What Top CIOs Know

How to succeed in a world of digital transformation, cyber challenges, exponential change, and intelligent devices by creating powerful strategies for the new 3.0 World

Today’s CIOs do not have the luxury of dropping old responsibilities as new ones come along. Legacy technologies are hard to phase out, governance and cyber security responsibilities get more complex, and an entirely new techno sphere is encompassing most organizations. A “3.0 World” is emerging quickly – where, for example, an asset-light company like Uber can completely upend the transportation industry. The CIO needs to both manage technologies such as machine learning and communicate/inspire their competitive potential to senior management. What Top CIOs Know provides the scaffolding for understanding this new world so that CIOs can deliver on the promises of current and emerging technologies. This text guides the reader through the entire IT management spectrum, from cyber security to artificial intelligence to digital transformation. Aimed at busy IT executives, it highlights best/good practices for governance, technology strategy, contract management, and the exponentially growing set of “intelligence” technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data and the Internet of things. Brown and Yarberry, with extensive, hands-on experience in IT and IT Audit, offer guidance to CIOs and managers on how to navigate the CIO role through conceptual road-maps, mastery of “lights on” responsibilities and integration into the new hyper-automated world. What Top CIOs Know levels the playing field for maximum IT success and provides a practical road-map to achieving strategic value.