Chapter Three: CIO Leadership

"The Adventures of an IT Leader" invites readers to "walk in the shoes" of Jim Barton, the new CIO of the fictional IVK Corporation, as he spends a difficult year learning effective information technology leadership, sidestepping the pitfalls that make the CIO job the most volatile, high-turnover job in the business. This chapter joins Barton has he pulls together his IT management team to ascertain present and future challenges and risks, and tries to establish a shared vision for how IT ought to contribute to the success of the company. The new CIO learns very quickly that some of his assumptions about general management do not hold true in the domain of IT. This chapter is excerpted from "The Adventures of an IT Leader."