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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.
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Release dateNov 7, 2011
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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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    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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