Managing IT as a Business: A Survival Guide for CEOs

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Managing IT as a Business: A Survival Guide for CEOs
by Mark Lutchen
from Wiley

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

• Must Buy if Upgrading from IT Management to CIO
  Great help for someone that has just upgraded
  from IT Management to a CIO role and needed to
  upgrade as well his agenda. Excellent source of inspiration
  and perfect guide for a profession that is still
  under transformation. Definitely a must have.
  The book is focused (and written by) on world class CIO positions,
  but I found it equally useful for smaller scale CIOs.
  It's exactly there that it lacks some information
  on the organization of smaller IT groups (<20... more info

• A Must-Read for Every CIO
  Excerpt from review on bsmDigest.com:
  "Mark Lutchen's groundbreaking book continues to influence technology leaders with its vision for building mature IT organizations. As more CIOs and CEOs grapple with the challenge of applying effective management processes to their increasingly critical technology organizations, this engaging book offers very practical advice for doing it successfully. Drawing on his experience both as an actual CIO managing a large, global IT organizations and as a management... more info

• Pragmatic and clear.
  I have only one simple statement - where were you Mark when I started my IT career 17 years ago? Today I would have been a CIO! I highly recommend this book for those starting out their careers in IT as it gives a big picture look to the field. Own it and refer to the clear and relevant graphics in the book.

• Insightful!
  In the fall of 2003, the Harvard Business Review published an article advancing the proposition that "IT doesn't matter." The article's author suggested that because IT was now a commodity, and everyone had it, it no longer conveyed any distinctive competitive advantage and therefore, strategically, did not matter. In fact, at many companies, IT doesn't matter as much as it should - not because it is a commodity that other companies also use, but because most companies don't get every potential benefit from... more info

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