Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Chief-Technology-Officer CTO, and Human Resources Business Partners within the IT Team and Mike will serve as the Accountability-Team to check-in and coach the directors for completion of the 100 day action plans. CTO – Why are we here? How does this fit into the larger strategic goals? What’s the company’s goal?

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Team Building Team CTO Leadership 129

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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Once you accept them and make planning a habit, you can harness its power to create a happier, healthier, and more productive life. For example, Camille Fournier, former CTO of Rent the Runway, described the pain and reward of planning. Planning will trigger pain — at least initially. But that sends them in a downward spiral.

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Planning CTO Project Charisma 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2013

As we''ve noted in our previous blog , senior business partners might not be that knowledgeable about what actually drives productivity on the front lines. They start with a map of the company''s critical business capabilities — those concrete business activities that are vital to meeting a strategic goal (e.g. IT management'

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Innovation CIO ROI CTO 8

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. Bad Writing Is Destroying Your Company’s Productivity. No matter what your goals are, your writing must reach the right audience. Josh Bernoff.

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Audience Chief Technology Officer Open-book CTO 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Alignment Teams must work in a way that gets the best input from all members, and gains understanding and commitment around common goals, schedules, methods, and decisions/directions of all kinds. His latest book is People Over Process: Leadership for Agility (Productivity Press, September 30, 2019). He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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Agility Banking Supply Chain CTO 65

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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Innovation Planning Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

Ironically, autonomy in corporate computing does not necessarily lead to greater productivity. In fact, our laissez faire approach to computer education — little guidance, hands-off, freedom to make decisions — leads to lower productivity absent a system for accountability. They have remained, instead, CTO''s.

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CIO CFO Zero Based Budgeting Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

” The goal here is to help your colleague accept her new authority over you and demonstrate that you trust her to do the job. Sutton agrees that your goal should be to support your peer-turned-manager as she “grows into the new role.” Ankit became CTO. It’s easier now that we don’t work together.”

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CTO Case Study Learning Curve Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

As a VP charged with talent tech innovation at a large consumer products company told us: “We started our digital transformation top-down, creating a sense of urgency and cascading it down. One CTO we spoke to tells a story about an AI project that “hit the wall” despite a sequence of green lights.

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Technology Talent Management Process Management 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2014

These moments of quiet and disconnection help your brain realize that you can have that separation and still have that productivity and happiness,” says Achor. The productivity of a vacation is you’re trying to lower your stress, raise your levels of happiness, and create novelty for the brain,” says Achor. “If

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Stress Supply Chain CTO Case Study 11

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.” “I learned how to gauge the quality of the work product even if I can’t do the work myself,” she says. .” Don’t go in “trying to protect your ego.”

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Management How To CTO Mentor 8

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. Support your boss in reaching her goals. "Every organization has needs that nobody is paying attention to, or people are actively ignoring," Maignan Wilkins says. Principles to Remember.

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CTO Case Study Career Project 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2013

What do the following items have in common: credit cards and streaming or recorded music, robots for production, CAD systems, telephone networks, digital games, computers in products like cars and vacuum cleaners, sensors, and video consoles used in remote mining? Answer: They are all digital and connectable.

CIO 8

CIO Organization Committee CTO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

Disintermediating traditional media pipes to the audience compels brands to maximize ownership of consumer touch points to deliver content, experiences, and products. 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.

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Brand Disintermediation Media Metrics 8

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

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

But no one was sure what to cut and what to keep because the goals had not been clearly enough defined. Companies that are more data-driven are five percent more productive and six percent more profitable than other companies. Vendors salivated at what essentially was a blank check to collect and analyze everything. The solution?

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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. In one large Fortune 100 company, the head of digital products said to us, “we’re not allowed to question the Agile process.” Agile software development.

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Agility Engineering Software How To 8