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The Leadership Revolution
How General Managers Lead People and Intelligence in the Age of AI
Why AI is a management challenge before it is a technical one, and how general managers turn scattered pilots into trusted, measurable value.
Healthcare technology executive · Author
Dr. Luis E. TaverasPhD
Executive Vice President and Chief Digital and Information Officer, Jefferson
For more than four decades he has led technology through some of the most complex challenges in business, government, and healthcare, from IBM and Accenture to the City of Buffalo and Jefferson.
“Technology provides the leverage. Leadership determines the outcome.”
Dr. Luis E. Taveras
The books
Two Books for Leaders
One for the CIO who has to turn a technology organization around. One for every general manager now accountable for AI.
#1 Amazon best seller
The 90 Day CIO
Strategies for Optimizing Outcomes and Value
A 90-day roadmap for moving a healthcare technology organization from reactive to high performance, built on The 90 Day CIO Model.
The models
Two Frameworks, One Conviction
InteractiveLeadership determines the outcome. Both models are interactive: tap or click any ring, segment, or line below to see what it means and where it lives in the book.
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The Leadership Revolution Model
- LeadershipHuman judgment, accountability, and trust hold everything else together.
- The AI FactoryHow an enterprise converts scattered enthusiasm into governed, measurable, supportable capability, and what it costs.
- Governance & PolicyRules that enable.
- Risk & SecurityTrust through verification.
- People & CapabilityGreat to phenomenal.
- Process & Data ReadinessWhat AI will amplify.
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The 90 Day CIO Model
- GovernanceSolid governance holds everything else together.
- AccountabilityClear ownership at every level, with the understanding that the entire organization, not only IT, is involved in cybersecurity.
- Operational ExcellenceDaily service reviews, standardized processes, and the discipline that moves a technology organization from reactive to mature.
- Financial DisciplineSpending with intent: reducing cost and waste without lowering standards, so there is room to minimize IT risk and fund innovation.
- EngagementKeeping the focus on people, teams, and guiding principles, so the whole organization understands the goal and its part in reaching it.
- CultureGoals are not achieved through force of will.
A career in technology leadership
Four Decades Where the Stakes Are Highest
- IBMWhere it started: data entry systems, and an early bet on becoming the expert others call
- AccentureSenior Partner, leading outsourcing work worth more than $500 million
- City of BuffaloCommissioner and CIO for the second-largest city in New York State
- Health systemsTechnology leadership at Saint Vincent’s, then CIO roles at Barnabas Health, Hartford HealthCare, and Lehigh Valley Health Network
- JeffersonEVP and Chief Digital and Information Officer for 34 hospitals, a health plan, and a university
40+Years leading technology
Top 30Healthcare CIOs in the U.S.
#1Amazon best seller, The 90 Day CIO
$18BHealth enterprise he serves at Jefferson
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Press kitDr. Luis E. Taveras
Bio, portrait, both books, the two models, selected press, and engagements.
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Free chapterThe Leadership Revolution
Part One and Chapter 1, “The Speed of AI,” exactly as it appears in the print edition.
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Free chapterThe 90 Day CIO
Chapter One, “The Evolution of the CIO to Change Agent.”
Download · 14 pages · PDFIn the press
Selected Coverage
- CIO MagazineTransforming Care From Reactive to Proactive With AIJuly 2026
- Becker’s Hospital ReviewThe CIO career path nobody plans forSeptember 2026
- DeloitteHealth systems look to scale AI beyond the pilot phaseJune 2025
- Becker’s Hospital ReviewJefferson’s CIO transforms IT into an “investment center”May 2025