An indispensable guide showing IT leaders the way to balance the needs of innovation and exploration with exploitation and operational reliabilityIn The Accidental CIO, veteran software developer-turned-executive Scott Millett delivers an essential playbook to becoming an impactful, strategic leader at any stage of your IT leadership journey. You'll find a wealth of hands-on advice for tackling the many challenges and paradoxes that face technology leaders, from creating an aligned IT strategy, defining a target architecture, designing a balanced operating model, and leading teams and executing strategy.After the foreword from Simon Wardley, The Accidental CIO will help you:¿ Understand problem contexts you will face using the Cynefin decision making framework and how the philosophies of agile, lean, and design thinking can help manage them.¿ Design an adaptive and strategically aligned operating model by applying the appropriate ways of working and governance approaches depending on each unique problem context.¿ Develop and deploy an effective and aligned IT strategy using Wardley mapping based on a deep knowledge of your business architecture.¿ And more
An indispensable guide showing IT leaders the way to balance the needs of innovation and exploration with exploitation and operational reliabilityIn The Accidental CIO, veteran software developer-turned-executive Scott Millett delivers an essential playbook to becoming an impactful, strategic leader at any stage of your IT leadership journey. You'll find a wealth of hands-on advice for tackling the many challenges and paradoxes that face technology leaders, from creating an aligned IT strategy, defining a target architecture, designing a balanced operating model, and leading teams and executing strategy.After the foreword from Simon Wardley, The Accidental CIO will help you:¿ Understand problem contexts you will face using the Cynefin decision making framework and how the philosophies of agile, lean, and design thinking can help manage them.¿ Design an adaptive and strategically aligned operating model by applying the appropriate ways of working and governance approaches depending on each unique problem context.¿ Develop and deploy an effective and aligned IT strategy using Wardley mapping based on a deep knowledge of your business architecture.¿ And more
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