Fostering Innovation: How to Build an Amazing IT Team

Book Description

Proven and practical strategies for leading IT teams and departments

In Fostering Innovation: How to Build an Amazing IT Team, accomplished technology strategist, executive, and leader Andrew Laudato delivers an eye-opening exploration of how to design, build, staff, and run a high-performing IT department. The book is filled with universally applicable strategies and techniques that can transform any IT team into an all-star cast perfectly aligned with your organization’s objectives.

Incorporating proven and practical processes throughout the narrative, the book offers useful continuous improvement concepts the reader can apply to their team, company, and professional development. Readers will also find:

• Foolproof ways to put people before technology
• Detailed discussions of perennially important topics, like the importance of uptime, how to deploy redundancy, and creating the perfect organization chart
• Strategies for managing and motivating the wonderfully unique individuals we refer to as “technologists.”

The perfect resource for newly minted Chief Information Officers and Chief Technology Officers, Fostering Innovation will also earn a place in the libraries of non-technical professionals who work closely with IT, and business leaders seeking a better understanding of how to lead an IT team.

中文：

书名：促进创新：如何打造一支出色的IT团队

为领先的IT团队和部门制定经过验证的实用策略

在《培育创新：如何建立一个令人惊叹的IT团队》一书中，成就卓著的技术策略师、高管兼领导者Andrew Laudato就如何设计、构建、员工和运营高绩效的IT部门进行了令人大开眼界的探索。这本书充满了普遍适用的战略和技术，可以将任何IT团队转变为与组织目标完全一致的全明星阵容。

在整个叙述中融入了经过验证和实践的过程，这本书提供了有用的持续改进概念，读者可以将其应用于他们的团队、公司和专业发展。读者还将发现：

• 把人放在技术之前的万无一失的方法
• 详细讨论长期重要的主题，如正常运行时间的重要性、如何部署冗余以及创建完美的组织结构图
• 管理和激励我们称之为技术专家的独特人才的策略。

作为新成立的首席信息官和首席技术官的完美资源，培养创新能力还将在与IT密切合作的非技术专业人员以及寻求更好地了解如何领导IT团队的商业领袖的图书馆中赢得一席之地。