LEADING TRANSFORMATION
REAL stories & KEY Lessons on digital transformation
Leading transformative change requires wide-ranging skills, from defining and sharing a vision to winning hearts and minds.
Digital Trailblazer is a can’t-miss resource for product, technology, and data leaders – from those aspiring to leadership roles through vice presidents, CIOs, and CDOs – offering more than 50 lessons to guide your way.
Digital Trailblazer is available in print, digital, Kindle, Audible and other formats.
This book is for ALL Aspiring transformation leaders
Product managers, agile product owners, or UX designers launching digital products and improving customer experiences
DevOps leaders, software developers, DevOps engineers, architects, and IT Ops modernizing apps and automating workflows
Data leaders, data scientists, DataOps engineers, and data governance specialists ushering their company into a data-driven future
Infosec leaders looking to partner with innovators, find ways to shift-left security practices, and seek a safer operational environment
Business leaders, CXOs, VPs, directors, and marketers committed to learning the more technical aspects of digital transformation
CIO and CDO - Looking to hire and mentor Digital Trailblazers on their teams
In Digital Trailblazer, technology leadership expert and former CIO and CTO Isaac Sacolick pulls back the curtain on his career and shares real-world stories and need-to-know lessons to accelerate your technology leadership journey.
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Praise for Digital Trailblazer
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Readers of this well-written book get two for the price of one: a detailed behind-the-scenes look at specific situations common to all businesses adopting, absorbing, and adjusting to new digital tools and processes; and over fifty practical lessons, tactics, and strategies for becoming a digital trailblazer, either as an executive or an enterprise. - Gil Press, Forbes
Read Digital Trailblazer to deepen your understanding of how to lead transformation, then gift it to your team or mentees to help them shave years off learning how to lead change. - The Enterpriser’s Project
About Digitial trailblazer
Stories and lessons to help you tackle one of the most challenging jobs in technology and business – leading transformation
Transformation is a permanent fixture in business today. Today, companies must always be evolving experiences, technology capabilities, and data-driven behaviors.
To be successful, businesses will need more transformation leaders – Digital Trailblazers who can lead diverse teams and evolve technology practices in this ever-changing digital world.
Digital Trailblazer is a guide to help technology and business leaders at all stages of their careers expand their skills and grow confidence in leading transformation initiatives.
Author and former CIO and CTO Isaac Sacolick spent three decades on the front lines of technology and business change – guiding digital transformations at companies big and small. Along the way, Sacolick has witnessed a range of behaviors and actions that have shaped the results of those transformations. From tense IT Ops conference calls to make-or-break executive meetings, Sacolick presents the challenging scenarios faced by product, technology, and data leaders and helps readers learn how to lead transformations and become Digital Trailblazers.
Digital Trailblazer: Essential Lessons to Jumpstart Transformation and Accelerate Your Technology Leadership
By Isaac Sacolick
About the Author
Isaac Sacolick is the president and founder of StarCIO, a technology learning company that guides leaders on digital transformation. A lifelong technologist, Isaac has served in startup CTO and transformational CIO roles. He founded StarCIO with the belief that agile ways of working and data-driven practices can empower diverse teams to drive transformation. He is a writer, keynote speaker, and author of the Amazon bestseller, Driving Digital: The Leader’s Guide to Business Transformation Through Technology. Recognized as a top digital influencer by HuffPost, Forbes, and IDG, he is a frequent contributor to InfoWorld and CIO.com where he writes about digital transformation, agile management, and other technology and leadership topics.
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