Strategy Driven

AUGUST 17, 2011

You cannot presume that packaging is simply a matter of clever design that helps your products fly off the shelves of a super market. Just look at the ‘product of origin’ information on an Apple device. They may get sold in countries that do not have any recycling capability. A professional’s professional is a rainmaker.

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Self-aware Engineering Chief Technology Officer Learning-by-Doing 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2013

Protecting a company''s critical information is a value proposition. Losing that kind of information can mean a plunge in stock price and market share. So who''s responsible for information security in your company? If you get answers like this, it means that nobody in your company is responsible for information security.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

While business markets are obviously different from societies in many ways, they share more things in common, especially in today's networked world. And the lessons learned from political uprisings can inform businesses on how to adjust to the new, increasingly transparent world we live in. Here's how: Get your experts out front.

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How To Chief Technology Officer Audience Banking 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

June's Harvard Business Review features a story by Procter & Gamble Chief Technology Officer Bruce Brown and me on " How P&G Tripled Its Innovation Success Rate." The pace of change in today's markets is relentless. It even goes so far as to ask business leaders to think about what could make their business obsolete.

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Innovation Chief Technology Officer Business Model Definition 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

As a marketing ploy the move clearly failed. Instead of debuting a new, tech-savvy firm that would, in the words of chief digital officer Anne Vasquez, be like “having a tech startup culture meet a legacy corporate culture,” it came off as buzzword-laden and naive.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2013

In a recent article , I suggested that the role of the CIO needs to shift from Chief Information Officer to a Chief Innovation Officer, due to the massive, rapid, multiple technology-driven transformations that are occurring today.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

“Retailers are all using scanner data to track what happened at the point of sale ,” says Sam Hui, an associate professor of marketing at NYU’s Stern School of Business. “That’s the really big thing: Identifying what a volume of people do over a period of time, and how you read that information.”

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Retail Chief Technology Officer Technology Merchandising 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

” Get informed. Earlier this year, Emily Burns, founder and CEO of Learnivore, the Boston-based start-up that helps people find local instructors, coaches, and classes, set out to hire a chief technology officer. Today, “learning is a two-way street,” says Schwarz.

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