Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

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.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Big data has the potential to revolutionize management. Simply put, because of big data, managers can measure, and hence know, radically more about their businesses, and directly translate that knowledge into improved decision making and performance. Of course, companies such as Google and Amazon are already doing this.

Management 8

Management Airlines Supply Chain CTO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. Once again, it has started in the bowels of technology companies and startups. ” The case of healthcare technology firm athenahealth is an instructive one. Continuous Development is a growing trend in the software industry.

Agility 8

Agility Development Organization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

Only 31% of Fortune 100 boards currently have a director who is a CIO, even though technology is at the core of every business today. As Sheila Jordan, CIO at Symantec and director at FactSet, put it, “All companies are technology companies today. Technology is a lever to run the business, but also to change and grow.”

CIO 9

CIO Committee Technology P&L 9

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

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

I''m often struck by how many articles exclusively focus on new or emerging technology and their productivity or efficiency effects. Every discussion on the role of IT and CIOs should start with the question: "What are the potential uses of this technology that will guarantee we stay in business?" Generating Top-Line Growth.

Enterprise Architecture 8

Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

With a tsunami of new digital technologies all converging simultaneously — social, mobile, cloud, analytics and embedded devices — there has been, once again, a cry for corporate IT to radically change to enable the digital transformation of businesses. I don''t care what industry you''re talking about.".

CIO 8

CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2019

My first opportunity to gauge my theory of people-centric leading was speaking to a room filled with young entrepreneurs and employees from various industries who were beginning to enter management positions. Dan and I wanted to perform one last act of servant leading. Conclusion.

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Globalization Leadership Conference Diversity 276

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

It''s time for CIOs to move beyond their roles as chief technology officers, and embrace the name with all of its implications: Chief Information Officer. Because no one is managing the store. At the same time, technology budgets are static or contracting, and non-IT execs want more attention to cost-cutting.

CIO 8

CIO CFO Zero Based Budgeting Chief Technology Officer 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Businesses from top global firms to main street staples are looking into a future driven by new technology capabilities. organizational structure (such decentralizing and aligning technology to business areas more effectively), and governance. Levine is an expert on lean and agile software development and information technology.

Agility 65

Agility Banking Supply Chain CTO 65

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. I said at the meeting: ''This kid might outlive RIM.''

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CTO Apparel Ryan Proposal 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 9

CTO Lewin IPO Mentor 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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

For example, if you want clients for your CTO coaching business, then chief technology officers (and the people who know them) are your audience. An entrepreneur and CEO of a large commercial plumbing contracting business wanted to write a book in order to raise his profile in the plumbing industry and drive clients to his business.

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Audience Chief Technology Officer Open-book CTO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

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. The clients don’t have to own or maintain the technology. The rise of cloud computing changed all this. Insight Center.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

And after several fruitless meetings with the COO, the HR chief, and industry consultants, he’d decided that he needed to investigate the issue himself. But not ever as fast as the manager wants!” ” “Where is the manager?” The manager says I’m the only one she trusts with the toilets.”

Case Study 8

Case Study Airlines COO CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

With Frederick''s Taylor invention of scientific management in the 1880s, and its subsequent assimilation into what we now consider modern management, organizations have used logic and rationality to the eliminate waste, to seek efficiency, and to transfer human knowledge to tools and processes. Serendipity into Performance.

CTO 8

CTO Franchising CIO Short-term 8

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. Building resilient IT plans that take into account future uncertainties in the technological realm is just the start.

Scenario Planning 8

Scenario Planning CIO Planning Uncertainty 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

JUNE 26, 2014

E-commerce players were still figuring things out, and brick-and-mortar stores weren’t really experimenting with technology. Yet based on my own experiences, I believed we could use technology to make shopping more efficient. We’re constantly evaluating new technologies and platforms. And then we brainstorm.

Brand 11

Brand CTO Marketing Retail 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

But no one yet is successfully leveraging consumer data and relationships across the digital-physical divide at scale, despite early experimentation with technology such as beacons. Technology can power smarter media placements and dynamic creative strategies at scale. Brands must align process and technology to make this happen.

Brand 8

Brand Disintermediation Media Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

CIOs, tasked with turning technology into revenue, are themselves pounding the table demanding better requirements for Big Data initiatives. 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.

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CIO Budgeting Enterprise Architecture Marketing 8