Skip Prichard

APRIL 12, 2021

For example: someone brings bad news about a project. Insect hives, flocks of birds, and schools of fish are a few examples. He was the CTO of a global manufacturing company. This is the ability to ask yourself, ‘What is happening in my body right now?’, ‘What is my emotional state?’, and ‘What am I thinking?’

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Rajesh Setty

JANUARY 1, 2012

With Lens.ly, you can download your Flickr albums for offline viewing – for example, you are on a plane or in a place where there is no Internet connection. Most recently, Joe served as the CTO of SimpleGeo and now he is dedicating his time to Sprint.ly. It is one of those apps that you wish Flickr provided by default.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2017

When I launched my first company in 2008 (CarZen, acquired by Liberty Mutual), one of my first hires was a CTO. I made him the CTO’s protégé, and had the CTO spend time teaching and evaluating him. I made him the CTO’s protégé, and had the CTO spend time teaching and evaluating him.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

One retail CTO summed it up well at a recent SAS event when he said, “We don’t want to just struggle through and be hanging by our fingertips when the economy recovers. The gift bag, which combines brown bags and gift wrap, is a great example. Subscribe now to get your subscription to this award-winning quarterly magazine.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

One approach that 10X has recommended is creating a roving CTO or project managers. In this sense it is similar to the roving CTO but focused more on the depth and effectiveness of the agile talent network. ” Similar in some respects to the CTO role is the role of the technical “chief.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

One CTO I coached realized he’d been delegating too much because he no longer had proper visibility into what his teams were working on. For example, one CMO told me a story of how he had been working on a key partnership initiative for his company. Reset with your team.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

For example, you might develop norms about what constitutes a low-risk decision (for example, it affects few people, or the related costs fall below a certain threshold), and encourage the team to resolve low-risk conflicts without group intervention. They ought to be heavily involved in coming up with remediation items.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

As promised , I asked Bruce Brown , P&G's CTO, one of the questions readers submitted last week: "As you look forward into the future what do you see as P&G's largest challenges, as seen through your eyes as CTO?" For example, "beauty" means fair skin to many Asian consumers and tanned skin to many U.S. Non-obvious disruptions."

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

This isn’t the fault of the technology or the CTO, who usually manages it. Because it involves software, many companies make it the CTO’s responsibility. The Airbnb example is particularly instructive. The highly targeted buyer and seller rating system that eBay uses makes an excellent example.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

Sure, there are exceptions who are both visionary CEOs and innovators — Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos, for example — but there are very few companies that can stomach that sort of leadership. This is not a CTO role or a role that reports to the CEO. You do not work for the CEO, or alongside the CTO, CIO, and CFO.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

Starting a global engineering operation “essentially doubles the expense for 6-12 months,” says former Informatica CTO, James Markarian. However, we found that the companies who are most successful with global engineering have vastly different motivations beyond cost reduction, albeit some of the same challenges as new entrants.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

For example, one of the most important discoveries in the sequencing of the human genome came from Fred Sanger who reversed his process to achieve a breakthrough. He had her sit next to the CEO, and enabled her to wander around and ask questions to everyone, including the CEO and the CTO.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2011

The news had just hit that Danny Lewin — the co-founder of Akamai Technologies, its charismatic CTO, a former commando in the Israeli Special Forces, and MIT mathematics genius who led the company from a math class to an IPO and a market cap of $30 billion — had suddenly died. For all of us, Danny was our CTO and visionary.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

For example, if a CRO or CTO leaves a young company, it can cripple the organization. For example, one of our clients in the UK scored lower than average on transparency when they anonymously polled their employees. What really matters here is the employee’s perception of how transparent management is.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Some examples of these competencies include: Conducting customer interviews and user testing. For example, Google requires PMs to pass a technical skills test regardless of what product they’ll work on. VMotion at VMware was a great example of this. Running design sprints. Feature prioritization and roadmap planning.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

For example, if you want clients for your CTO coaching business, then chief technology officers (and the people who know them) are your audience. Example: The CEO memoir. I’ll give you a specific example of how we took an author through this process. So ask yourself explicitly who that is.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

For example, the CTO of DonorsChoose is in regular contact with board member Jeff Weiner , the CEO of Linkedin. And if board members had more contact with employees beyond the CEO, those board members would have a more complete understanding of the company's strengths and weaknesses.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 24, 2021

For example, early sequential computers were programmed in assembly language statements, which have a 1:1 mapping to the computer-executed instructions. Karu Sankaralingam, PhD, is founder/CEO/CTO of Madison, WI-based SimpleMachines, Inc. About the Author. He has 17 patents and has published 91 papers.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

But the experiment raised questions, for example, about what latitude bosses had in deciding who’d be allowed to take on extra projects and about whether performance on these extra projects could or should count toward an employee’s annual appraisal and compensation. Leaders must foster a culture of learning.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

For example, Camille Fournier, former CTO of Rent the Runway, described the pain and reward of planning. But as you develop the habit of planning, the pain associated with it usually decreases. And the more positive reinforcement you get only increases, the more you do it.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

Recent, well-documented examples include Progressive Insurance''s use of predictive modeling in the property and casualty insurance space and the many industrial manufacturing companies that are generating almost all their margin and profit from after-sale, value-added services based on information generated by embedded sensors.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

’ Give an example, talk about what happened, and the result,” she says. ” This research had two advantages: One, it made the hiring process go more smoothly and, two, it has helped Emily manage Heather, her new CTO. So keep your comments to areas where you have authority and legitimacy,” she says.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Organizations in every industry need to follow their example. The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. Companies that are successfully leading digital transformation, and preparing for the coming digital wave (and it is coming) use these three levers to re-invent their IT. Reinventing Corporate IT An HBR Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

According to the company's CTO, Phil Shelley, the time needed to generate a comprehensive set of promotions dropped from eight weeks to one, and is still dropping. These aren't just a few flashy examples. This change allowed the company to be much faster and more precise with its promotions.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Look for ways to stretch the boundaries of current innovation efforts, but remember you are not the CEO or CTO. Some might involve investigating broader areas of opportunity (for example, “wearables”). You need them to want to support you, not worry that you are gunning for their jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

For example, you might be able to identify a customer need that isn''t being met by your company''s current product line, and propose a new one. It might also help to study people who are stuck in their careers as examples of what not to do, Watkins says. Identify behaviors that you can emulate while being true to yourself.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Charlie Hill , Distinguished Engineer and CTO, IBM Design, told us, “To deliver fundamentally different and better user experiences, designers want to take a step back and observe users actually doing their jobs. With this approach, cross-functional teams quickly develop prototypes to bounce off of customers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

At Pixar, for example, the company was caught up short in 2008 in a clash over production schedules for the movie Up and the short film Cars Toons. At eBay Germany, the authors found examples of how a maturing company like eBay can retain its innovative spirit.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

At Pixar, for example, the company was caught up short in 2008 in a clash over production schedules for the movie Up and the short film Cars Toons. At eBay Germany, the authors found examples of how a maturing company like eBay can retain its innovative spirit.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

For example, Zappos and Gilt create highly compelling interactions shaped by data and aggressive remarketing tactics once they’ve found a shopper. Data can, for example, be clustered to find naturally occurring segments of customers that are more significant strategically than traditional consumer taxonomies.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2013

At Boeing, all enterprise technology (including digital) investments are managed by the CTO, which enables significant synergies. For example, BMW set up two committees focused on digitization to deliver on its enterprise goals, including the design and delivery of a custom car within six days.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

Let''s consider the last example: many organizations are making a big bet on cloud services. The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. Scenarios help IT create more resilient plans by providing a new testing mechanism for everything from portfolio management to the consumerization of IT to employing cloud services. IT management'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Apple , Amazon , and Google are not the only examples risk taking of game-changing innovations. Netflix is another example of disruptive innovation. What is the key similarity behind all such examples? The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. Even more impressively, their spin out Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

Take for example 7-Eleven, a company that implemented enterprise social networking with no idea as to it eventual use. The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. A presentation developed for a conference does not produce much value until it is actually presented, an event which may occur weeks or months after the document is completed.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2016

For example, Millennials were more likely than those in the Class of 1992 to report that their family of origin was a major source of satisfaction in their lives and that most of the important things that happen to them involve the family from which they came.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

When it comes to defining use cases, for example, the CMO will often mean a few clear sentences. The CMO and CIO (and potentially the CTO) must bring complete transparency to the process. Business solution architects,” for example, put all the discovered data together and organize it so that it’s ready to analyze.

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