The New IT: How Technology Leaders are Enabling Business Strategy in the Digital Age

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The IT Leader’s Identity Crisis

                  Don’t let the days go by

                  Could have been easier on you

                  I couldn’t change, though I wanted to

                  Should have been easier by three

                  Our old friend Fear, and you and me

             —Bush, “Glycerine” (1994)

Today’s IT leaders are haunted by the idea of their own unmet potential. Chief information officers. Chief technology officers. Vice presidents of application development. Chief data officers. Centers of excellence directors. Chief architects. These and other IT managers are confronting the entrenched assumptions, legacy technology ...