Staying the Course as a CIO : How to Overcome the Trials and Challenges of IT Leadership
| Year of publication: |
2014
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| Authors: | Mitchell, Jonathan |
| Publisher: |
Hoboken : Wiley |
| Subject: | Führungskräfte | Managers | Anforderungsprofil | Occupational profile | Erfolgsfaktor | Success factor | Informationstechnik | Information technology | Stakeholder |
| Description of contents: | Table of Contents [gbv.de] |
| Extent: | Online-Ressource (234 p) |
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| Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record Staying the Course as a CIO; TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1 Dislocated Stakeholders; Wooden Poles with Holder; Because They're Worth It?; The Joys of Middle Management; Layers and Spans; Middle Managers and the Linkage between IT and the Business; The View from the Top of the Tree; Bored Boards; The Relationship Conundrum; The Henry VIII Method; The Customer/Supplier Model; Teamwork!; Could I Have Something Impossible Please?; The Dead-Hero Zone; Magicians, Circuses and Keeping Something in the Tank; CHAPTER 2 Pathogenic Projects; IT Projects are Harder than Climbing Everest Not Everyone Gets to be a PharaohDon't Start Anything You Can't Finish; Peaches Are not the Only Fruit; Ungrouping Group-Think; Mugging by PowerPoint; Back to the Himalayas; Stalinist Project Management; Undo-able Projects; Stalin's Special Question; Being Nostradamus; My Piece of String is Skewed; Things Can Go Badly Wrong, but They Rarely Go Badly Right; Inoculating against Skew-Percentile Therapy; What Happens in Projects Stays in Projects; The Gates of Wrath; Looking Up from the Pit; CHAPTER 3 Seriously Shaky Software; Software Just Doesn't Wo..; Being Immune to Tangerines The Unfortunate Side-Effect of Moore's LawIt Will be Fixed in the Next Release; Upgrade or You Will be Banished Naked to a World of Loneliness and Isolation; Belchware not Bloatware; Patched, Leaking and Lost in a Maze; The Wobbly Stack; Stabilising Shakiness; Safe Software; The Safe Software Game; Booking a Landing Slot at Heathrow; Don't Try to Improve a Da Vinci, Unless You Are a Rembrandt; Bespoke Only When You're Bespoken to; CHAPTER 4 Obsessive Outsourcing Compulsion; Outsourcing an Empire; Strains of Outsourcing Compulsion; Madness with Metrics Giving the Fox the Keys to the Chicken Coop …The Nineteenth Hole Contract; Dedicated Followers of Fashion; Finance is not about Engineering Anything; Contract Accounting and Runaway Trains; Faster than a Speeding Bullet …; The Capability Argument; The Economic Argument; Better Out than In?; Protecting the Crown Jewels; Everyone Needs to Win; In Summary; CHAPTER 5 Chronic Consultancy Syndrome; Consultants-The Hummingbirds of the IT Jungle; Survival of the Sharpest; Spotting Hummingbirds in the Wild; An Expensive Dose of Aviary Assistance; Predator or Prey?; What Consulting Isn't …? It Was Their Fault!The Magic of a Name; The Consultant's Crutch; But What Consulting Perhaps Should Be?; Forests, Trees and Spectacles; You Are not Alone on Planet Earth; Nothing New Under the Sun; Hummingbirds Flap Harder than Cash Cows; How Hummingbirds Turn into Cuckoos; Answer 1-The Cuckoo Consultancy End-Game Solution; Answer 2-The Thin-Edge-Wedge-End-Game Cash Cow; And Finally; CHAPTER 6 STRATEGY SCHIZOPHRENIA; A Beginner's Guide to World Domination; Types of Strategy; The Better Tomorrow; The Grand Plan; Strategy Schizophrenia-Balancing the Unbalanceable; Summary CHAPTER 7 BLEEDING BUDGETS |
| ISBN: | 978-1-118-96887-1 ; 978-1-118-96886-4 ; 978-1-118-96887-1 |
| Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
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