle Atmosphere of the Southern Hemisphere" was held in San Francisco, California, U.S.A., 15-17 April 1989. In addition to NATO, the workshop was supported by the University of California, Los Angeles, and by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S.A. (NASA). The American Meteorological Society was a co-operating organization. The venue for the workshop was the Lone Mountain Conference Center of the University of San Francisco. The workshop was organized and directed by Dr A.O'Neill (Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, Meteorological Office, Bracknell, U.K.) and Prof C.R. Mechoso (Dept of Atmospheric Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, U.S.A.). The workshop was the third one held as part of the Middle Atmosphere in the Southern Hemisphere (MASH) project, an international effort (under the auspices of the Middle Atmosphere Program) to learn more about dynamics, transport and photochemistry in the middle atmosphere of the southern hemisphere. Before the discovery that, during recent years, a dramatic thinning of the ozone layer takes place over Antarctica in spring - the "ozone hole" - the middle atmosphere of the southern hemisphere had received much less attention than that of the northern hemisphere from meteorologists and atmospheric chemists. The MASH project was instituted to remedy this comparative lack of interest.