Skip to Content
The New CIO Leader
book

The New CIO Leader

by Marianne Broadbent, Ellen Kitzis
December 2004
Intermediate to advanced
340 pages
8h 38m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
Content preview from The New CIO Leader

APPENDIX B

_________________

Identifying Strategiesand Synergies toCreate Maxims

Creating good business maxims is a prerequisite to creating appropriate and useful IT maxims. For this reason, here we provide the initial questions that you and your business colleagues need to think through and agree on so you can create good business maxims. The questions and the answers they produce fall into two categories, strategic context and corporate synergies.

Strategic Context

_______________

To develop business maxims, you should begin by considering what we call the strategic context of the enterprise. Strategic context has three components:

  1. Enterprisewide strategic intent

  2. The extent and nature of business unit synergies sought in the future

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

The Changing Role of the CIO

The Changing Role of the CIO

Mike Barlow
The CIO Edge

The CIO Edge

Graham Waller, Karen Rubenstrunk, George Hallenbeck
The Strategic CIO

The Strategic CIO

Philip Weinzimer

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781422159842