Management Craft

APRIL 18, 2014

Johna Campbell, Senior Manager of HR, Kollmorgen. “If Phil Gerbyshak , author, speaker and VP of Sales and Marketing for Advisology. Kathleen Goodman, Director, Strategy, Planning and Management at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Dwayne Melancon, Chief Technology Officer, Tripwire, Inc. Outstanding!

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

The Obama campaign's techniques, tools and technologies deserve detailed and dedicated attention from every organization that takes data-driven decisions seriously. There's not a brand manager, health care administrator, CMO or CIO who wouldn't benefit big-time from benchmarking their own operations to this campaign's.

Marketing 8

Marketing Chief Technology Officer Case Study Critical Success Factor 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

A smart founder understands that there is often a trade-off between creating sustainable market value and preserving control. The following steps can be used to successfully manage the transition to new leadership: Determine the strategy for the startup and identify CEO candidates’ experience executing a similar strategy.

CEO 8

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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. Talk to your manager about the attributes you bring to your role.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Western multinationals — especially the most successful ones — consistently struggle to achieve their growth targets in emerging markets. Because they try to repeat their past success formulas — the ones that work so well for them in developed markets. It is impossible to earn healthy profits in emerging markets.

Chief Technology Officer 13

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 17, 2011

The journey of the four decades, of growing from an entry-level professional to a leader among fellow professionals invariably calls for mastery over four things: the ability to efficiently manage resources, volume, complexity and finally, rainmaking. The days of the hippie tree huggers are over. But rainmaking is a lot more than just that.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

In business, winning is often a matter of speed — to new markets with new offerings — rather than slow, steady plodding. Bolstered by this active involvement of top management, the success rate for meeting strategic objectives was a much more robust 68%, close to double that of the hands-off group. The bad news?

Innovation 8

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

While business markets are obviously different from societies in many ways, they share more things in common, especially in today's networked world. Both launched media and customer firestorms; both shook top management to its core. It's what I call the Blanche Dubois approach to marketing: it "depends on the kindness of strangers."

How To 12

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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." The pace of change in today's markets is relentless. It even goes so far as to ask business leaders to think about what could make their business obsolete.

Innovation 14

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2013

Losing that kind of information can mean a plunge in stock price and market share. But when I put the question to top management, well, they''re busy — not their problem, that''s for sure — and they refer me to the chief information officer or the chief technology officer.

Company 8

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

As a marketing ploy the move clearly failed. Instead of debuting a new, tech-savvy firm that would, in the words of chief digital officer Anne Vasquez, be like “having a tech startup culture meet a legacy corporate culture,” it came off as buzzword-laden and naive. Managing for Metrics Rather than Mission.

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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. That calls for a surplus of trained and qualified managers beyond those needed to run the business today.

Chief Technology Officer 13

Chief Technology Officer Maturity Engineering Document 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2013

In a recent article , I suggested that the role of the CIO needs to shift from Chief Information Officer to a Chief Innovation Officer, due to the massive, rapid, multiple technology-driven transformations that are occurring today. IT on Steroids: The Benefits (and Risks) of Accelerating Technology.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

“Retailers are all using scanner data to track what happened at the point of sale ,” says Sam Hui, an associate professor of marketing at NYU’s Stern School of Business. The redder the location, the more frequently it was trafficked: For chief technology officer Joe Lezon, the results were both helpful and surprising.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Sales and marketing were once disciplines ruled by emotions. 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.

Innovation 8

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Ellison will remain chairman of the board and will still serve as chief technology officer. While research has found that the market seems to like the co-CEO arrangement, there isn’t a clear-cut answer on its effectiveness. In his place, Oracle presidents Mark Hurd and Safra Catz will share the CEO role.

CEO 8

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

The company, founded in 1996 by an engineer from Xerox’s legendary Palo Alto Research Center , Pradeep Sindhu (who remains its chief technology officer and vice chairman), was one of the highest flyers of the fin de siècle tech stock boom. It turned out to be a lower-than-anticipated sky.

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