Skip Prichard

MARCH 13, 2020

A good place to start is to take the initiative: You can either wait for your employer to replace you with one or several automation solutions, or you can incorporate automation into your workflows in order to become more productive. The more you are able to increase your productivity, the more you increase your value.

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Blanchard Education CTO Technology 103

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

We have become aware of vulnerabilities involving certain NETGEAR products and have issued a security advisory. We plan to release firmware updates that fix all vulnerabilities for all affected products that are within the security support period. An excerpt is below. How would your CFO or CIO handle this? His new book is Tech Debt 2.0™:

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Bottom-up Software Policies CIO 121

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.” Aron Vellekoop Len/Getty Images. Core Competencies.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

To learn more about SAS, its products and services, visit www.sas.com. 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. Improve productivity. sas com Magazine can also be accessed online at www.sas.com/sascom.

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Real Estate Magazine Rogers Long-term 66

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Now, every company of any scale and in any sector wants to be closer to its customers, to understand them more deeply, and to tailor their products and services to serve them more precisely. They followed a sequence that resulted in new products or major updates to products every year or two. They faced a culture clash, however.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

After an intense innovation workshop, the CTO of a globally-successful Chinese electronics supplier approached, unhappily. Ask, instead, what makes you the best innovation partners they could possibly have in this product category? The CTO grimaced. They know you're a terrific vendor. Begin with what works," I added.

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CTO Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

Starting a global engineering operation “essentially doubles the expense for 6-12 months,” says former Informatica CTO, James Markarian. They believe in strong, empowered global leadership, at both HQ and at remote sites. In fact, costs go up initially. Pay the true cost and invest.”

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Offshoring CTO Company Engineering 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. What most distinguishes innovation leadership, the book argues, is recognition that innovation is a “team sport,” not the act of a sole inventor. As Harvard Business School Professor Linda A.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

That requires a new way of thinking about people and leadership. But there’s a model of leadership that will. Above all, driving the use of these techniques depends on the stance of leadership. Leadership should make it clear that they are offended by wasting time, as it’s also wasting energy, resources and brain space.

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Agility Banking Supply Chain CTO 73

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 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

Apple continued to run with little discernable change, except that Cook's black open collar shirts substituted for Jobs's black turtleneck sweaters on the product announcement stage. In this era of collaborative leadership and emphasis on the whole team, it seems old-fashioned to talk of numbers one and two, except for Presidential elections.

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COO Wireless Ryan Chief Operating Officer 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

More than a legal requirement or simple list of fancy names adorning letterhead, a strong board of directors can be a source of great ideas, great revenue, and great leadership. Select for love of the product or service. That check or those hours are a proxy for measuring the passion someone has for our product or service.

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White Paper CTO Diversity Constraint 9

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. rapid new product roll-out). The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. Reinventing Corporate IT An HBR Insight Center. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs). IT management'

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Rajesh Setty

AUGUST 15, 2008

Here you’ll find more than 1500 articles and mini-sagas on entrepreneurship, leadership, creativity and simply how to distinguish yourself. This game is developed by Pramati Technologies , the leading product development company, based in Hyderabad. Here’s what I found out from Pramati’s Co-founder & CTO Vijay Prasanna Pullur.

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Licensing CTO Participative Newsletter 28

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. What most distinguishes innovation leadership, the book argues, is recognition that innovation is a “team sport,” not the act of a sole inventor. As Harvard Business School Professor Linda A.

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Education Innovation Execution Content 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.” In other words, they need to use less stuff.

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Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Much as I want to believe that a glaringly good idea will stand on its merits, I have come to realize that just like any product or service, ideas require good marketing if they’re going to reach their intended customers. Celine Schillinger sought to change the leadership landscape of Sanofi, a major pharmaceutical company.

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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. In the old days (the 1980s and 1990s), the IT organization was all about managing the technology itself: choosing which vendor''s product to buy, then cobbling the products together.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Look for ways to stretch the boundaries of current innovation efforts, but remember you are not the CEO or CTO. Companies tend to define their world based on the categories in which they compete or the products they offer. Some of these might be very specific initiatives, like identifying product-market fit for a new technology.

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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. Only after a lot of stakeholder management and leadership intervention did the pilot get back on track.

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Technology Talent Management Process Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

"It''s never foolish to begin preparing for a transition no matter how many years away it is or where you are in your career," says Muriel Maignan Wilkins, coauthor of Own the Room: Discover Your Signature Voice to Master Your Leadership Presence. Seize leadership opportunities, no matter how small. Look for the white space.

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CTO Case Study Career Project 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

“When you’re a technical expert, you know your value to the organization,” says Wanda Wallace, President and CEO of Leadership Forum and author of Reaching the Top. “I learned how to gauge the quality of the work product even if I can’t do the work myself,” she says.

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Management How To CTO Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Leadership risk: Psychology has found that "for most people, the fear of losing $100 is more intense than the hope of gaining $150", and IT leaders are no exception. IT creates risk confusing leadership, governance, and managing. IT often fails to step up to its leadership role, identifying instead with "aligned with the business."

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Dunning Project CTO Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Companies that are more data-driven are five percent more productive and six percent more profitable than other companies. An effective decision governance framework makes clear how the CIO and CMO, and other members of the leadership team, must work together and support each other. Be clear on decision governance.

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