CIO Survival Guide: The Roles and Responsibilities of the Chief Information Officer - Hardcover

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Karl D. Schubert, PhD, is former senior vice president and chief operating officer of Zambeel, Inc., a network storage company headquartered in Fremont, California. Prior to joining Zambeel, Schubert was vice president and chief technical officer for Dell. Before joining Dell, he was a senior manager with IBM for fourteen years.

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Praise for the CIO Survival Guide

"This book makes all the right assumptions about where the partnership between business and technology should be going. CIO Survival Guide is right on target: get the infrastructure right and then leverage it for strategic and competitive advantage and make sure that you use the language of business to sell your effectiveness and vision. CIOs and technology managers that take Schubert s advice to heart will never again find themselves out in the corporate cold."
Stephen J. Andriole, PhD
Thomas G. Labrecque Professor of Business Technology, Villanova University
Former CTO and senior vice president of technology strategy at CIGNA Corp.

"Dr. Schubert weeds through the many possible leadership priorities that challenge this as yet undefined executive position and its responsibilities. Simply put, organizations that hire CIOs to merely deliver profit motivated, silver bullet technology will not survive in the long term; organizations must hire CIOs that first and foremost understand the business as a strategic partner and who use an organizational network of partnerships to leverage the right technology at the right time. This book guides IT professionals at all levels to become such a person, and it provides concrete ways for CEOs, CFOs, and other non IT executives to size up their current or prospective CIOs."
Joe and Catherine Stenzel
Editors in chief, Cost Management
Authors of CFO Survival Guide: Plotting the Course to Financial Leadership

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Few professions are more challenging than that of the CIO. The CIO is the go to person for all things IT; there s no other position in the company like it. For a CIO to succeed, he or she must be prepared for anything. The CIO Survival Guide lays out a strategic, step by step road map of successful skills and competencies for CIOs in today s demanding times.

In the simplest terms, CIOs are expected to translate the complex world of IT into a readily understandable set of ideas and solutions. The successful CIO translates and demonstrates IT possibilities into meaningful value creation for his or her company. Compiling the success stories of seasoned IT professionals at all levels in the industry especially senior IT operations and product development executives and managers CIO Survival Guide integrates their diverse experiences, observations, discussions, and research to identify the inherent obstacles of the position, as well as offer concrete advice to overcome the day to day, year to year challenges of the job. This vital blueprint to success not only guides readers through the changing role of the CIO and IT function planning, it also describes specific strategies for creating value.

Written to help CIOs and aspiring CIOs bolster their requisite skills and to help managers determine what they should expect from their CIOs, CIO Survival Guide examines:

• What CEOs really want in their CIOs
• How to develop positive working relationships with other key executives
• Ten questions the CIO must ask the CEO
• Creating the IT internal partnership network
• Evolving CIO expectations technologist or "businologist?"
• Ten questions the CIO should ask outsourced service providers
• The language of the industry
• Enterprise wide strategic planning
• CIO risk profile assessment
• Decisions a CIO should never make alone

To become the best, you must first learn from the best. Turn to the CIO Survival Guide for the leading advice in CIO leadership.