CIOs at Work

About the Book: CIOs at Work

In CIOs at Work, noted author Ed Yourdon interviews many of the world's most influential chief information officers. You will gain insights from the first CIO of the USA, take a peek into the future with the CIO at Google, learn the unique role IT plays in testing Microsoft applications, and much more.

Yourdon focuses on how his interviewees tackle the day-to-day work of managing information in their organizations while revealing much more: How they got there, how they manage and allocate resources, and how they interact with business units and assure that their companies take advantage of technologies and automation to make employees even more productive. Surveying a variety of unique corporations, you'll get a great sense of what can be done and what is being done now in organizations around the world. Don't miss this illuminating companion volume to the highly acclaimed Apress bestseller, Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston, and Peter Seibel's bestselling Coders at Work, also from Apress.

Contents

1. Ben Fried, Google

2. Tony Scott, Microsoft

3. Monte Ford, American Airlines

4. Mittu Sridhara, Ladbrokes

5. Steve Rubinow, NYSE

6. Lew Temares (retired), University of Miami

7. Mark Mooney, McGraw-Hill

8. Dan Wakeman, Educational Testing Services

9. Lynne Ellen, Detroit Energy

10. Becky Blalock, Southern Company

11. Ken Bohlen, Arizona Public Services

12. Roger Gurnani, Verizon

13. Ashish Gupta, British Telecom

14. Joan Miller, U.K. Parliament

15. Vivek Kundra (first CIO), U.S. Government

16. Paul Strassmann (retired), Kraft Foods