Transforming IT Culture / Wiley CIO (PDF)

Practical, proven guidance for transforming the culture of any
IT department

As more and more jobs are outsourced, and the economy continues
to struggle, people are looking for an alternative to the
greed-driven, selfish leadership that has resulted in corporations
where the workers are treated as interchangeable parts. This book
shows how the human factors can be used to unlock higher returns on
human capital such that workers are no longer interchangeable
parts, but assets that are cared about and grown. Refreshingly
innovative, Transforming IT Culture shows how
neuroscientific and psychological research can be applied in the IT
workplace to unleash a vast pool of untapped potential.

* Written by an expert on IT culture transformation

* Considers the widespread "cultural blindness" in business
today, and how it can be addressed

* Draws on the author's repeated success transforming IT
divisions across major corporations by applying the human
factors

* Explains why social intelligence, human factors, and
collaboration are the source of harmony, shared learning, mutual
respect, and value creation

Employees want positive change in business, something to stop
the downward spiral we are on, both financially and emotionally.
Transforming IT Culture shows how the essential ingredient
to any high performing IT department is a culture where employees
are valued and managed to their strengths. Using the Information
Technology profession as a lens through which we can understand
knowledge worker productivity and how to seriously improve it, this
important new book reveals why Collaborative Social Systems are
essential to every organization.