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How will Ian as the CIO react when the management team explores a very different relationship with IT? The strategy that emerges has major implications for the CIO and everyone in the IT department.
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Getting to the top table by letting go of the past,
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This review is from: fruITion: Creating the Ultimate Corporate Strategy for Information Technology (Perfect Paperback)
Chris Potts is a brave author, his new book - fruITion: Creating the Ultimate Corporate Strategy for Information Technology is a novel written around the story of a CIO and his IT strategy. Notwithstanding the dryness of the subject matter, this is an encouraging tale of courage and growth.fruITion tells the story of Ian, a CIO suddenly faced with a very different future when the Chief Executive rejects a carefully crafted IT strategy and "suggests" that Ian needs to make some serious changes, not only to the strategy but also to his own role within the organisation. And quickly. Ian has only a fortnight to sort himself out so this very readable book moves swiftly through a sequence of meetings and reflections that begin the transformation of Ian from IT-centric boardroom bystander to key business player. His biggest challenge is letting go of the past - and letting go of the boxes. For many years a large proportion of CIOs and directors have expressed their deep frustration at not being at the top table, or who feel that their management talents are overshadowed by the routine pressures of simply "keeping the lights on." I recommend this book because it offers a much brighter future for any directors and managers trapped in the bowels of the business. Read fruITion and resolve to be braver.
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Genius, and transformative.,
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This review is from: fruITion: Creating the Ultimate Corporate Strategy for Information Technology (Perfect Paperback)
Never before have I found a book on IT - and IT Management at that - so compelling. This is a hugely accessible book that you can get through in an evening. You will almost certainly want to come back to it though. The narrative style is disarming, and remarkable in that such a potentially dry book actually has a 'narrative style' at all. Far from being basic and patronizing, the concepts and philosophies delivered are extremely complex, but with a directness and clarity that assumes you are sensible enough to figure out what you don't know, and then go and research it elsewhere.As to the message of the book: I was inspired. Also relieved that there are newer ways of thinking about IT management.
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An excellent, easy to read book,
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This review is from: fruITion: Creating the Ultimate Corporate Strategy for Information Technology (Perfect Paperback)
Many organisations struggle over the best place for IT within the organisation and extracting the best business value from investment.In fruITion, respected CIO commentator Chris Potts sets out his views in a very easy to read fashion. His main themes are that having IT as a separate department has failed to deliver business benefits from investment, that IT should be (largely) integrated into the business units and that initiatives should be treated as business change projects rather than IT projects. He also concludes that there shouldn't be CIOs. Rather, there should be an individual (a Chief Internal Investment Officer) whose job it is to lead the internal investment portfolio, including all resulting business change, and be accountable for the value the organisation gets out of its investments. Whilst agreeing with much of what Chris Potts says, the aspect this doesn't consider is the role that IT has in innovation - bringing radically different ways of working to the organisation; not something that will generally come from within existing business units. The most obvious examples of this are Amazon in retail and Google with advertising (although innovation isn't always as ground breaking as this).
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