Confessions of a Successful CIO / Wiley CIO (PDF)

Be the most effective CIO you can be--by learning from the
best in the business

Today's Chief Information Officers must be an entirely new breed
of technology leader. With ever-changing demands from the business,
and in an increasingly technology-centric business environment,
CIOs must find game-changing innovations and process improvements
that make a real impact on the bottom line. Business executives
need their CIOs to be real partners--speaking the language of
the business and donning their strategist caps--not just
commodity managers. Those IT leaders who fail to break out of the
order-taker, utility manager mold will, simply put, be looking for
a new job.

In Confessions of a Successful CIO: How the Best CIOs Tackle
Their Toughest Business Challenges, current and future CIOs
will gain invaluable perspectives from the stories of today's best
IT leaders. These acclaimed leaders--each profiled in their
own chapter--explain the toughest business decision they had
to make, and how the outcome influenced and impacted their
leadership style. These in-depth anecdotes take the reader inside
some of the most challenging business climates imaginable and
chronicle how these elite CIOs made the decisions that
mattered.

* Read detailed case studies of how some of the best CIOs have
handled their most challenging business problems

* Learn how the best CIOs anticipate changes to their business
and respond--before the business comes knocking

* Explore how these top-flight CIOs make critical decisions
around strategy and IT to not only benefit their companies, but in
some cases, to save them from becoming obsolete.

* Analyze their perspectives on managing people, crises and
balancing the risks and rewards of their "bet the farm"
strategies

Confessions of a Successful CIO is the new playbook for
learning how to take risks, respond to crises, and create more
value from IT. Each chapter presents a different challenge, giving
present-day and future IT leaders the chance to examine, analyze
and learn so that they can be just as successful as the CIOs
they're reading about.