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The Benefits of a Chief Transformation Officer for Growth

N2Growth Blog

To tackle these issues, for the past five years, the new trend in executive hiring has been the Chief Transformation Officer (CTO) role. This is where the CTO role gets into the spotlight. Thus organizations need to become more agile and adaptable to fast pace changes over a long period.

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Continuous Development Will Change Organizations as Much as Agile Did

Harvard Business Review

Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. While Agile began as a product development innovation, it sparked a corporate strategy and process revolution. Insight Center. Competing in the Future.

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Whose Job Is It to Manage Freelancers?

Harvard Business Review

Organizations in every industry and geography are increasingly indebted to external talent, whom we term agile talent , to augment their resources in strategic areas. The benefits are substantial: Agile talent provides organizations with greater flexibility, speed, and competitive insight. Here’s the problem. Some are excellent.

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A 5-Part Process for Using Technology to Improve Your Talent Management

Harvard Business Review

And because organizational change tends to be driven by those who most acutely feel the pain, it’s often line managers who are the strongest champions for “talent tech”: innovations in how firms hire people, staff projects, evaluate performance, and develop talent. Talent tech raises urgency for further talent innovation.

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Which U.S. Companies Are Doing the Most R&D in China and India?

Harvard Business Review

Starting a global engineering operation “essentially doubles the expense for 6-12 months,” says former Informatica CTO, James Markarian. ” Anurag Garg, head of Polycom’s India Innovation Center echoes this, “Video conferencing as a tool is a big enabler for better collaboration with remote teams.”

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To Drive Digital Transformation, Focus on People

Strategy Driven

New financial innovations enabled both historic global economic growth and cascading global financial failures. agile studios), tools (communication such as Slack or Jira, etc.), Levine is an expert on lean and agile software development and information technology. In this context frameworks include physical space (e.g.,

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Yes, Managing IT Is Your Job

Harvard Business Review

Similar waves of innovative applications of technology (e.g., The only competitive advantage comes though agility, keeping ahead of the competition, moving on to the next technology wave. The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. ERP systems, RFID , knowledge management, business intelligence) have washed over organizations.