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By
Keith Patching, Director of Development and Senior Lecturer, Cranfield School of Management.
Robina Chatham, Lecturer in Management Information Systems, Cranfield School of Management.
Description
'Corporate Politics for IT Managers: How to get Streetwise' addresses some of the most persistent problems faced by IT managers which
undermine their power and influence in their organisations and which prevents them obtaining seat on the board of directors.
It deals
directly with the IT stereotype and offers advice on how to survive and then thrive despite the odds being stacked against the IT manager.
Divided into four parts, 'How the IT Manager Gets Streetwise' begins by placing the IT stereotype in context, and proceeds to challenge
the IT persons' habitual behaviours of the past, and present ways of rethinking IT services, before concluding with how managers can
become "streetwise" in today's organisations.
There are many books on the market telling IT managers how to construct IT and IS strategies,
and even more on how to 'run' an IT department or function. However, few deal with the politics in organisations.
'Corporate Politics
for IT Managers: How to get Streetwise' equips IT managers with the necessary skills to cope successfully in the political arenas of
the boardrooms in today's businesses.
Audience
IT Managers and aspiring IT Managers.
IT Directors.
Contents
Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction: the IT tribe; What's the problem? - The IT stereotype and organisational politics; I'm just trying
to do my job - Coping with the stereotype; The phantom IT strategy; Projects: the illusion of being managed; Staying alive; Writes of
passage; Meetings (of minds?); Reinventing the wheel; Firefighting and rework; Shattering the illusion; Why won't other people let me
do my job? - Leading, managing and abdicating; Recruiting into the tribe; Talk to me; Where are you when we want you?; Lock horns and
push; Business priorities and culture: the unspoken agenda; Breaking the taboo: marketing IT services; Suppliers and consultants: the
wolves at the door; Let someone else do it for a change; Becoming streetwise - Shades of grey; Say hello to the rest of your brain; Blowing
the whistle; All stressed out and nowhere to go; Lighten up a little; IQ is not everything; The road to Damascus; You lead, I'll follow;
The front row of the grid; Where am I going?; Riding off into the sunset - You are not alone.
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 314 pages, publication date: JUN-2000
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-4792-2
ISBN-10: 0-7506-4792-2
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN
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