Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2013

These three change accelerators are what lie behind today''s avalanche of business transformation, and they are directly affecting the roles of CIO and CTO. And, just as the CIO''s role needs to change, so too does the CTO''s—from Chief Technology Officer to Chief Transformation Officer.

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CTO CIO Chief Technology Officer Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2017

You’re not cut out for engineering. When I launched my first company in 2008 (CarZen, acquired by Liberty Mutual), one of my first hires was a CTO. I made him the CTO’s protégé, and had the CTO spend time teaching and evaluating him. Or perhaps they want to jump from engineering to sales.

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CTO Goal How To Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Once the freelancer is selected and contracted (no easy task, but that’s a discussion for another article), management is left to the individual project or functional manager. One approach that 10X has recommended is creating a roving CTO or project managers. Some are excellent. Broaden the role of your “chiefs.”

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CTO Agility Management Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Beyond shipping new features on a regular cadence and keeping the peace between engineering and the design team, the best PMs create products with strong user adoption that have exponential revenue growth and perhaps even disrupt an industry. Core Competencies. Self-management: Being a PM can be incredibly stressful.

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Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

Maximize engineering productivity. Engineers love continuous delivery environments because they can immediately see how their work adds value to the organization. When new CTO Prakash Khot arrived from Salesforce, he shifted the company towards continuous delivery, testing changes more frequently and on smaller audiences.

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Agility Development Organization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

In the HBR article, " A Reverse Innovation Playbook " (April 2012) and our forthcoming book, Reverse Innovation , my co-author, Chris Trimble, and I elaborate on how western multinationals can overcome their dominant logic. Paliwal not only thwarted the coup, he supported Lawande's leadership and even made him the new CTO.

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Chief Technology Officer Constraint CTO Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Suddenly the victim is the superhero and the designers and engineers are the sidekick, collaborating together to find the best solutions. He had her sit next to the CEO, and enabled her to wander around and ask questions to everyone, including the CEO and the CTO.

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Supply Chain NGO CTO Learning-by-Doing 14