The Holistic Cio: How To Balance And Overcome Eight Critical Challenges For Today'S Cio

Being a chief information officer (CIO) is a challenging job, with overwhelming demands and expectations. The numerous ideas and tips in this book will help you navigate the CIO role. Whether your goal is to thrive, or merely to survive, you must balance: PROJECTS, delivering on time, on budget and with high quality, COSTS, maintaining acceptable IT cost levels relative to overall business budgets, RELIABILITY, providing acceptable up time, response time and security of key systems, SUPPORT, responding to customer and system needs for troubleshooting and preventative maintenance, INNOVATION, using technology to bring new business solutions to the table, PARTNERSHIPS, building and managing relationships with technology vendors, business partners and executives within your company, STAFFING, providing the necessary resource levels and skill sets, including outsourcing, and INDUSTRY COMPARISONS, gathering intelligence on the competition and performing well relative to competitive benchmarks. Today's CIO must address all of these eight elements to be successful. He/she must be "holistic" in approach to the job and its underlying responsibilities.

• | Author: Galen M. Metz
• | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Apr 11, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 106 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1542726417
• | ISBN-13: 9781542726412