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CIO Survival Guide

I created this program to help IT leaders change the playing field in their company, so they get to do a great job leading IT instead of needing to constantly justify their value to the business.

This program gives you specific ideas and tools to combat the endless challenges to your judgment, and scrutiny of your budget. It shows you how to build your credibility across the organization step by step.

Here's what I put in this program:

Practical ideas and specific templates you can use for:

• Elevating the IT agenda in your company
• Conduct IT discussions with business stakeholders so they understand enough to genuinely support you.
• Ratifying IT priorities with your business counterparts so they can't question your judgment later
• Presenting your budget so you get to keep it (and getting the CFO on your side)
• Re-tooling your help-desk to build IT's positive "Brand" throughout the company
• Leading and developing your organization
• Building value in your own career

All of my best insights and coaching based on my own experience as a CEO, manager of very large and complex technology organizations, and coach to CIOs.

Why it works

This is not more technology (you've got enough of that!). And it's not theoretical. It's a specific and concrete plan.

For about the price of one additional server, it will positively impact your budget and your ability to be successful in a major way. This is not a hard sell. It's actually helpful!

Patty Azzarello has dispatched a helicopter rescue for besieged technology teams.

With this guide she shows you how to end the cat herding, begin REAL business-IT alignment and build "street cred" for your technology team.

It's worth every penny.

This guide is a career-must for any aspiring or current CIO. For about the price of one more server, the advice is genuinely career changing. It's more than worth it!

Finally there is a program that gives practical advice on how to align IT spend and activities to things that really matter to the business, and how to focus on the key things that can signal your future success or failure as a CIO.

This guide gives you a practical regimen for working with C-level peers to increase your political power and build credibility for IT.