Strategy Driven

AUGUST 17, 2011

Imagine you are a product manager at Proctor and Gamble or Unilever and are charged with designing a new line of detergents or packaged food. You cannot presume that packaging is simply a matter of clever design that helps your products fly off the shelves of a super market. Sustainability is part of every professional’s job.

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

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

We have a unique perch from which to observe how well organizations are “tuned” to create a productive and positive work environment for freelancers and other agile talent. Organizations do better when managers have access to advice and best practice in leading mixed teams. Create the role of “external talent manager.”

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CTO Agility Management Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2012

His observation was that you could massively improve the quality of a product by resolving a tiny fraction of the problems. Indeed, I just received an email from an executive about a member of his team who has a particular tendency to want to do everything. Interestingly, this team member is the most productive member on his team.

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Chief Technology Officer Handbook Quality Learning-by-Doing 18

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Sales of our existing products and services will increase as emerging economies grow and consumer incomes rise. The best approach to emerging markets is to export stripped-down versions of existing products and services, and sell them at lower prices. We should be able to meet their needs with cheap products based on older technology.

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Chief Technology Officer CTO Constraint Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

“We need to get rid of the static production lines where only one car and one configuration can be built,” he says, adding that the automotive industry in Germany can already support over one million configurations of a car model — as opposed to U.S., Self-Repairing Processes Solve Their Own Problems.

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Process Automotive Chief Technology Officer Supply Chain 9

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." That approach allowed P&G to successfully launch Align , a product that was almost killed due to an initially low forecast. Q: P&G is a product-based company.

Innovation 14

Innovation Chief Technology Officer Business Model Definition 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

And this is precisely the problem that many companies are having in their efforts to collaborate with partners, share resources and knowledge, and create new products and services. In particular, large companies want to partner with small firms that have developed advanced, game-changing technologies. Hardly an encouraging finding.

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Innovation Chief Technology Officer CEO Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

The right replacement CEO will complement the existing leadership team’s skill sets and have experience in scaling and managing a company through the startup’s upcoming stages of growth. Facilitate close connections between the founder, the new CEO, and the team. Break away from the past. Minimize the handover period.

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CEO Tacit Knowledge Chief Technology Officer How To 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2013

And, just as the CIO''s role needs to change, so too does the CTO''s—from Chief Technology Officer to Chief Transformation Officer. Game-changing product and service innovations can be more easily identified when transformation is a business imperative. That''s a huge shift.

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CTO CIO Chief Technology Officer Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2011

In our fast-paced, productivity-focused lives and workplaces, we are losing our gardens — literally and figuratively. I had lunch recently with Rajip, the Chief Technology Officer of a large investment bank. When we returned to his office after spending an hour together, he had received 138 new email messages.

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Chief Technology Officer Hotels Learning-by-Doing Creativity 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2017

The White House recently formed the Office of American Innovation, which has a stated focus on “implementing policies and scaling proven private-sector models to spur job creation and innovation.” ” It’s a familiar idea: A SWAT innovation team is created, ready to inject new thinking into a burdensome bureaucracy.

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Advice Bureaucracy Innovation Chief Technology Officer 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

Even most disheartening, however, is that the focus of these efforts seems to be on the production process—meaning the mechanical aspects of publishing text and image online— rather than helping journalists originate, report, and develop stories. As a marketing ploy the move clearly failed. Eyeballs Instead of Experiences.

Audience 9

Audience Chief Technology Officer Media Video 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

The redder the location, the more frequently it was trafficked: For chief technology officer Joe Lezon, the results were both helpful and surprising. ” Lezon, along with Alex and Ani’s head of merchandising and head of sales operations, used the data to inform product placement. .”

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Retail Chief Technology Officer Technology Merchandising 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

They’re sophisticated buyers of products and services, and they use a similar lens to decide whether to read something: They calculate whether it will provide value to them. You and Your Team Series. Bad Writing Is Destroying Your Company’s Productivity. Most people understand this already, at least intellectually.

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Audience Chief Technology Officer Open-book CTO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

How should you establish a positive, productive working relationship with your new manager? “Recognize that people do draw some impressions about you pretty quickly,” says Karen Dillon, coauthor of Competing Against Luck and the HBR Guide to Office Politics. How do you get to know them without seeming like a kiss-up?

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How To Chief Technology Officer Case Study Emotional Intelligence 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

. “The higher you go in an organization, the more you’re expected to make decisions on which you might not have direct experience or expertise,” says Roger Schwarz, an organizational psychologist and the author of Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams. “It’s a beginning of the shift in your career.” Face your fears.

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Management How To CTO Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

Khoja recalls his chief technology officer, Eric Chapman, announcing a week into the search that they were going to have to choose their engineers in a different way. So when Roshan advertised that it was hiring, ten thousand people responded, but few had even the most rudimentary qualifications.

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Innovation Chief Technology Officer Engineering Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2017

The innovation teams at these companies use them to track and process all the ideas and whether the company committed to putting them into practice. Some companies use this software for process innovation; others develop new products; others seek efficiencies and cost savings. Diversity – more kinds of people contributing.

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Innovation Airlines Chief Technology Officer Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

Khoja recalls his chief technology officer, Eric Chapman, announcing a week into the search that they were going to have to choose their engineers in a different way. So when Roshan advertised that it was hiring, ten thousand people responded, but few had even the most rudimentary qualifications.

Innovation 11

Innovation Chief Technology Officer Engineering Disruptive Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

That's often the case with founder-led companies in which the founder wants a team in which no one can emerge as a rival. Apple continued to run with little discernable change, except that Cook's black open collar shirts substituted for Jobs's black turtleneck sweaters on the product announcement stage. Except for one thing.

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COO Wireless Ryan Chief Operating Officer 16