Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

The best managers hire smart people to work for them. How do you manage people who have more experience or more knowledge? It’s natural to feel worried or insecure about your ability to manage someone who has superior experience or knowhow. Talk to your manager about the attributes you bring to your role.

Management 8

Management How To CTO Mentor 8

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Needing a way to capture and document this event, I recruited Dan Evans , our Chief Marketing Officer , to join me on a journey that would span over 42,000 miles on four continents ( 11 countries total, including stops ) to interview and record sessions with experts in the science and art of leadership. Casablanca, Morocco.

Globalization 276

Globalization Leadership Conference Diversity 276

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

While both measures are less than perfect, and we recognize that many companies use Eastern Europe and South American engineering sites, the GEI works well to demonstrate the diversity of industries—it isn’t just software and IT—with a significant portion of their R&D overseas. The top thirty companies are shown below.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring CTO Company Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

I don''t care what industry you''re talking about.". IT is already being asked both to industrialize traditional infrastructures and systems fast to save costs, and to innovate customer experiences and operations with new digital technologies. 57% of digital leaders use both marketing and IT as primary drivers of digital governance.

CIO 8

CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

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.

Enterprise Architecture 8

Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

For example, if a CRO or CTO leaves a young company, it can cripple the organization. We found that one significant driver of employee happiness is the employee’s rating of management transparency, showing a stronger correlation with company culture then factors like benefits or work-life balance.

Morale 12

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.

CTO 9

CTO Lewin IPO Mentor 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Here, Try Some Nixon and Kimchi: How the Garment Industry Came to Bangladesh Planet Money I admit it: The reference to Nixon and kimchi in the headline got me to read it, but this piece on how Bangladesh came to be a world center for apparel manufacturing held my interest. They said, ''This kid is a fad. Everyone laughed."

CTO 8

CTO Apparel Ryan Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

” This engagement between directors and management starts with the permission and knowledge of the CEO. ” “On the FactSet board, I’ve been encouraged to meet with the management team and to give advice to the CEO and the CIO,” says Jordan. ” Look for hybrids and cast a wide net.

CIO 9

CIO Committee Technology P&L 9

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.” Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This seems to be a key question on the minds of not just marketers, but company strategists these days. We have shifted from a competitive landscape in which companies are more exclusively focused on external forces affecting their industries and sectors, to one that has become significantly more customer-centric.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

Sephora, the cosmetics retailer, has been widely recognized as a leader in integrating its digital marketing efforts into its overall strategy. As one sign of that, Sephora has a single executive who serves as both chief marketing officer and chief digital officer. Marketing and internal IT expertise are both at the table.

Brand 11

Brand CTO Marketing Retail 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

Yet, in a function driven by innovation and the uncertainties surrounding the application and implication of future technologies, not using scenarios is tantamount to management malpractice. For many industries, technology has become the transformative force. The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. IT management'

Scenario Planning 8

Scenario Planning CIO Planning Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

Brand marketers must demand change from their own media-buying ecosystem. To better understand the long-term branding assets they can create through their marketing efforts, brands will need to shift their metrics of success to focus on aggregate reach, engaged reach, time spent, and true “followership” (or even subscribers).

Brand 8

Brand Disintermediation Media Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

As a result, in recent years, innovative ideas have been stifled and entire industries have fallen into the death spiral of cost/price cutting commoditization. IT creates risk confusing leadership, governance, and managing. Enterprise IT is no different. inaction disguised as patience and impatience also contribute to opportunity risk.

Dunning 8

Dunning Project CTO Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

In all this table-pounding is a central truth in today’s Big Data world: both the CMO and CIO are on the hook for turning all that data into above-market growth. Most CMOs have woken up to the fact that technology is fundamentally changing what marketers do and we can’t treat IT like a back-office function,” says Jonathan Becher, CMO of SAP.

CIO 8

CIO Budgeting Enterprise Architecture Marketing 8