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In the modern business environment, the IT leader needs to deliver business as usual through a strong transactional focus, yet, at the same time, enable change and innovation through vision-led Transformational Leadership. Success thus requires a form of ambidextrous leadership. Incorporating the latest business thinking, this book explains how the IT leader can strike this balance, evolve into the CTO - Chief Transformation Officer - and really contribute to the development and success of their business enterprises. Changing the IT Leader's Mindset is designed for the busy executive. Short and concise, it does not try to paint the necessary personal transition as a simplistic process or procedure, but focuses on an understanding of human nature and ...

Realize the benefits of Internet technologies, while ensuring your company is protected from the associated risks! An effective risk management strategy is vital to your company s survival Internet technologies have revolutionized the way that business is conducted. However, these innovations expose your business to various risks. Inadequate security can lead to the theft of customer data and, in the event of technological failure or a cyberattack, your business could lose its ability to function altogether. An effective risk management strategy is, therefore, vital to your company s survival. Understand the origins of cyber risks and develop suitable strategies for their management Cyber Risks for Business Professionals: A Management Guide is a gene...

Is the internet really powerful enough to allow a sixteen year old to become the biggest threat to world peace since Adolf Hitler? Are we all now susceptible to cyber-criminals who can steal from us without even having to leave the comfort of their own armchairs? These are fears which have been articulated since the popular development of the internet, yet criminologists have been slow to respond to them. Consequently, questions about what cybercrimes are, what their impacts will be and how we respond to them remain largely unanswered.Organised into three sections, this book engages with the various criminological debates that are emerging over cybercrime. The first section looks at the general problem of crime and the internet. It then describes wha...

Take a bite out of Apple's iPhone(tm) success. The Complete Idiot's Guide(r) to Developing iPhone(tm) Apps is the perfect introduction for aspiring iPhone(tm) app creators, offering a step-by-step approach exploring all of the tools and key aspects of programming using the iPhone(tm) software development kit, including getting the finished product distributed through the App Store. Apple also reports more than one billion downloads of their more than 25,000 available applications, and both the number of applications and the appetite for them keeps growing Of the more than 50,000 companies and individuals who have registered as program developers, 60 percent have never before developed an Apple platform...