Straight to the top : CIO leadership in a mobile, social, and cloud-based world / Gregory S. Smith.

Includes index.

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Key change drivers and trends impacting the CIO role today -- Why the role of the CIO continues to change -- Technologies and trends driving today's IT innovation -- IT standards and governance and the impact of consumer devices -- Service level agreements : a key to improved customer expectations and better contracts -- About the author -- Index.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Essential reading for IT professionals with aspirations toward the top IT spot, and forsitting CIOs looking to refine their mobile, social and cloud strategies and knowledge The definitive work on how to achieve leadership success in IT, Straight to the Top, SecondEdition reveals how the role of the CIO is changing due to major trends associated withconsumer and enterprise products and technologies driving new mobile solutions in today'sorganizations; cloud computing and the move away from controlled / internally managed datacenters to pay as you use and elastic cloud infrastruc.