Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Your energy and track record of successfully launching high-impact initiatives scored you a plum role heading up innovation. Expectations are high, but some skeptics in the organization feel that innovation is an overhyped buzzword that doesn’t justify being a separate function. Congratulations!

Innovation 8

Innovation Planning Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

The best CEOs are excellent at growing and running a company within a known business model. What they don’t do well enough is reinvent and innovate. So if the CEO isn’t someone who can innovate, then who should? This is not a CTO role or a role that reports to the CEO. Where do you look?

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur CTO Business Model CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2013

As mentioned above, this measure works very well for comparing projects that deliver hard benefits, but undermine the ability to invest in critical capabilities that have a long-term payoff horizon or highly innovative capabilities where the payoff is uncertain. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs). The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer.

Innovation 8

Innovation CIO ROI CTO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

McManus’s reframing of leadership — the leader as the sidekick, the intern as the superhero — embodies three powerful principles that enable innovation and discovery. To recognize how innovative this approach is, just imagine telling your intern or most junior employee that come Monday, you are their intern.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain NGO CTO Learning-by-Doing 14

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2019

” With over 80% of CEOs saying they have a talent gap issue, how did we get to this pint, and how would you suggest fixing it?” Recently, African business leaders have focused on innovation in the workplace and the imperative to nurture and grow talent on the continent. Johannesburg, South Africa. The Netherlands.

Globalization 276

Globalization Leadership Conference Diversity 276

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. So innovation and learning will move from rich countries to poor countries. The lesson is clear.

Chief Technology Officer 13

Chief Technology Officer CTO Constraint Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

While Agile began as a product development innovation, it sparked a corporate strategy and process revolution. When new CTO Prakash Khot arrived from Salesforce, he shifted the company towards continuous delivery, testing changes more frequently and on smaller audiences.

Agility 8

Agility Development Organization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

As many companies move from exclusively internal focused R&D to distributed-innovation systems (e.g., A new component of the IT function must be developed to support this category of work: the Distributed Innovation Group (DIG). online idea markets), the center of expertise for innovation support, and analysis across the enterprise.

Enterprise Architecture 8

Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

And because organizational change tends to be driven by those who most acutely feel the pain, it’s often line managers who are the strongest champions for “talent tech”: innovations in how firms hire people, staff projects, evaluate performance, and develop talent. Talent tech raises urgency for further talent innovation.

Technology 11

Technology Talent Management Process Management 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

If you had zilch , you'd have to be more innovative, more passionate, and more creative. And if board members had more contact with employees beyond the CEO, those board members would have a more complete understanding of the company's strengths and weaknesses. You'd have to make the most of what you do have.

White Paper 10

White Paper CTO Diversity Constraint 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

—Andy O''Connell Justin Bieber's Involved, of Course The Rise and Fall of BlackBerry: An Oral History Businessweek For years, every CEO had a BlackBerry. While we''re all familiar with the decline of Research in Motion, this oral history contains first-hand accounts of RIM''s glory days of innovation, followed by inglorious missteps.

CTO 8

CTO Apparel Ryan Proposal 8

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

DECEMBER 13, 2017

” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” The CEO wants one thing, the engineering team another, and customers have their own opinions about feature priorities. Self-management: Being a PM can be incredibly stressful.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

Similar waves of innovative applications of technology (e.g., My friend Craig Bickel , Principal at IT strategy consultancy WGroup told me that: "While functional responsibilities will remain specialized, innovation, implementation, and value realization must be shared between the business and IT." IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs).

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

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.” A connected world is a transparent world.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 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

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Four years ago, Craig Hatkoff, co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, approached me about a brainstorm: an event recognizing and celebrating breakthrough innovators. When I suggested to Clayton Christensen that we partner with Hatkoff to create the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards , Clay’s response was : I trust you Whitney.

Innovation 11

Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 11

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

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 20, 2013

As a result, in recent years, innovative ideas have been stifled and entire industries have fallen into the death spiral of cost/price cutting commoditization. Instead of risk = bad, leaders need to understand that today, calculated risk = innovation, meeting marketplace demands, leapfrogging competition and creating true profit.

Dunning 8

Dunning Project CTO Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

Sephora has always been an innovative global business, doing things a little differently, which is what drew me to the brand. When you arrived, what did you see as the opportunities and priorities for increasing digital innovation? CMOs and CEOs Can Work Better Together. The New Marketing Organization. An HBR Insight Center.

Brand 11

Brand CTO Marketing Retail 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2013

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 Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs). The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. While it is a model that many organizations have yet to embrace, make sure that yours makes the shift.

Organization 8

Organization CTO CIO Analysis 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 Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs). The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. Reinventing Corporate IT An HBR Insight Center.

CTO 8

CTO Franchising CIO Short-term 8