Wiley CIO

On Top of the Cloud provides an actionable framework for developing and executing a profitable cloud strategy. The book focuses on nine specific critical areas where success is imperative: (1) Software as a Service (SaaS); (2) Platform as a Service (PaaS); (3) Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS); (4) People (Recruiting, Hiring, Training, Elevating); (5) Process Evolution; (6) Change Management; (7) Governance; (8) Security, (9) Strategic Sourcing. Each of the objectives is thoroughly explained in simple, straightforward language, accompanied by original graphics, charts and illustrations. All of the chapters are fleshed out with real-world stories and revealing anecdotes gathered from the authors exclusive interviews with dozens of colleagues, thought leaders and IT experts from major competitive organizations in markets all over the world.

Unleashing the Power of IT Bringing People, Business, and Technology Together describes in actionable detail, the new mindset, skill set, and tool set that are necessary for today's IT leaders to thrive in today's challenging environment. While other IT leadership books preach the latest theories, models, and fads (often at the safety of 30,000 feet), this book provides tangible, hard-hitting, real-world strategies, techniques and approaches that will immediately transform your IT workforce and culture. Each chapter will include tips and techniques, implementation frameworks and other practical guidance to get readers on the path to implementation. Chapter contents: 1. Creating Your 21st Century Workforce and Culture 2. Transforming Your IT Team 3. Building a Client-Focused IT Culture 4. Evolving Into the Role of Consultant 5. Negotiating: Getting What You Want Without Damaging the Relationship 6. Managing Projects the Science s Value 10. Driving Change With Intent 11. Sourcing and Vendor Management Appendix: Best Practice Case Studies.

The book will include separate chapters focused on CIO "case studies"-careful, detailed examinations of "All Star" IT leaders and their decision-making, with solid background on the business problem they were trying to solve and how they arrived at their decisions. The book will include candid personal reflections on those decision-making processes, and then provide analysis from a third party lens. It will be written in a narrative form to create a mystery-within-a-case-study feel and flow to the writing.