
The Accidental CIO
A Lean and Agile Playbook for IT Leaders
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Narrated by:
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Liam Gerrard
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Scott Millett
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An indispensable guide showing IT leaders the way to balance the needs of innovation and exploration with exploitation and operational reliability
In The Accidental CIO, veteran software developer-turned-executive Scott Millett delivers an essential playbook to becoming an impactful, strategic leader at any stage of your IT leadership journey. You'll find a wealth of hands-on advice for tackling the many challenges and paradoxes that face technology leaders, from creating an aligned IT strategy, defining a target architecture, designing a balanced operating model, and leading teams and executing strategy.
After the foreword from Simon Wardley, The Accidental CIO will help you:
- Understand problem contexts you will face using the Cynefin decision making framework and how the philosophies of agile, lean, and design thinking can help manage them.
- Design an adaptive and strategically aligned operating model by applying the appropriate ways of working and governance approaches depending on each unique problem context.
- Develop and deploy an effective and aligned IT strategy using Wardley mapping based on a deep knowledge of your business architecture.
- And more
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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