Maximizing Your Technology Efforts: Leadings CTOs and CIOs on Getting the Most from Your Budget, Leveraging External Partners, and Evaluating Effectiveness (Inside the Minds)

Maximizing Your Technology Efforts is an authoritative, insider's perspective on ensuring optimal efficiency for your IT department. Featuring CTOs and CIOs representing some of the top companies in the nation, this book provides best practices for utilizing resources, preventing IT failures, and initiating in-house innovations. Driven by the demand to streamline business processes through the use of technology, the authors discuss the importance of getting the most out of your budget, leveraging external partners, and evaluating the effectiveness of IT initiatives. From building a team you can trust with complex assignments to deploying that team to implement new strategies, these authors outline the steps every technology leader needs to take to establish a world-class IT organization in his or her company. Highlighting the importance of enterprise agility in this rapidly changing business climate, the authors demonstrate how to quickly identify and correct inefficiencies to keep systems running smoothly while simultaneously containing costs in today s turbulent economy. The different niches presented and the breadth of perspectives represented enable readers to get inside some of the leading technology minds of today, as these insiders offer up their thoughts around the keys to capitalizing on all the IT department has to offer.

Inside the Minds provides readers with proven business intelligence from C-Level executives (Chairman, CEO, CFO, CMO, Partner) from the world's most respected companies nationwide, rather than third-party accounts from unknown authors and analysts. Each chapter is comparable to an essay/thought leadership piece and is a future-oriented look at where an industry, profession or topic is headed and the most important issues for the future. Through an exhaustive selection process, each author was hand-picked by the Inside the Minds editorial board to author a chapter for this book.

Chapters Include:

1. Thor Bendickson, President, GoSolutions Inc. - "Leveraging Technology to Succeed as a Small Company in a Big Online World"

2. Greg Downer, Vice President, Consulting Services, Pepperweed Consulting - "Growing Pains: Maximizing and Maturing the IT Function"

3. Franck Fatras, Chief Technology Officer, Capital Access Network Inc. - "Tailored Technology for Optimal Growth"

4. Chris Jutkiewicz, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, CT, a Wolters Kluwer Business - "Evolving Efficiency and Continuity: Technology Strategies and Initiatives"

5. Jonathan Kass, Vice President, Operations and Chief Information Officer, VPI Pet Insurance - "Driving Business Results through Incremental IT Improvements"

6. Vikram Saksena, Chief Technology Officer, Sonus Networks - "Above and Beyond: The Necessity of Technology Initiatives and Innovation"

7. Mark A. Hagerty, Chief Technology Officer, TransPerfect Inc. - "Using Technology and Global Vision to Fuel Your Growth"

8. Brian Cain, Information Technology Director, CareerSpecific.com - "Running Lean and Staying Flexible"

9. Frank Fabbrocino, Chief Technology Officer, Baseline StudioSystems - "Utilizing Agile Methodologies for Optimum Success"

10. John Sroka, Chief Information Officer, Duane Morris LLP - "Augmenting Productivity through IT"

11. John A. O Neill Sr., Corporate Director, Information Technology, Molded Fiber Glass Companies - "Executing Projects of Importance"

12. Craig S. Lowenthal, Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer, NYMAGIC INC. - "Best Practices for Migrating to New Technology"