
Digital Trailblazer: Essential Lessons to Jumpstart Transformation and Accelerate Your Technology Leadership
Essential Lessons to Jumpstart Transformation and Accelerate Your Technology Leadership
I Sacolick(Author)
Wiley (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 30. August 2022
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-1-119-89453-7 (ISBN)
Description
Invaluable stories and lessons that will help you tackle one of the most challenging jobs in technology and business - leading transformation
In Digital Trailblazer: Essential Lessons to Jumpstart Transformation and Accelerate Your Technology Leadership, Isaac Sacolick, a technology leadership expert and a former CIO and CTO, delivers a hands-on guide to help technology and business professionals at all stages of their careers acquire the skills necessary to drive transformative change. With an eye-opening collection of stories and more than 50 lessons, Sacolick gives readers a view into what goes on behind-the-scenes in leading digital transformations. From tense IT Ops conference calls to make-or-break executive meetings, Sacolick presents the challenging scenarios faced by product, technology, and data leaders and helps readers learn to lead transformations and become Digital Trailblazers.
In the book you will:
Step out of your comfort zone and develop the management and leadership skills required to influence executives and win over detractors in driving technology changes
Learn how to transform experiences, lead data driven organizations, and foster high performance teams
Discover how to deliver innovation, empower agile self-organization, and evolve standard digital practices that drive culture changes in your organization
A can't-miss resource for product, technology, and data leaders - from those aspiring to leadership roles through vice presidents, CIOs, CTOs, and CDOs, Digital Trailblazer delivers real-word stories and need-to-know lessons that will accelerate your technology leadership journey.
In Digital Trailblazer: Essential Lessons to Jumpstart Transformation and Accelerate Your Technology Leadership, Isaac Sacolick, a technology leadership expert and a former CIO and CTO, delivers a hands-on guide to help technology and business professionals at all stages of their careers acquire the skills necessary to drive transformative change. With an eye-opening collection of stories and more than 50 lessons, Sacolick gives readers a view into what goes on behind-the-scenes in leading digital transformations. From tense IT Ops conference calls to make-or-break executive meetings, Sacolick presents the challenging scenarios faced by product, technology, and data leaders and helps readers learn to lead transformations and become Digital Trailblazers.
In the book you will:
Step out of your comfort zone and develop the management and leadership skills required to influence executives and win over detractors in driving technology changes
Learn how to transform experiences, lead data driven organizations, and foster high performance teams
Discover how to deliver innovation, empower agile self-organization, and evolve standard digital practices that drive culture changes in your organization
A can't-miss resource for product, technology, and data leaders - from those aspiring to leadership roles through vice presidents, CIOs, CTOs, and CDOs, Digital Trailblazer delivers real-word stories and need-to-know lessons that will accelerate your technology leadership journey.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
495 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-119-89453-7 (9781119894537)
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Isaac Sacolick
Digital Trailblazer
Essential Lessons to Jumpstart Transformation and Accelerate Your Technology Leadership
E-Book
06/2022
1st Edition
Wiley
€17.99
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Isaac Sacolick
Digital Trailblazer
Essential Lessons to Jumpstart Transformation and Accelerate Your Technology Leadership
E-Book
06/2022
1st Edition
Wiley
€17.99
Available for download
Person
ISAAC SACOLICK is Founder and President of StarCIO, a technology learning company that guides leaders on digital transformation. A lifelong technologist, Isaac has served in startup CTO and transformational CIO roles. He founded StarCIO with the belief that agile ways of working and data-driven practices can empower diverse teams to drive transformation. He is a writer, keynote speaker, and author of the bestseller, Driving Digital: The Leader's Guide to Business Transformation Through Technology. He is a frequent contributor to InfoWorld and CIO.com where he writes about digital transformation, agile management, and other technology and leadership topics.
Content
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Transitioning to Leadership: What's a Cookie?
Chapter 2 Dev: Spaghetti Code and Technical Debt Is Now Your Problem
Chapter 3 Ops: Wearing the CEO's Diet Coke
Chapter 4 Product Management and Architecture: Trials and Triumphs
Chapter 5 "That's not Agile": Defining Your Organization's Agile Way of Working
Chapter 6 Transforming Experiences with a Global Perspective
Chapter 7 Buried in Bad Data
Chapter 8 Transformative Culture, Empathetic Teams, Diverse Leaders
Chapter 9 Selling Innovation to the C-Suite - And Reducing the Stress
Chapter 10 Transforming Beyond Crisis and Becoming a Digital Trailblazer
Epilogue
Appendix: Digital Trailblazers Lessons
Transitioning to a leadership mindset
Navigating tech debt's challenges
Controlling emotions and managing risks
Leading innovation and developing products
Driving agile practices, culture, and mindset
Transforming experiences
Leading data-driven organizations
Fostering high performing teams
Collaborating with executives
Influencing participants in digital transformations
About the Author
Index
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Transitioning to Leadership: What's a Cookie?
Chapter 2 Dev: Spaghetti Code and Technical Debt Is Now Your Problem
Chapter 3 Ops: Wearing the CEO's Diet Coke
Chapter 4 Product Management and Architecture: Trials and Triumphs
Chapter 5 "That's not Agile": Defining Your Organization's Agile Way of Working
Chapter 6 Transforming Experiences with a Global Perspective
Chapter 7 Buried in Bad Data
Chapter 8 Transformative Culture, Empathetic Teams, Diverse Leaders
Chapter 9 Selling Innovation to the C-Suite - And Reducing the Stress
Chapter 10 Transforming Beyond Crisis and Becoming a Digital Trailblazer
Epilogue
Appendix: Digital Trailblazers Lessons
Transitioning to a leadership mindset
Navigating tech debt's challenges
Controlling emotions and managing risks
Leading innovation and developing products
Driving agile practices, culture, and mindset
Transforming experiences
Leading data-driven organizations
Fostering high performing teams
Collaborating with executives
Influencing participants in digital transformations
About the Author
Index