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.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

They’re off the charts in terms of analyzing all sorts of things from manufacturing processes to stocks to nuclear particles. 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.

Planning 8

Planning CTO Project Charisma 8

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.

CTO 10

CTO Lewin IPO Mentor 10

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.

Innovation 8

Innovation Planning Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Digital capabilities are about methods, processes and people — and a truly digital IT organization is different from traditional IT. 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.

CIO 8

CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

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.

Management 8

Management How To CTO Mentor 8

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. Coordination.

CIO 9

CIO Organization Committee CTO 9

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. Brands must align process and technology to make this happen. ” Data.

Brand 8

Brand Disintermediation Media Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

To respond to the volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity of the business environment today, IT leaders need to address risk differently by looking at it in totality and questioning their assumptions, challenging long-held assertions and recognizing both the analytical fallacies and less-than-perfect cognitive processes they use.

Dunning 8

Dunning Project CTO Innovation 8

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.

CIO 8

CIO Budgeting Enterprise Architecture Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

These companies have become agile in name only, as the process they’ve put in place often ends up hurting engineering motivation and productivity. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools. For example, in common practice, processes and tools have become the driver of work, not individuals and interactions.

Agility 8

Agility Engineering Software How To 8