Driving Digital: The Leader's Guide to Business Transformation Through Technology

Description

The race is on to become a digital enterprise. Every organization has a plan for updating products, technologies, and business processes. But that's not enough anymore. With disruptive startups outperforming industry stalwarts, executives everywhere are pushing greater growth and innovation. Staying competitive demands a complete digital transformation. For professionals charged with leading technology-driven change, the pressure is intense-and the path forward unclear. Author Isaac Sacolick has successfully spearheaded multiple transformations and helped shape digital-business best practices. Now in Driving Digital, he shares the lessons he's learned, detailing how to: Formulate a digital strategy * Transform business and IT practices * Align Development and Operations * Promote agile practices * Drive culture change * Bolster digital talent * Manage a portfolio of initiatives * Capture and track ROI * Strengthen data-driven decision making and expand data science practices * Cultivate strategic technology capabilities * Develop innovative digital products * Enable product management * Pilot emerging technologies * Become smarter faster. Every company is on the cusp of digital disruption. But with so many pieces to the puzzle, efforts often get derailed. Driving Digital is the action plan you need to take your company and career into the future.

Isaac Sacolick is the founder of StarCIO. Named a top social CIO and leader by The Huffington Post and Forbes, he has held CIO positions at Greenwich Associates, McGraw-Hill Construction, and BusinessWeek.

..".covers agile practices, DevOps, making sure quality and data drive decisions, reducing the complexity of legacy practices and determining what types of data must be collected for success." -ISE magazine ..".essential reading for digital decision-makers." - I - Global Intelligence for the CIO 2018 Heller Search CIO Recommended Reading List "Driving Digital is the go-to guide for any IT executive looking to drive digital transformation at an organization." -BlueJeans Network "Excellent...the best book I've read on the subject. Go buy it if you want/need to transform your business." -- Eric D. Brown blog "The writing is clear and punchy...draws heavily from Sacolick's experience in the field, making it especially useful to business leaders, particularly technologists and C-suite executives. Endnotes will appeal to researchers." --Choice "To begin on the path of digital transformation, business leaders need to look no further than to Driving Digital to make their company smarter and faster and enable them to thrive." --PMWorld Journal "Driving Digital is geared toward technology and other business leaders who are looking for a roadmap for coping with disruption, staying agile, and improving-decision-making in a data-driven world." --Internal Auditing "If you are a CIO, CTO, a leader of IT...you need to, dare I say, you must read this book. The existence of your business may very well depend on it!" -Bluelock ..".milestone book, very important for manufacturing." -Patricia Moody, Blue Heron Journal ..".an experienced CIO with multiple transformation efforts under his belt, [Sacolick]new book is packed with insights, guidelines and stories from the front lines of transformation." --Heller Search Associate blog "The book is compellingly written, giving fresh insight into the role of technology officers. It also provides valuable playbook-like chapters on incorporating agile practices." --LocalOnliner ..".timely, engaging, and practical roadmap to developing and implementing digital strategies." -Forbes.com "A new guide to the digitally perplexed, written by an experienced business technology executive, provides valuable instructions on how to successfully navigate the digital tsunami." -Forbes.com