The effective CIO: how to achieve outstanding success through strategic alignment, financial management, and IT governance
Core skills and career development -- IT governance -- IT finance -- Project management -- Creating good enough code -- Enterprise architecture -- Mergers and acquisitions -- Sourcing -- Business intelligence and analytics -- Security -- Training -- Effective use of consultants -- Operations -- Futu...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Core skills and career development -- IT governance -- IT finance -- Project management -- Creating good enough code -- Enterprise architecture -- Mergers and acquisitions -- Sourcing -- Business intelligence and analytics -- Security -- Training -- Effective use of consultants -- Operations -- Futures -- CIO interviews |
| Beschreibung: | XX, 329 S. Ill., graph. Darst. |
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Preface.........................................................................................................xiii
Acknowledgments.........................................................................................xv
The Authors..................................................................................................xix
1 Core Skills and Career Development.....................................................1
CIO Roles — A Sampler..............................................................................2
No One Is Planning Your Career.................................................................3
Strategic Planning........................................................................................6
Technical Expertise......................................................................................8
The Generations...........................................................................................8
What Affects Compensation?......................................................................9
CIO Viruses...............................................................................................11
The Magic AND .....................................................................................12
References..................................................................................................13
2 Information Technology Governance..................................................15
CIO Success Pills — For Best Results, Take with Governance..................15
Alignment — How to Avoid Growing Weeds............................................16
First Step — Make Sure a Business Strategy Exists.....................................16
Prioritization.............................................................................................. 9
Alignment Tools........................................................................................19
Value Delivery...................................................................................22
IT Risk Management........................................................................23
Compliance...............................................................................................24
Ten Steps to Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance........................................25
Resource Management...............................................................................31
Performance Management.........................................................................31
The Nut-and-Bolt Stuff— Managing Your Own Department with
Governance................................................................................................32
References..................................................................................................34
VII
3 Information Technology Finance.........................................................37
Budgeting..................................................................................................38
Constructing the Budget..........................................................................40
Rational Buying.........................................................................................43
Managing the IT Investment....................................................................46
SOP No. 98-1............................................................................................50
Cost Management.....................................................................................52
Gray Areas and the Tilt.............................................................................54
Chargeback................................................................................................56
Looking Financially Smart........................................................................57
Managing Contracts..................................................................................59
Summary...................................................................................................61
References..................................................................................................62
4 Project Management.............................................................................63
Project Organization.................................................................................64
Systems Development Methodologies........................................................65
Model #1: Informal Approach — Code First, Fix Later....................65
Model #2: Traditional Approach — Waterfall..................................67
Model #3: Rapid Prototyping/Rapid Application Development
(RAD)..............................................................................................68
Model #4: Agile Methodologies........................................................68
Model #5: Rational Unified Process (RUP)......................................71
Model #6: Out of Scope/Embedded Project.....................................73
Project Dynamics......................................................................................73
Why Do Projects Fail?......................................................................73
Planning the Work...........................................................................75
Project Risk Assessment....................................................................76
Scope of the Job — The Program Management Office s (PMO)
Dilemma....................................................................................................81
A Practitioner s Perspective........................................................................83
The Future of Project Management............................................................86
References..................................................................................................86
5 Creating Good Enough Code...............................................................89
How Do You Do Good Code?...................................................................89
How Important Are Coding Standards?...................................................90
Toolboxes Are Useful.................................................................................91
Some Example Guidelines.........................................................................91
Release Philosophy.....................................................................................91
Porting.......................................................................................................92
The Ultimate Answer — Hire Good Developers and Keep Them Happy ...93
References..................................................................................................93
6 Enterprise Architecture........................................................................95
Develop the Business Model......................................................................98
Business Drivers and Selling the Enterprise Architecture (EA)................100
Information Architecture and Process Modeling Perspective...................101
Technology Architecture Perspective.......................................................105
Road Map to an Effective Architecture....................................................107
Business Architecture......................................................................107
IT Architecture...............................................................................108
Pushing Out the EA — Communicating with Management and
Employees................................................................................................109
The Outsourcing Alternative...........................................................110
Tools...............................................................................................Ill
Enforcement and Governance of the EA.........................................Ill
Architectural Maturity.............................................................................114
Putting It All Together............................................................................116
References................................................................................................118
7 Mergers and Acquisitions...................................................................119
The CIO s Golden Opportunity...............................................................120
The CIO s Two Responsibilities...............................................................120
Responsibility #1: Due Diligence....................................................120
Staff Due Diligence...............................................................123
Responsibility #2: IT Integration....................................................124
One Approach to Integration.................................................126
Success Factors.........................................................................................128
References................................................................................................128
8 Sourcing.............................................................................................129
The Pendulum of Opinion.......................................................................129
The Traditional Pros and Cons................................................................130
Pro — From the Provider s Perspective...........................................130
Con — From the Customer s Perspective.......................................131
To Outsource or Not to Outsource?........................................................133
Xshoring..................................................................................................134
The Proximity Factor......................................................................135
Keeping Xshoring and Sourcing in Perspective...............................136
Sourcing Is More Than IT Services.................................................137
References................................................................................................137
9 Business Intelligence and Analytics...................................................139
Getting Started — Selling Business Intelligence (BI)...............................140
Value Proposition............................................................................141
Core Components....................................................................................145
Data Warehouse.......................................................................................145
A Data Warehouse Alternative........................................................147
Predictive Analytics and Data Mining.....................................................148
The Nuts and Bolts of Predictive Analytics.....................................150
Data Mining...................................................................................151
Survey of Business Uses...........................................................................151
Security and Data Quality..............................................................151
Effective Implementation.........................................................................153
Distributing the Intelligence...........................................................155
Organizational Structure................................................................156
Roadblocks.....................................................................................156
What Elephant?..............................................................................158
The Bottom Line......................................................................................158
References................................................................................................159
10 Security..............................................................................................161
The Sources of Risk.................................................................................162
It s about the Money — Script Kiddies Persona Non Grata.....................162
Defense in Depth.....................................................................................162
Tools and Defense Automation................................................................163
Frameworks....................................................................................165
Telephone Security...................................................................................166
A Checklist for Building Security............................................................167
Some Comments from Security Practitioners...........................................168
References................................................................................................176
11 Training..............................................................................................179
Tools........................................................................................................180
User Needs Vary......................................................................................181
How Much Training Is Needed?..............................................................181
Seminars or Vendor-Specific Training for IT...........................................182
The Harsh Punishment of Silo Knowledge..............................................182
Knowledge Management.........................................................................183
12 Effective Use of Consultants...............................................................185
Becoming a Skilled Buyer of Professional Services...................................185
On One Side of the Table: The Consultant s Objective...................186
On the Other Side of the Table: The CIO s Objective.....................186
Matching Interests...................................................................................187
Some Miscellaneous Defense Tactics.......................................................189
Knowledge Transfer.................................................................................191
A Few Closing Comments about Consultants.........................................191
Reference.................................................................................................191
13 Operations..........................................................................................193
Tree Houses Are Great for Kids...............................................................193
Management Frameworks........................................................................193
Change, Configuration, and Release Management..................................194
Help Desk, Incident and Problem Management......................................195
Capacity Management, Service Levels, Availability, Job Scheduling........195
Day-to-Day Management........................................................................197
Some Common-Sense Approaches to Good Operations..........................197
Cloud Computing...................................................................................198
The Bottom Line — Discipline................................................................199
References................................................................................................199
14 Futures................................................................................................201
Society and Demographics.......................................................................202
Technology..............................................................................................203
References...............................................................................................206
15 CIO Interviews...................................................................................207
Appendices
A Examples of Key IT General Controls................................................225
B Examples of Key IT Application Controls..........................................231
C Project Management Artifact Examples.............................................237
D IT Risk Assessment Checklist............................................................247
E Due Diligence Checklist for Mergers and Acquisitions (Business) ....257
F Due Diligence Checklist for Mergers and Acquisitions — IT............281
G Example IT Policies and Direction for XYZ Corp ..........................285
H Recommended Reading......................................................................315
Index...........................................................................................................317
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