Description
Becoming an effective IT manager presents a host of challenges–from anticipating emerging technology to managing relationships with vendors, employees, and other managers. A good IT manager will have to also be a strong business leader.
This book invites you to accompany new CIO Jim Barton to better take note the role of IT in your organization. You’ll see Jim struggle through a challenging first year, handling (and fumbling) situations that, even though fictional, are according to true events.
You can read this book from starting to end, or treat is as a series of cases. You’ll also skip around to address your most pressing needs. As an example, wish to learn about crisis management and security? Read chapters 10-12. You’ll formulate your own responses to a CIO’s obstacles by reading the authors’ regular “Reflection” questions.
You’ll turn to this book again and again as you face IT-related issues in your own career.