Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

A good way to keep yourself honest is to create a scenario that meets your stated goals but fails in other ways. If you hem and haw and equivocate, then you need to drill deeper and make sure you figure out what other goals must be included in this scenario for you to be satisfied with the result. Example: The CEO memoir.

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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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Morale Attrition Early Adopters Benchmarking 12

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

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 19, 2016

For example, Camille Fournier, former CTO of Rent the Runway, described the pain and reward of planning. Depending on the size of the team and the overlap of the work, it can also make the process easier to break down monthly goals into a weekly plan together. Planning takes longer than expected (and so does the work).

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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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Technology Talent Management Process Management 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

This should go without saying, but it’s vitally important to develop relationships with the CEO, business unit leaders, and other key executives to understand the company’s strategy, so that the innovation approach and projects you pursue align with overall corporate goals. Some may involve developing specific capabilities.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

And, they align the KPIs of each function to common goals. Organizations in every industry need to follow their example. The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. They reduce duplication of efforts and skills, thus reducing operational costs. They drive innovation and speed up time to market. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs).

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

” Remember, Hill adds, your goal is to “figure out how you’re going to work together and support your employee.” ’ Give an example, talk about what happened, and the result,” she says. .” Don’t go in “trying to protect your ego.” ” Give—and take—feedback.

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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. Support your boss in reaching her goals. Are they clumsy politically?

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CTO Case Study Career Project 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2013

At Boeing, all enterprise technology (including digital) investments are managed by the CTO, which enables significant synergies. ES helped CBA achieve its goal of both reducing costs and becoming number one in customer experience. This approach works well when there are one or two enterprise-wide goals.

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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. Metrics cannot be focused on campaign-specific goals such as reach and conversion. Technology can power smarter media placements and dynamic creative strategies at scale. ” Data.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Measurement risk: Fail to measure the real goal of innovation, focus on project progress rather than value created and turning management measures into goals instigating aberrant behavior. Small, agile cycles of development and risk assessment help to measure goals, evaluate success and easily change execution strategy.

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Dunning Project CTO Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2016

” “My parents expect me to marry a particular (kind of) person, even if committing to that potential spouse would cut against my career goals.” The goal is to clarify, to find out what they (your stakeholders) really think, not what you think they think.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

But no one was sure what to cut and what to keep because the goals had not been clearly enough defined. A successful partnership, therefore, begins with the CMO being able to define business goals, use cases, and specific requirements of any data or analytics initiative. The solution? Cut back the scope. Bring complete transparency.

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CIO Budgeting Enterprise Architecture Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

For example, in common practice, processes and tools have become the driver of work, not individuals and interactions. It is no wonder that the CTO of this company said, “my engineers feel like short order cooks in the back of a diner.” The goal of the pod is to drive collaboration.

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