
A Seat at the Table
IT Leadership in the Age of Agility
Mark Schwartz(Author)
It Revolution Press
Published on 2. October 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
313 pages
978-1-942788-11-9 (ISBN)
Description
In A Seat at the Table, CIO Mark Schwartz explores the role of IT leadership as it is now and opens the door to reveal IT leadership as it should be--an integral part of the value creation engine. With an easy style, Schwartz reveals that the only way to become an Agile IT leader is to be courageous--to throw off the attitude and assumptions that have kept CIOs from taking their rightful seat at the table. CIOs, step on up, your seat at the table is waiting for you.
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Language
English
Place of publication
OR
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
374 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-942788-11-9 (9781942788119)
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Person
Mark Schwartz is an iconoclastic CIO and a playful crafter of ideas, an inveterate purveyor of lucubratory prose. He has been an IT leader in organizations small and large, public, private, and nonprofit. As an Enterprise Strategist for Amazon Web Services, he uses his CIO experience to bring strategies to enterprises or enterprises to strategies, and bring both to the cloud. As the CIO of US Citizenship and Immigration Services, he provoked the federal government into adopting Agile and DevOps practices. He is pretty sure that when he was the CIO of Intrax Cultural Exchange he was the first person ever to use business intelligence and supply chain analytics to place au pairs with the right host families. Mark speaks frequently on innovation, bureaucratic implications of DevOps, and using Agile processes in low-trust environments. With a BS in computer science from Yale, a master’s in philosophy from Yale, and an MBA from Wharton, Mark is either an expert on the business value of IT or else he just thinks about it a lot.
Content
Table of
Foreword
Introduction
Part One: Finding the Table
1. Sitting Alone
2. Kept from the Table
3. Approaching Agilely and Leanly
Part Two: Earning the Seat
4. Planning
5. Requirements
6. Transformation
7. Enterprise Architecture
8. Build vs. Buy
9. Governance and Oversight
10. Risk
11. Quality
12. Shadow IT
Part Three: Sitting at the Table
13. The CIO's Place at the Table
14. Exhortation and Table Manners
Endnotes
Recommended Reading
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
Part One: Finding the Table
1. Sitting Alone
2. Kept from the Table
3. Approaching Agilely and Leanly
Part Two: Earning the Seat
4. Planning
5. Requirements
6. Transformation
7. Enterprise Architecture
8. Build vs. Buy
9. Governance and Oversight
10. Risk
11. Quality
12. Shadow IT
Part Three: Sitting at the Table
13. The CIO's Place at the Table
14. Exhortation and Table Manners
Endnotes
Recommended Reading
Acknowledgements