Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Big companies’ struggles with innovation have been well documented — including by me. The term was coined by the first CTO of the US Government, Aneesh Chopra. Their thesis, which Chopra describes elegantly in his book Innovative State , is that the White House has the pull to sit people down at the table.

Industry 9

Industry CTO Game Theory Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

This was the case at Harman , which had achieved extraordinary success in the high-end automotive infotainment systems for luxury cars. Harman created a scaled-down version of its high-end system which proved a dismal failure in poor countries. So innovation and learning will move from rich countries to poor countries.

Chief Technology Officer 12

Chief Technology Officer CTO Constraint Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

It told how American Airlines and others had introduced systems to help their customers choose their products and services. These "channel" systems helped steer business to American Airlines. Similar waves of innovative applications of technology (e.g., The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2013

Managing this rapid change and fostering innovation while "keeping the trains running on time" is the primary leadership role required of any CIO, new or old. This will allow us to most effectively allocate resources to the most strategic and innovation-focused initiatives. Generate Room for Innovation.

CIO 8

CIO Positioning PPM Information Technology 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

New financial innovations enabled both historic global economic growth and cascading global financial failures. These new capabilities connect to the work we’ve done over the past several decades inside our enterprises to automate processes with tools — such as accounting systems, supply chain, call center, and such.

Agility 65

Agility Banking Supply Chain CTO 65

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Technology innovation is not slowing down or leveling off, but ramping up — and businesses will soon face a barrage of new digital possibilities. 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.

CIO 8

CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

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.”

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Those companies that do not continually innovate and adapt along with advances in technology and changes in society eventually see their products or services fade in importance. Also, consider adding language expertise to your existing systems, so that you can identify employees who might already have this without their managers being aware.

Globalization 8

Globalization Long-term Diversity CTO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Con: Breakthrough innovation may not get greenlit; time-to-market may seem to lag (though I’d argue what’s released is far better aligned with customer needs and more likely to successfully scale). They can get “lost” in the system and have to deal with more politics and tight budgets.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. Specifically, what is the role of the leader in creating and sustaining an innovative organization? Or, as Hill puts it, “Conventional leadership won’t get you to innovation.”

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. Specifically, what is the role of the leader in creating and sustaining an innovative organization? Or, as Hill puts it, “Conventional leadership won’t get you to innovation.”

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Charlie Hill , Distinguished Engineer and CTO, IBM Design, told us, “To deliver fundamentally different and better user experiences, designers want to take a step back and observe users actually doing their jobs. With this approach, cross-functional teams quickly develop prototypes to bounce off of customers.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

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? Separate Digital Innovation Stacks. Convergence.

CIO 9

CIO Organization Committee CTO 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Leaders equate risk with potential failure, so organizations have morphed into hierarchical, fixed systems to constrain variability within an acceptable range that has become progressively narrower. Risk is a necessary feature of innovation. There is no safe innovation, only varying risk and reward. Understanding Risk.

Dunning 8

Dunning Project CTO Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2013

Within a discovery environment, users can query a broad range of data, create output data (which is not typically allowed in such systems), and even load new data. With more flexibility and less bureaucratic overhead, users are able to be more innovative, more efficient, and are typically much more satisfied as well. IT management'

Organization 8

Organization CTO CIO Analysis 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. Scenarios can help IT organizations create more resilient plans, practice for business climate changes, and better drive innovation.

Scenario Planning 8

Scenario Planning CIO Planning Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

Industrial age measures can''t evaluate Serendipity Economy results, leaving its outcomes like invention and innovation, process improvements, and new businesses relegated to the evidence of anecdote. IT needs to create models that examine and reflect the potential for enhanced value coming from such systems. Courage and Patience.

CTO 8

CTO Franchising CIO Short-term 8