Future State 2025 : How Top Technology Executives Disrupt and Drive Success in the Digital Economy.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Author's Note: -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- A Shift in Focus -- Introduction: -- Facing the Challenge -- Winning Strategies for Success -- How This Book Is Different -- Unrelenting Pressure to Innovate -- Speed, Agility, and Creativity -- Critical Insights -- Chapter 1 Technology Leadership Is Indispensable and Essential -- Role of the CIO in Guiding the Enterprise to the Future State -- Tailoring the Message for Board and C‐Suite -- Pressure Testing Candidates for Executive Leadership Roles -- Building Your Personal Brand -- Learning Valuable Lessons from Customer Centricity -- Diving Deeper in the New CIO Mandate -- Legendary Lessons from Andreessen -- Critical Steps for Achieving Strategic Goals in the Modern Enterprise -- CIO as a Customer‐Centric Leader -- Tech Leaders and the Customer Experience -- Guiding Structural Change Across the Enterprise -- Transforming a Major Industry -- Riding the Artificial Intelligence Wave -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Leading in Disruptive Times -- Becoming Boardroom Ready: Advice from Board‐Level Tech Execs -- Understanding the Role -- Voice of the CIO in the Boardroom -- Navigating Amid Continual Change -- Motivating and Inspiring the Enterprise -- Connecting the Dots for E‐Commerce -- Renewing the IT Value Proposition -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Achieving Future State Goals -- Scaling Innovation at the Speed of Business -- Great Executives Leverage Deep Business Experience to Drive Lasting Transformational Change -- Focusing First and Foremost on the Customer Experience -- Enabling the Enterprise to Evolve -- Speaking the Language of Business -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Macro Challenges for Tomorrow's Executive Leaders -- Creating Wealth and Driving the Global Economy -- Great Leadership Is Critical to Success.

Why U.S. Executives Should Pay Closer Attention to the Surging Chinese Tech Sector -- Top Tech Trends Include Increased Reliance on Social Networks -- Making the Future Global Energy Company -- Fine‐Tuning the Systems Experience to Deliver an Optimal Customer Experience -- Notes -- Chapter 5 Confronting Global Shifts -- CISOs Are Essential for Achieving the Future State -- A Truly Holistic View of the Enterprise -- How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming IT -- Dealing Effectively with the Transfer of Sensitive Technologies -- Tech Industry Will Remain a Strong Driver of Disruption -- Validating the Belief in IT as a Value Driver -- Across the Atlantic: Content Protection Vote Fails, But the Battle for Control Isn't Over -- Facts and Fiction: Talking to the C‐Suite and Board About AI -- How Does Facebook's Monopoly Impact Innovation in the Technology Space? -- Are You Prepared for the Era of Content Validation? -- Taking Stock of Elon Musk -- Senior Execs Should Pay Attention to the Larger Lesson -- Notes -- Chapter 6 The New Customer Focus Imperative -- Rejuvenating the Customer Experience Through AI -- Reimagining the Restaurant Guest Experience -- CIO's Role in Driving the Business Forward -- Notes -- Chapter 7 Next‐Generation Leadership -- Workforce Diversity at All Levels -- Diversity as an Economic Imperative -- Notes -- Chapter 8 The Future Is Already Here -- Mandate for Disruptive Transformation -- Art of Effective Communications -- Creating Value Continually -- Welcome to the Era of Trillion‐Dollar Market Caps -- How Will the "Amazon Effect" Impact Your Company? -- Rise of AWS Influences the Broader Economy -- Apple Takes on Role of World's Privacy Watchdog -- China Rising: Is the United States Losing the Battle for AI Dominance? -- Notes -- Chapter 9 Key Takeaways -- About the Sources -- About the Author -- About HMG Strategy -- Index.

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