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Truth from the Valley: A Practical Primer on It Management for the Next Decade
The IT industry was transformed during the 2010 decade. Cloud-based business applications proliferated throughout most enterprises. Rules of engagement between IT and its business partners were redefined. Proprietary data centers came to be viewed as corporate liabilities instead of corporate assets. Information security and regulatory compliance concerns multiplied. And finally, end user support practices were redesigned to support smart devices and smart millennials who wanted immediate access to their data, applications and productivity tools at any time and any place.
Nowhere have these changes been more profound or pervasive than in Silicon Valley. The Valley is home to a wide variety of cloud-native companies that operate entirely on cloud applications and cloud computing resources. Many operate under stringent security safeguards and all are engaged in a perpetual war for IT talent. They are ravenous (sometimes reckless) adopters of new technology and are continually re-inventing the processes they use to recruit and retain talent, optimize internal operations, and manage new forms of technology.
Truth from the Valley describes the organizational challenges confronting Silicon Valley IT teams and proposes ways of transforming such challenges into organizational opportunities. Seven-time CIO Mark Settle brings a unique perspective to the discussion of contemporary IT management practices based upon his personal experience in the Valley startup community and larger Fortune 500 firms.
This book can be used as a strategic planning document by IT leaders everywhere to identify the organizational competencies their teams will need to succeed during the next decade. Savvy leaders will use this book to make targeted investments in those organizational capabilities that will enhance the impact of their teams and advance their careers in the process.
Nowhere have these changes been more profound or pervasive than in Silicon Valley. The Valley is home to a wide variety of cloud-native companies that operate entirely on cloud applications and cloud computing resources. Many operate under stringent security safeguards and all are engaged in a perpetual war for IT talent. They are ravenous (sometimes reckless) adopters of new technology and are continually re-inventing the processes they use to recruit and retain talent, optimize internal operations, and manage new forms of technology.
Truth from the Valley describes the organizational challenges confronting Silicon Valley IT teams and proposes ways of transforming such challenges into organizational opportunities. Seven-time CIO Mark Settle brings a unique perspective to the discussion of contemporary IT management practices based upon his personal experience in the Valley startup community and larger Fortune 500 firms.
This book can be used as a strategic planning document by IT leaders everywhere to identify the organizational competencies their teams will need to succeed during the next decade. Savvy leaders will use this book to make targeted investments in those organizational capabilities that will enhance the impact of their teams and advance their careers in the process.
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214 pages, Hardcover
Published February 12, 2020
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September 3, 2021
Last week I finished Truth from the "Valley: A Practical Primer on Future IT Management Trends" by Mark Settle. This is thanks to Wali bhai and Asha bhabi who gifted me this book. This is the second book from Mark which is better than his earlier one "The Truth from the Trenches". He talks about how Silicon Valley is in the Silicon Valley is the leading laboratory for Information Technology (IT) Management.
Mark divided this book into 3 majors parts - People, Process and Technology.
(1) People - Mark introduces the concept of talent debt similar to technical debt, the war for talent, superhero culture, coaching vs managing, teamwork. He argues that people development is of 2 types - remedial development to perform the job at hand and career development to perform at a higher level.
(2) Process - Here Mark touches on Minimum Viable Process as opposed to Minimum Viable Product that was introduced by Eric Ries in "The Lean Startup". He also talks about Application Development and Maintenance (ADM), API Governance, Data Management, Security Culture, Compliance, Agile, Workflow Automation.
(3) Technology - In this part he mentions differences between systems of records vs systems of engagement, IT's shared role in SaaS implementation, Infrastructure Abstraction, Virtual Workplace, Vendor Ecosystem Leverage.
Source: http://www.dragon-bishop.com/2021/09/...
Mark divided this book into 3 majors parts - People, Process and Technology.
(1) People - Mark introduces the concept of talent debt similar to technical debt, the war for talent, superhero culture, coaching vs managing, teamwork. He argues that people development is of 2 types - remedial development to perform the job at hand and career development to perform at a higher level.
(2) Process - Here Mark touches on Minimum Viable Process as opposed to Minimum Viable Product that was introduced by Eric Ries in "The Lean Startup". He also talks about Application Development and Maintenance (ADM), API Governance, Data Management, Security Culture, Compliance, Agile, Workflow Automation.
(3) Technology - In this part he mentions differences between systems of records vs systems of engagement, IT's shared role in SaaS implementation, Infrastructure Abstraction, Virtual Workplace, Vendor Ecosystem Leverage.
Source: http://www.dragon-bishop.com/2021/09/...
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