CIO Insight Staff

The Contrarian’s Guide to Leadership By Steven B. Sample Jossey-Bass, 2001 224 pages, $24 The President of the University of Southern California challenges conventional teachings about leadership in a guide that urges leaders and aspiring leaders to focus on such counterintuitive truths as (sometimes) compromising your principles, putting off decisions and using Machiavelli as a […]

The Quest for Global Dominance: Transforming Global Presence into Global Competitive Advantage By Vijay Govindarajan and Anil K. Gupta Jossey-Bass, 2001 297 pages, $27.00 The authors, professors of global strategy, apply a decade of research to showing companies how to effectively globalize. The book covers globalization in the digital age, building teams and creating a […]

In the wake of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the October Confidence Meter took a surprising turn upward. CIO’s confidence in the chances that the overall economy would recover in the next 90 days shot up to 5.3, the highest score ever, while the sector and company scores—at 5.6 […]

The Perfect Engine: How to Win in the New Demand Economy by Building to Order With Fewer Resources By Anand Sharma and Patricia E. Moody Free Press 304 pages, $30 Two well-known manufacturing experts offer a new manufacturing technique—a combination of lean production and Six Sigma quality principles that has led to a decrease in […]

Profiting from Intellectual Capital: Extracting Value from Innovation By Patrick H. Sullivan John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2001 384 pages, $29.95 The founding partner of The ICM Group LLC, an intellectual capital management consulting firm, outlines the best ways to document and manage intellectual assets using proven methods. The guide not only instructs readers on […]

Leading Up: How to Lead Your Boss So You Both Win By Michael Useem Crown Business, 2001 320 pages, $25.95 A top leadership academic provides a blueprint for creating leadership at every level at a time when traditional businesses relax their hierarchical management structures. The Wharton professor offers advice on how to prevail by helping […]

The War for Talent By Ed Michaels, Helen Handfield-Jones, Beth Axelrod Harvard Business School Press, 2001 240 pages, $27.50 Over the next two decades, the demand for capable managers will remain a significant workplace issue, assert the authors, all from McKinsey & Company. They draw on five years of research, including surveys of 13,000 executives […]

How to Kill a Troubled Project By Gopal K. Kapur Close to 40 percent of it projects fail or are abandoned before completion, and many of them wind up wasting millions of dollars before the plug is finally pulled. Gopal K. Kapur, founder and president of the Center for Project Management, provides a methodology for […]

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t By Jim Collins HarperBusiness, 2001 320 pages, $27.50 The co-author of Built to Last, the best-selling book on companies that have sustained greatness, provides a blueprint for transforming good companies into great ones. Based on nearly five years of research on every company that […]

Reflecting the recent woeful news about the near-term chances for an economic recovery, the September Confidence Meter slumped again to levels not seen since May. CIOs’ confidence in the chances that the overall economy would recover in the next 90 days fell back to 4.7 from 5.1, while their confidence in coming conditions for their […]

Flying Blind? by Gary Hamel Gary Hamel, an e-business scholar whom the The Economist calls “the world’s reigning strategy guru,” urges CIOs in a conversation with CIO Insight Executive Editor Marcia Stepanek to think less about using technology to cut costs and more about how technology can be used to create new value for their […]

The Freedom Economy: Gaining the mCommerce Edge in the Era of the Wireless Internet by Peter G.W. Keen and Ron Mackintosh McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media, 2001 304 pages, $29.99 We’ve all heard the hype, but how do wireless tools and applications fit into the broader context of business? Keen, the author of The eProcess Edge, and Mackintosh, […]