Trusting Technology: Mastering Technology for Non-Tech Leaders - Softcover

Binks, Graham

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1642932728 ISBN 13: 9781642932720

Publisher: Post Hill Press, 2020

Synopsis

Trusting Technology is about adapting to new ways of life and work. Technology merely provides the platform.

When we talk about the challenges of technology, we’re really talking about the challenges of improvement—the ways we change and the lessons we learn on our path to making things better.

The challenge—and the opportunity—is that technology offers us so many options. It’s bemusing! What areas of our business do we focus on? How can we make them better?

Trusting Technology is a handbook to help business leaders become centered in their focus, approach, and resilience with adopting and adapting technology. You will learn how to:

• Generate, curate, and make ideas happen.
• Better understand how to improve your customer’s journey.
• Build a machine that connects your business’s community of customers and colleagues.
• Nurture confidence in the face of change.
• Create insights with the information that matters to your colleagues and customers.
• Describe your security strategy in five minutes.
• Capture your business’s special sauce to create new assets.
• Navigate a course to your business future with rapid learning and minimalist change.
• Master the art of estimation.
• Benchmark your organization—any organization—as a tech business.
• Build a platform to keep pace with the innovation needs of your business.
• Find inspiration and build on the achievements of others.

This vital conversation is not about the technology itself, but rather, the connections it enables and the change it imposes on our comfortably imperfect routine and environment. The means are not software code and hardware bits, but rather systems thinking, empathetic change, rapid learning, and adaptive planning.

Trusting Technology is about the humanity of advancement feeding the advancement of humanity.

About this title

About the Author

Graham Binks is an expert in helping businesses get the best out of their technology investments.

Over the course of more than five hundred career projects conducted in a wide range of industries, he has helped countless small, medium, and large organizations to quickly achieve their technology goals under budget and with low risk. His work is focused on helping formulate the best technology roadmap to support business strategy, guiding teams through delivery and assisting leadership to deliver on the plan.

Graham is the CEO of primeFusion Inc and has over thirty years of technology leadership experience in Europe, North America, and Asia. He’s spent a decade in CTO and support roles for several software companies, and another decade as CIO in a number of international businesses. Graham’s client list spans four continents and includes Nike, Procter & Gamble, Citigroup, JP Morgan, and Eurotunnel.

He writes and speaks as often as he can on the union of business and technology—with a particular interest in the human side of change through technology.

Graham lives in Toronto, Canada.

Edition details

• Publisher: Post Hill Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1642932728
• ISBN 13: 9781642932720
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304