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The Benefits of a Chief Transformation Officer for Growth

N2Growth Blog

As executive search consultants, we focus on understanding and optimizing businesses’ intended transformations and how they are shaping strategic responses to industry-level changes. All organizations must face major transformations while working to advance in their industry. This is where the CTO role gets into the spotlight.

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The Future of Our Partnership With Machines

Skip Prichard

If we manage the growth of smart automation properly, and plan for it adequately, it can be relatively painless. meaning that they can already perform key business management functions. In an office environment, tasks like sending out invoices, processing payments, and managing payroll can also be automated fairly easily.

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Leadership: A Global Perspective

N2Growth Blog

This fall, I embarked on a worldwide quest to gain insights and perspectives on global leadership in the 21st century. To do this effectively, I sought to understand two things: Elucidate the emerging leadership traits and competencies that are most relevant today.

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11 Ideas for Economic Recovery

Strategy Driven

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. With that understanding, focus on how you will continuously recycle resources from invention to deployment, management, offloading and back. We want to come out strong.”

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A 5-Part Process for Using Technology to Improve Your Talent Management

Harvard Business Review

And because organizational change tends to be driven by those who most acutely feel the pain, it’s often line managers who are the strongest champions for “talent tech”: innovations in how firms hire people, staff projects, evaluate performance, and develop talent. Insight Center.

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Self-management: Being a PM can be incredibly stressful. Company Fit.

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Yes, Managing IT Is Your Job

Harvard Business Review

ERP systems, RFID , knowledge management, business intelligence) have washed over organizations. This trend toward ever more critical reliance on IT is not only transforming the idea and practice of corporate IT, but has disruptive operational implications for every manager. Similar waves of innovative applications of technology (e.g.,