The Accidental CIO, Scott Millett
The Accidental CIO, Scott Millett
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The Accidental CIO
A Lean and Agile Playbook for IT Leaders

Author: Scott Millett

Narrator: Liam Gerrard

Unabridged: 15 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 08/13/2024


Synopsis

An indispensable guide showing IT leaders the way to balance the needs of innovation and exploration with exploitation and operational reliability

In 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

Reviews

Goodreads review by Christoph on July 31, 2024

I got the chance of reviewing the book in a promotional copy, although it was already on my bucket list to read. The book has many good parts and I especially liked the chapters and references to Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow and Turn the Ship Around!: A Tru......more

Goodreads review by Chris on September 03, 2024

Disclaimer, I read this as a review copy. This book lives up to its name as a playbook. I would have rated it a 3.5 if I could. It covers a broad set of topics, ideas and frameworks. This covers the gamut of org design, operating models, enterprise architecture, strategy, portfolio investment managem......more

Goodreads review by Sune on October 18, 2024

I read this as an advance reader review A book the most CIOs should read and discuss with the immediate peers. I read this as an advance reader review. The content covers basically everything a CIO may need to be conserned with and hence it is a very condensed and detailed book. All chapters are very w......more

Goodreads review by Filippo on July 02, 2024

Way too much content, with a very weak/no attempt to summarize in a coherent and compact way. Some chapters are good (4 to 7: operating model, organization, governance); some are too generic and completely unoriginal (8-9: talent management, leadership). All part III goes into excruciating details wit......more

Goodreads review by Sergey on October 26, 2024

In this book I liked the language and structure: the author reveals the essence of the CIO's work in a clear and understandable way. The gamut of tools for solving problems: from strategy development to working with people. “No water”. This is a vivid example of sharing experience from a mentor.......more