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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020. Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?. and a development manager at Oracle Corp.

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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. Tesla’s genius and education led him to develop the foundations for electric induction motors, wireless telegraphy, radios, neon lamps, and remote control. Innovation Capital. A great idea may not be enough to build a great business.

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I Was a Cyberthreat to My Company. Are You?

Harvard Business Review

As part of that effort, they have developed this tool to help people assess how much of a threat they pose to their own organizations. Information & technology IT management Risk management' Like many people, I felt horribly vulnerable when I read about the Russian hackers who had stolen 1.2

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How to Tell If You Should Trust Your Statistical Models

Harvard Business Review

All too often analysts study historical data to develop a model that explains that data and then apply the model to the exact same data to make a prediction about the future. Using predictive models of demand developed during growth years or for a price sensitive market segment may fail miserably when market conditions change.

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The Comcast-Time Warner Merger Is Not a Sign of Strength

Harvard Business Review

The announcement late last week of Comcast’s $45 billion merger with Time Warner Cable set off a predictable frenzy of hyperventilating by much of the technology media and self-appointed consumer advocacy groups. Cable is just a technology, increasingly one of many, for transmitting information, whether video, voice or data.

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Should Your CIO Be Chief Digital Officer?

Harvard Business Review

By helping business leaders to improve their businesses, the CIO becomes an obvious candidate to fill any open role that involves technology, process, or strong governance. Other companies have multiple employee collaboration platforms with different rules and technologies. But the responsibilities of the CDO will be required.

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On Undo's Undue Importance

Harvard Business Review

Every few years the same piece of technology gets re-announced, and it's as important as ever. In 1986, Lotus Development Corporation announced the latest version of its (at the time) wildly popular 1-2-3 spreadsheet, one that now sported a spiffy new "undo" feature. The feature? It was a big deal. Undo was new again a few years later.