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14 essential book recommendations by and for IT leaders

CIO

In The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win (IT Revolution Press, 2013 ) , Bill — an IT manager — takes over a critical project that’s over budget and behind schedule. There they discovered that leadership is the element most essential to team success — even in the worst situations.

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12 Lessons Learned while Managing Corporate Innovation

Perficient

I started out at an ad agency in southern Indiana in 2002. Problem : There were eager individuals who loved the opportunity to submit ideas and present them to leadership, yet they were declined repeatedly. Action : We started asking company leadership about the problems they faced. The Road to Managing Corporate Innovation.

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StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – Gather Ye Sugar Plums While Ye May; Your Personal Discretionary Budget will be Impacted by Washington

Strategy Driven

But ‘tis the season for budgeting for the New Year as well. Unless otherwise averted, your Christmas/Holiday or otherwise discretionary budget will fade next year to infinity and beyond. in 2002 to $854.00 in 2002 to $854.00 You are about to experience a change to your budget that will affect your lifestyle.

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Be More Productive Now: Mindful Strategies for Increasing Performance

Strategy Driven

She has managed teams of more than 100 people and budgets of over $60M. She also sits on a number of boards and regularly speaks on integrating mindfulness into leadership, work life, and – following her own wake-up call of cancer diagnosis and treatment – programs for post-traumatic growth. Britta K.

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Agile vs Scrum: Differences & Similarities?—?The Complete Review [2020]

Codegiant

Time spent and budgets are also reviewed to help the product owner make better time & cost estimates in the future. Professional Agile Leadership™ ?—?if Leadership plays a crucial part in the Agile process; on the other side, Scrum fosters a self-organizing, cross-functional unit. ”?—?Matt Professional Scrum™ with Kanban ?—?if

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If An IT Project Wastes US$16B, Is It The CIO’s Fault?

The Accidental Successful CIO

Back in 2002 a decision was made to create a single unified database system that would store customer information. However, it is believed that the NHS’s particular problems stem from the original contracts signed before 2002. Blue Elephant Consulting – Your Source For Real World IT Department Leadership Skills™.

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2022 Cloud Salary Survey

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

When you look at the number of respondents who left their employer, are planning to leave their employer, or got a promotion and a salary increase, it’s easy to see why salary budgets are under pressure. But it’s also worth noting that AWS launched in 2002, roughly 20 years ago. 21% wanted to work on more interesting projects.

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