Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

While many equate strong personal branding only to powerful leadership, there's a lot more that goes into crafting a personal brand statement. Great leaders often align their leadership values with personal beliefs and ethics of their own. I have a documented track record of business development, operational planning, and leadership.

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Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

Despite rapid innovations in data processing and machine learning, many businesses have yet to make the leap from the Industrial Age to the information age, and the gap between technological and organizational progress is widening. Closing this gap requires much more than short-term fixes, like adopting new technologies.

Industry 12

Industry Short-term Planning Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

After a morning innovation workshop at the bucolic R&D campus of a top-tier but tradition-rich technology giant, the lunchtime conversation with the Lab’s leadership turned strategic. How should they better prioritize innovation? These Labs were filled with talented technologists and innovators.

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CFO Innovation CEO Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2018

Hiring a new person is an opportunity to do something differently than before — to innovate. Or perhaps the solution lies in better application of technological tools, rather than additional people. This isn’t leadership. If you really do need to hire someone new, don’t hire a mini-me.

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Learning Curve Management CFO Delegation 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially. Change the dialogue in the senior leadership team to focus on the end-to-end customer experience. Balancing the short-term and long-term is a dynamic leadership challenge. Tom Watson, Jr.

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Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2013

The appointment of Mary Barra as CEO-to-be of General Motors is a signal to car-lovers everywhere that the company is serious about its products and vehicle innovation. The centrality of innovation to the future — electric cars, hybrids, self-driving cars, and beyond — makes her experience pivotal. Start early, and go far.

Engineering 11

Engineering CFO Industry Bureaucracy 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

We have reviewed hundreds of corporate announcements and websites, interviewed numerous leadership experts, and conducted an analysis of CEO changes and successions over the past five years at S&P 500 and Global 100 companies. Through this effort, we have observed certain characteristics of this emerging trend.

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CEO Contingency Plans Telecommunications Planning 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

It is time to connect these groups, elevate analytics to a strategic corporate practice, and assign executive leadership to oversee it. The CAO should be under an executive that naturally spans all of the business units that have analytical needs, such as the Chief Strategy Officer, the CFO, and the COO.

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Company COO Information Technology CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

This is about more than technology. Ironically, this allows them to actually gain stature as the “innovators” are discredited and C-suite power shifts back to how it was. As one financial services CFO told us, “Our mental models were so rigid that even how we thought about data itself needed to be challenged.

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CEO Competitive Advantage ROI CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

The same investment logic holds for Apple's innovation ecosystem; the flow and fortune of its third-party apps development alone would yield valuable insight. But those are exactly the kinds of values conversations (privacy, exclusivity, fairness, and intellectual property) innovative organizations need to have.

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Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

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.” Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

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Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Next, the 10-member senior leadership team used a variety of means, such as town halls, and videos of executives explaining the plan, to clearly and repeatedly communicate the urgent need for cost reduction as a requirement for process redesign across the system that would ultimately improve patient care.

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Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

As I explain in my book, The Hidden Wealth of Customers , HDS marketing executives Brian Householder and Asim Zaheer took, in effect, the Founding Fathers' approach to assert leadership in the conversation. HDS put Hu Yoshida , its highly-respected chief technology officer, in the limelight to attract high-level audiences.

How To 12

How To Chief Technology Officer Audience Banking 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

The innovative system promised to reduce local governments’ energy consumption and maintenance costs and improve their constituent relationships. Some localities had bought lights but failed to fully utilize the accompanying technology, which meant they couldn’t service them properly or achieve the hoped-for energy savings.

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Case Study Business Model CFO Software 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

These fears aren’t unfounded: managers across industries have cost targets and technology enables lower-value tasks to move from people to machines. But we believe an obsession mainly on technology’s potential for cost-cutting is misguided. Any CFO will look at multiple ways to reinvest financial capital.

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Efficiency CFO Technology Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2013

CIOs are being tasked with managing internal business systems, cloud-based services, big data innovation, data security, and the 24x7 needs of global customers who access company data on personal devices. Chief "Innovation" Officer: Looking for disruptive technologies to drive innovation. focus and vision.

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CIO CFO Chief Information Officer Business Intelligence 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2017

Sponsored by DXC Technology. In my experience, legacy managements too frequently misunderstand recommenders’ role in driving innovation and cultural change. But, to the C-suite’s great credit, leadership insisted that everyone cooperate. There’s no shortage of real-world recommenders to emulate and innovate on.

Engineering 8

Engineering Company White Paper Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

As work itself is changing, some of the basic tenets of leadership development are being challenged. The very idea of leading people in jobs is changing with the democratization of work and the continued advance of digital technology. Digital technology is increasing the complexity and options associated with this plurality of work.

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