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What are pragmatic IT measures of the CIO in response to the Corona crisis? CIOs, IT managers and other IT managers are currently battling the impact of the Coronavirus crisis on business. Here is a selection of pragmatic measures and initiatives with which IT managers can react to the crisis: first, immediate measures to support remote work / home office and to stabilize the systems. Secondly, however, measures that make sense in the short term to adapt IT to the post-acute crisis and to set it up accordingly (2 pages PDF file).

Pragmatic IT measures in response to the Corona crisis – English version of LinkedIn: CIO's Pragmatic Immediate and Short-Term IT Reactions to Coronavirus Crisis: Curre
ntly, CIOs I talked to are fighting against the impacts of Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis. The current focus is on enabling remote work and stabilizing IT operations. However, it appears very likely that the business impact of Coronavirus crisis will require CIOs to cut costs and prepare for a post-crisis – already in the short term. I tried to summarize both current and short-term pragmatic IT reactions on two pages.

getabstract: "The author has written a management guide that accompanies the reader step by step in the IT turnaround. First of all, the comprehensible and obvious spelling is commendable. The author not only says how the turnaround succeeds, but also in concrete terms what to do."

To the book summary at getabstract

For example, you can place an order here:

• Directly at Hanser-Verlag
• At your local bookseller (ISBN: 978-3-446-45501-6)
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The 2nd Edition of the technical book "IT-Turnaround" is currently in preparation.

In addition to numerous revisions, the following topics will also be discussed:

• Digitalization pressure in the event of crisis-ridden IT: Opportunities for CIOs to act
• How can prerequisites for digitization projects in the application landscape be
  Create?
• Cloud-based application strategies
• DevOps, a bi-modal IT organization or IT of two speeds:
  Helpful for digitization projects?
• Transition Management & Change Management as important core IT processes.

Release date March 2018 at Hanser-Verlag.

For example, you can place an order here:

• Directly at Hanser-Verlag
• At your local bookseller (ISBN: 978-3-446-45501-6)
• At Amazon

Cover 2. Edition

Case Study on a successful project as interim manager and head of the gloable IT Cost Cutting Workstream (IT cost reduction). The project was carried out as part of the successful restructuring of a telecommunications company. A particular success was to "free up" the necessary budget funds for essential digitization projects in the company (link to the case study on the Atreus homepage) by reducing operational IT costs.

Cio-Magazin recommended the textbook for carrying out an IT transformation "IT turnaround" in May 2015. Among other things, it says:

"Author and interim manager Baur shows the three-way battle between operational guarantee, business support and crisis management and how they can cope with this exhausting phase."

The full review can be found here.

Every year, Capgemini publishes the highly recommended study "IT Trends", which can be taken up with many research of relevant market research companies. This is also the subject of a blog, which is also worth reading, which raised the question "Do we need turnaround CIOs?" (to the article), given that many companies seem to be overwhelmed by the digitalization of the business.

CIO Magazine: Mr. Baur, why is your book published right now? Are corporate and IT crises on the rise?

Arnd Baur: The pressure on internal IT has increased even more. Not only does IT services have to be faster, better and cheaper as before, but the inevitable digitization of the business in many industries also faces additional, massive challenges. In addition to the CIO, some companies already have a Chief Digital Officer or transfer responsibility for IT at the customer interface to a Chief Marketing Officer. Extensive digitization projects, however, require a stable, flexible and agile IT landscape, which does not exist in many companies, but is often highly complex and inflexible. The pressure on IT continues to increase and can trigger or exacerbate crisis situations in IT.

The full interview can be found here

The so-called IT business alignment is often mentioned when planning the IT orientation. This means that IT should be oriented towards the requirements of the business or that the strategic IT objectives must be aligned with the corporate strategy. From our point of view, IT and business are not two different components of a company that need to be brought together first.

There is no marketing business alignment or finance business alignment, because marketing and finance are not outside the business but are part of the company. Continue reading . . . .