This book shows in a practical way how IT organizations have to position themselves optimally in this dynamically changing world and what this means for the leadership of this increasingly important IT. In addition, the book takes a closer look at the topic of managing an IT organization: What is the role and what are the leadership responsibilities of a CIO? How and by what means can an IT organization best be managed? How can complex change processes and transformations be managed? Thus, the book offers a practical guide for organizational change or reorganization of IT with many tips on change management, leadership, and agile methods and approaches in the new IT organization. The content The IT organization in the change of the time The structure of IT organizations Management of IT organizations The author Volker Johanning is an expert in strategy, leadership and restructuring with more than 20 years of experience in the management of corporations and medium-sized hidden champions. He has been working successfully as a strategy consultant and interim manager for more than 10 years.

This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.