Description
The CIO position and importance depend on information technology maturity in the organization, value configuration, strategic IT resources, e-business approach, and IT governance structure. CIO and Corporate Strategic Management: Changing Role of CIO to CEO holds key information in improving a CIO's role, which would then advance his or her chances of moving up into a CEO role.
CIO and Corporate Strategic Management: Changing Role of CIO to CEO provides analysis within theoretical frameworks and consulting recommendations, and starts with the demand side of CEO successions, specifically highlighting approaches in IT foundations, e-business development and IT sourcing decisions.
Reviews and Testimonials
It is a rare that a book applies equally well to students, academics and practitioners but Gottschalk manages to appear to each audience with his well-written book. Provides valuable insights for those seeking to emulate sucess.
– Richard Watson, University of Georgia, USA
This study finds key information in improving a CIO's role, which may provide the stepping stone to a CEO position.
– APADE (2007)
Author's/Editor's Biography
Petter Gottschalk
Petter Gottschalk (http://www.bi.no/users/fgl98023/ ) is Professor of Information Systems and Knowledge Management in the Department of Leadership and Organizational Management at the Norwegian School of Management. He is the author of several books on these subjects, and he has published in major journals. Professor Gottschalk earned his MBA at the Technical University Berlin, Germany, his MSc at Dartmouth College and Sloan School, MIT and his DBA at Henley Management College, Brunel University (UK). His executive experience includes CIO at ABB and CEO at ABB Datacables.