Description

Great CIOs consistently exceed key stakeholders expectations and maximize the business value delivered through their company s technology. What s their secret?

Sure, IT professionals need technological smarts, plus an understanding of their company s goals and the competitive landscape. But the best of them possess a far more potent ability: they forge good working relationships with everyone involved in an IT-enabled project, whether it s introducing new hardware or implementing a major business transformation.

In The CIO Edge, the authors draw on Korn Ferry International s extensive empirical data on leadership competencies as well as Gartner s research on IT trends and the CIO role. They prove that, for IT leaders, mastering seven essential skills yields big results.