In CIOs at Work noted author Ed Yourdon interviews many of the world's most influential chief
information officers. You will gain insights from the first CIO of the USA take a peek into
the future with the CIO at Google learn the unique role IT plays in testing Microsoft
applications and much more. Yourdon focuses on how his interviewees tackle the day-to-day work
of managing information in their organizations while revealing much more: How they got there
how they manage and allocate resources and how they interact with business units and assure
that their companies take advantage of technologies and automation to make employees even more
productive. Surveying a variety of unique corporations you'll get a great sense of what can be
done and what is being done now in organizations around the world. Simply put Ed Yourdon's
CIOs at Work is a fascinating read. The author has managed to illuminate the real challenges
confronting the Chief Information Officer. The technical expertise of his extraordinary
interviewees and their personal insights into the changing role of technology in business are
in no short supply. But what really stands out- beyond the banter about clouds agile
development -is the human dimension. More than anything else the CIO is wrestling with
profound issues: the proliferation of choices the speed of change the shorter attention spans
of consumers the everyone's an expert mindset and the growing expectation for limitless and
low cost computing resources that are as open and accessible as they are safe secure and
accurate. At last the CIO has a human face but also an enormous burden that can only be
appreciated by reading Yourdon's probative interviews. -Jon Toigo Managing Principle Toigo
Partners International Featured CIOs: Ben Fried Google Tony Scott Microsoft Monte Ford
American Airlines Mittu Sridhara Ladbrokes Steve Rubinow NYSE Lew Temares (retired)
University of Miami Mark Mooney McGraw-Hill Dan Wakeman Educational Testing Services Lynne
Ellen Detroit Energy Becky Blalock Southern Company Ken Bohlen Arizona Public Services Roger
Gurnani Verizon Ashish Gupta British Telecom Joan Miller U.K. Parliament Vivek Kundra
(first CIO) U.S. Government Paul Strassmann (retired) Kraft Foods Other books in the Apress
At Work Series: CTOs at Work Donaldson Seigel & Donaldson 978-1-4302-3593-4 Coders at Work
Seibel 978-1-4302-1948-4 Venture Capitalists at Work Shah & Shah 978-1-4302-3837-9 Founders
at Work Livingston 978-1-4302-1078-8 European Founders at Work Santos 978-1-4302-3906-2
Women Leaders at Work Ghaffari 978-1-4302-3729-7 Advertisers at Work Tuten
978-1-4302-3828-7 Gamers at Work Ramsay. 978-1-4302-3351-0
