The New Book "The Change Agent CIO: The CIO's Dynamic Role of Leading Digital Transformation" Introduction ~ Future of CIO

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The New Book "The Change Agent CIO: The CIO's Dynamic Role of Leading Digital Transformation" Introduction

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Digital CIOs have both vision and passion, capability and capacity for entering into the new world of the change and innovation.

Information technology is like the growth engine of the company, CIOs are accountable for the critical part of the business that is constantly changing and evolving. Contemporary CIOs should be capable of evolving leadership skills to not only match the pace with changes in technology and the pace at which an organization can effectively manage these changes but also proactively drive digital transformation based on their vision, passion, and leadership practices. Slideshare Presentation

Traditional CIOs are often perceived as tactical managers, controllers, or order takers. But digital CIOs need to be the “constructive disruptors” to break down silos and break through conventional wisdom. The purpose of this book “The Change Agent CIO: The CIO’s Dynamic Role of Leading Digitalization“ is to share insight into the multifaceted CO leadership disciplines and multidimensional change agenda of IT. The digital CIOs are in demand to “disrupt,” inspire changes and accelerate digital transformation. They are change agents to reinvent IT as the business growth engine, optimize business processes and structures, rejuvenate the corporate culture and communication, and raise their intellectual voice to lead change interactively, innovatively, and relentlessly.

Chapter 1 The Digital CIO as Change Agent: Change is inevitable, and the speed of change is accelerating. Often information abundance catalyzes change, and technology is the disruptive force behind major changes. Hence, in digital organizations, CIOs shouldn’t get pushed for changes; they are actually in a better position to play a role as the change agent.

Chapter 2 The Pervasive Change and Digitalization: Information is fluid, and digitalization is complex. It becomes complex if things do interact, particularly in the case of "non-linear" interaction and interdependent relationship. As the matter of fact, the pervasiveness of changes and the effects of an increasingly digitized world are now reaching into every corner of businesses and every aspect of organizations.

Chapter 3 The Digital IT Change Agenda: Digital businesses become more dynamic and hyperconnected, change is the new normal with the faster pace and higher velocity. IT faces an unprecedented opportunity to refine its reputation, also needs to take more responsibility as a true business partner. CIOs have to get IT change agenda ready, have access to both internal and external resources for achieving the desired ROI and running high-performance digital IT organization effortlessly.

Chapter 4 The Digital IT Change Practices: The digital era upon us is about increasing pace of changes and continuous disruptions, IT is in a unique position to lead changes because they can oversee the whole organizational processes and they should have the management skills to implement digital transformation programs successfully. Thus, in forward-looking organizations, IT has become synonymous with the change department. Change Management needs to be the mechanism embedded in the multitude of IT management disciplines, in order to run IT as a change agent.

Chapter 5 IT Innovation and Intrapreneurship: Nowadays, IT is the business in the business and the digital engine of the entire organization. The role of CIO continues to evolve rapidly in the midst of the information abundance and technology-driven digital disruptions. Forward-looking IT organizations should practice intrapreneurship for running IT as a software startup, promote and sustain organizational performance, renewal and corporate competitiveness.

Chapter 6 The Digital Change Agents: Change is the new normal with increasing speed. Change Management is about mentoring the human side of the business through the profound and unsettling change. Therefore, change agents are critical, as they have been an invaluable source of courage, knowledge, business direction and insight. They are business influencers and the company brand advocates.

Chapter 7 Avoid Pitfalls to Run Dynamic Digital IT: The world is becoming more complex but smaller every day and as the consequence, every successful business has to sooner or later step into the uncharted water and blurred business territories. It brings both significant opportunities and unprecedented risks to the business’s surviving and thriving. The CIO as the digital leader needs to understand and overcome pitfalls on the way in order to run a high-performance digital IT organization.

Chapter 8 Play the Number Game Wisely: “You can’t manage it if you don’t measure it” is an old adage for modern business management. A performance measurement system is a necessary foundation for continuous improvement. Because without measurements, it can be hard to tell whether attempted improvements make the situation better or worse. In fact, it is dangerous to impose metrics just because the focus on what’s measurable is manageable. It is not the measurement that is important; it is what you do with the data obtained from the measurement.