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    Management Skills in IT: Shaping your career
    Management Skills in IT: Shaping your career
    Management Skills in IT: Shaping your career
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    This collection of articles by IT industry experts explores the challenges IT professionals face when moving from a technical into a managerial role. The authors look at the skills required to scale the career ladder, the opportunities for training and development and how to progress from a first job in IT to CIO. Each article ends with a range of current resources and recommendations including blogs, books and websites.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
    Release dateNov 7, 2011
    ISBN9781780171036
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      Management Skills in IT - BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT

      BCS THE CHARTERED INSTITUTE FOR IT

      Our mission as BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, is to enable the information society. We promote wider social and economic progress through the advancement of information technology science and practice. We bring together industry, academics, practitioners and government to share knowledge, promote new thinking, inform the design of new curricula, shape public policy and inform the public.

      Our vision is to be a world-class organisation for IT. Our 70,000 strong membership includes practitioners, businesses, academics and students in the UK and internationally. We deliver a range of professional development tools for practitioners and employees. A leading IT qualification body, we offer a range of widely recognised qualifications.

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      Published by British Informatics Society Limited (BISL), a wholly owned subsidiary of BCS The Chartered Institute for IT First Floor, Block D, North Star House, North Star Avenue, Swindon, SN2 1FA, UK.

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      CONTENTS

      Preface

      SECTION 1: MANAGEMENT AND PERSONAL SKILLS

      1 DO WE NEED A SOFTER SIDE? – Jooli Atkins

      2 EQUIPPING IT LEADERS – Simon Mitchell

      3 NEW MANAGER TO GREAT MANAGER – Jean Gamester

      SECTION 2: CAREERS AND TRAINING

      4 UNDERSTANDING BUSINESS – Gary Flood

      5 TRAINING A NEW GENERATION OF LEADERS – Dave McKay

      6 MOVING TO THE TOP – BECOMING CIO – Gary Flood

      SECTION 3: LEADERSHIP AND TECHNOLOGY

      7 WILL YOU NEED A CIO BY 2020? – Amitabh Apte

      8 WHAT THE CIO CAN LEARN FROM TEENAGERS – Rob Chapman

      9 LEADING VIRTUAL TEAMS – Gary Flood

      SECTION 4: CIO – A CHANGING ROLE

      10 THE STATE OF CIO – EVOLUTION OF THE CIO MANDATE AND ROLE – Amitabh Apte

      USEFUL RESOURCES

      PREFACE

      To be a great IT manager is to understand that IT success is based upon a blend of skills that mixes IT craft, ability and knowledge with a true understanding of what the organisation is trying to achieve and the context within which it sits. Great IT leaders can get themselves, their teams and their organisations in front of the IT curve, realising opportunities. To

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