Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

And this is precisely the problem that many companies are having in their efforts to collaborate with partners, share resources and knowledge, and create new products and services. In particular, large companies want to partner with small firms that have developed advanced, game-changing technologies. The bad news?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

When demands arise in an industrial environment, managers and engineers must interrupt the automation to update the processes that make the machines go. Some organizations are already deploying elements of process change automation, while others are developing technologies that lay the foundation for it.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

The best managers hire smart people to work for them. How do you manage people who have more experience or more knowledge? It’s natural to feel worried or insecure about your ability to manage someone who has superior experience or knowhow. But what if your direct reports are smarter than you? What the Experts Say.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2017

But somewhere along the way, we recognized that they were based on definable pipelines and applied technology to manage those pipelines. Today you can put a corporate dashboard in place to manage them and tweak the settings to try to boost your results. million employees that have used an idea management system called Spigit.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2011

As I meandered along the winding paths, my mind began to wander too, making connections, drawing insights, and developing ideas. In our fast-paced, productivity-focused lives and workplaces, we are losing our gardens — literally and figuratively. It's not that we're unproductive; we're astoundingly productive.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

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." That approach allowed P&G to successfully launch Align , a product that was almost killed due to an initially low forecast. Q: P&G is a product-based company.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Because they try to repeat their past success formulas — the ones that work so well for them in developed markets. However, the company's initial steps to penetrate developing markets were unproductive. Sales of our existing products and services will increase as emerging economies grow and consumer incomes rise.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

Apple continued to run with little discernable change, except that Cook's black open collar shirts substituted for Jobs's black turtleneck sweaters on the product announcement stage. Sheryl Sandberg, who became COO, brought management savvy and government relations experience, both essential to an expanding high-profile company.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

Xerox's transition from copier and printer maker to document management conglomerate owes much to the thinking of cognitive scientist John Seeley Brown, a leading figure at Xerox's famed Palo Alto Research Center. The top shops also excel at developing their leaders. Buy new businesses for the people, not the products.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

I recently participated in a spirited panel discussion with Bruce Brown, Procter & Gamble's Chief Technology Officer, and Erich Joachimsthaler, Vivaldi Partners' managing director and CEO. First, it will take more than introducing compelling products and services to mastering intricate business models.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2013

And, just as the CIO''s role needs to change, so too does the CTO''s—from Chief Technology Officer to Chief Transformation Officer. CTOs must embrace the role of Chief Transformation Officer. This fundamental shift is necessary to elevate the position''s contribution and relevance.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2012

His observation was that you could massively improve the quality of a product by resolving a tiny fraction of the problems. Interestingly, this team member is the most productive member on his team. In The Quality Control Handbook , Juran called it "The Law of the Vital Few." When he was young, he learned to push past his tendency.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

Even most disheartening, however, is that the focus of these efforts seems to be on the production process—meaning the mechanical aspects of publishing text and image online— rather than helping journalists originate, report, and develop stories. Managing for Metrics Rather than Mission.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

Khoja recalls his chief technology officer, Eric Chapman, announcing a week into the search that they were going to have to choose their engineers in a different way. The protoypical Skunk Works was Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Projects (ADP) unit , a group characterized by autonomy, secrecy, and an elite identity.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2016

Many people are stunned to learn that I didn’t meet my chief technology officer in person until 2014 — three years after he started working for me. As the CEO and founder of a remote-based software development company, I’ve learned that remote work creates better employees.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

How should you establish a positive, productive working relationship with your new manager? “Recognize that people do draw some impressions about you pretty quickly,” says Karen Dillon, coauthor of Competing Against Luck and the HBR Guide to Office Politics. . What the Experts Say. ” Dillon agrees.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

Khoja recalls his chief technology officer, Eric Chapman, announcing a week into the search that they were going to have to choose their engineers in a different way. The protoypical Skunk Works was Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Projects (ADP) unit , a group characterized by autonomy, secrecy, and an elite identity.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

They’re sophisticated buyers of products and services, and they use a similar lens to decide whether to read something: They calculate whether it will provide value to them. So we developed a simple process to help people clarify their intentions and their positioning. Bad Writing Is Destroying Your Company’s Productivity.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

By Paul Clarke, Chief Technology Officer, Ocado. They will demand that all their products display this new level of smartness, develop a hunger for applications and services to get ever smarter, and expect them to “play smartly” with one another. Microprocessor (CPU) with human brain. AI for Good.

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