“The companies who find the key to earning back trust in technology are setting themselves up to be the 21st century’s biggest winners.”
— from Technology Governance, Chapter 1
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Who is Technology Governance for?
Good technology governance helps everyone, so this book is for everyone.
Business Leaders: every leader is asking whether their company is using technology in the right way. This book helps understand how to answer that question.
CTOs, CISOs, CIOs, General Counsels: Senior technical and legal executives will learn how to combine their expertise and their leadership to connect governance, strategy, and action.
Engineers and Technologists: More than ever, their work needs to connect with the values of their company. This book helps understand how to do that.
Everyone: Our expectations for technology matter. As workers, as consumers, and as citizens, we all have a role to play in determining the future. So, this book is also for every technology user and will help understand how our hopes for technology can become reality and what we should expect from business and other leaders.
What is Technology Governance about?
Technology governance is about choices. We have choices about technology and those choices matter.
There are no foregone conclusions in technology. Market forces, technology architecture, norms, and laws can have a strong effect on the choices that any company makes in adopting technologies, but those choices still belong to the company’s leaders. They ultimately have agency over what technologies get deployed and are accountable to their employees, shareholders, users and others for those choices. Choosing digital trust is always an option and, more often than not, it’ll prove to be the right one.
Technology Governance helps business leaders identify and make the choices that will lead to trust and success in a constantly evolving technology landscape.