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How to deal with cyber-attacks: publicly or privately?

Strategy Driven

Sure, a disclosure is immensely beneficial in terms of buttressing industrial safeguards, national and global security, and customer protection – not to mention mitigating the longer-term repercussions of an attack – but so too can disclosure exact lasting damage on a bottom line.

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Answering Your Questions About P&G and Innovation

Harvard Business Review

June's Harvard Business Review features a story by Procter & Gamble Chief Technology Officer Bruce Brown and me on " How P&G Tripled Its Innovation Success Rate." It has been creating new products and brands for decades. It's hard to go from novice to expert overnight in any endeavor.

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The Professional: Seven New Rules

Strategy Driven

Consider the chief technology officer of a company who is able to influence standards by being on an industry body – the revenue impact of such a thing can be immense. Traditionally, a rainmaker has been understood to be a great a salesperson. But rainmaking is a lot more than just that. These individuals are rainmakers.

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Whose Job Is It to Manage Freelancers?

Harvard Business Review

Organizations in every industry and geography are increasingly indebted to external talent, whom we term agile talent , to augment their resources in strategic areas. We suggest a number of possible approaches for organization leaders to consider: Assign a roving chief technology officer or project manager.

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How Technology Is Transforming Retail - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM Ocado

Harvard Business Review

By Paul Clarke, Chief Technology Officer, Ocado. Across the retail landscape, a war is going on, and the battles are being fought on multiple fronts: business models, channels, brands, customers, technologies, and more. The big retailers are getting squeezed and disintermediated at both ends.

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