In CIOs at Work, noted author Ed Yourdon interviews many of the
world's most influential chief information officers. You will gain
insights from the first CIO of the USA, take a peek into the future with
the CIO at Google, learn the unique role IT plays in testing Microsoft
applications, and much more.
Yourdon focuses on how his interviewees tackle the day-to-day work of
managing information in their organizations while revealing much more:
How they got there, how they manage and allocate resources, and how they
interact with business units and assure that their companies take
advantage of technologies and automation to make employees even more
productive. Surveying a variety of unique corporations, you'll get a
great sense of what can be done and what is being done now in
organizations around the world.
"Simply put, Ed Yourdon's CIOs at Work is a fascinating read. The
author has managed to illuminate the real challenges confronting the
Chief Information Officer. The technical expertise of his extraordinary
interviewees and their personal insights into the changing role of
technology in business are in no short supply. But, what really stands
out-- beyond the banter about "clouds," "agile development,"--is the
human dimension. More than anything else, the CIO is wrestling with
profound issues: the proliferation of choices, the speed of change, the
shorter attention spans of consumers, the "everyone's an expert"
mindset, and the growing expectation for limitless and low cost
computing resources that are as open and accessible as they are safe,
secure and accurate. At last, the CIO has a human face, but also an
enormous burden that can only be appreciated by reading Yourdon's
probative interviews." --Jon Toigo, Managing Principle, Toigo Partners
International
Featured CIOs:
Ben Fried, Google
Tony Scott, Microsoft
Monte Ford, American Airlines
Mittu Sridhara, Ladbrokes
Steve Rubinow, NYSE
Lew Temares (retired), University of Miami
Mark Mooney, McGraw-Hill
Dan Wakeman, Educational Testing Services
Lynne Ellen, Detroit Energy
Becky Blalock, Southern Company
Ken Bohlen, Arizona Public Services
Roger Gurnani, Verizon
Ashish Gupta, British Telecom
Joan Miller, U.K. Parliament
Vivek Kundra, (first CIO), U.S. Government
Paul Strassmann, (retired), Kraft Foods
Other books in the Apress At Work Series:
CTOs at Work, Donaldson, Seigel, & Donaldson, 978-1-4302-3593-4
Coders at Work, Seibel, 978-1-4302-1948-4
Venture Capitalists at Work, Shah & Shah, 978-1-4302-3837-9
Founders at Work, Livingston, 978-1-4302-1078-8
European Founders at Work, Santos, 978-1-4302-3906-2
Women Leaders at Work, Ghaffari, 978-1-4302-3729-7
Advertisers at Work, Tuten, 978-1-4302-3828-7
Gamers at Work, Ramsay. 978-1-4302-3351-0
