Foreword

CTOs at Work is a terrific contribution that breaks the mold for books of its type. There are three traditional structures for harnessing the collected wisdom of CTOs and CIOs. The most scholarly treatments involve interpreting the results of some survey or surveys of CTOs. The resulting numerical data is then crunched through various mysterious but important looking formulae to obtain, purportedly, surprising conclusions. The authors, usually academics then include their own insights and recommendations for the reader. I like these kinds of books the least because they are sterile and devoid of real CTO insight. Surveys can provide some important data for researchers, but generally, when you aggregate the responses of a large number of CTOs, each in ....