Leading with IT: Lessons from Singapore's First CIO - Rilegato

Siow, Alex

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ISBN 10: 1119797403 ISBN 13: 9781119797401

Casa editrice: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2021

Riassunto

Explore the insights of a world-leading CIO as he expounds on the challenges faced by technology executives and how to overcome them

As the pace of change in business continues to rapidly accelerate, Chief Information Officers and Chief Technology Officers are often left with accountability for future-proofing their organizations. Renowned professor, executive, and author Alex Siow shows you how you can meet that challenge while managing the information overload that often accompanies these positions.

In Leading with IT: Lessons from Singapore’s First CIO, the author uses his expansive and impressive experience in academia and industry to lead you down a path to achieving success as a CIO or CTO. Filled with practical tips, case studies, and personal insights, the book discusses:

• The management of legacy information and telecommunications technology
• The information overload often suffered by technology executives
• How to motivate and mentor a workforce
• How to manage change effectively
• The fostering of innovation
• The future of money, work, and artificial intelligence

Perfect for CIOs, CTOs, and the executives, managers, and employees who work with and for them, Leading with IT delivers an engaging and insightful exploration of what it takes to achieve astounding results at the intersection of technology and business.

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Informazioni sull?autore

ALEX SIOW is a Professor in the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore (NUS), and Director of NUS's Advanced Computing for Executives. He is also Strategic Advisor to Nityo Infotech, and Chairman of Toffs Technologies.

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As the pace of change in the world of business continues to accelerate, Chief Information Officers and Chief Technology Officers are required to juggle a seemingly impossible array of tasks while keeping abreast of new industry developments that pop up every single day. No one understands these challenges better than Alex Siow, renowned professor, executive, and CIO. He delivers a masterful narrative of the lessons he learned as CIO of the Housing Development Board, and later, as CIO of telecommunications company StarHub, in Leading With IT: Lessons from Singapore's First CIO.

In this "how-to" book written for the next generation of CIOs, CTOs, and other executives who work closely with technology, Siow offers practical tips, case studies, and personal insights that shed light on the central competencies required of CIOs. He discusses issues in the management of legacy information and telecommunications technology, information overload, motivation and mentoring, change management, fostering innovation, and the future of money, work, and artificial intelligence.

Anyone with interest in leading men and women in business, whether it be from within the ICT industry or outside of it, will learn from the indispensable lessons and examples provided by the author in this book. Timely and up to date, Siow offers an engaging guest chapter on the lessons to be learned from the COVID-19 crisis.

With a Foreword written by Dr. Tan Chin Nam, the pioneer of civil service computerisation in Singapore???and perfect for an audience that includes CIOs, CTOs, general business readers, undergraduate, graduate, and MBA students, IT professionals, and government leaders???Leading With IT will earn a place in the libraries of anyone with even a passing interest in the intersection of technology and business.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1119797403
• ISBN 13: 9781119797401
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 273
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile