HR Digest

MARCH 7, 2024

The Chinese national was accused of stealing data related to Google’s AI trade secrets to share with two PRC-Based technology companies and the Justice Department saw this as a blatant theft of advanced technologies and a direct threat to national security. Do not dismiss it as too small to be stolen.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The ongoing federal investigation of three Equifax C-suite managers for insider trading arose due to alleged stock dumping prior to the revelation of the company’s catastrophic cyber-attack. Andrew Douthwaite has over 17 years of technology experience joining VirtualArmour in 2007 as a senior engineer. About the Author.

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CEO Insider

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Maxwell In the Harvard Business Review article How CEOs Manage Time, the authors report CEOs spend a quarter of their work on people and relationships, another quarter on functional and business unit reviews, 16% on organization and culture, and 21% on strategy. “The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness.” ― John C.

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CEO Insider

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

“The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic” – so said management guru Peter Drucker, in a truism that speaks volumes in a post-Covid age. The US labor market stands at a crossroads right now, with new and volatile crosswinds – including surging job openings, […].

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Additional content will be shared on Team Development and Management. Chief-Technology-Officer CTO, and Human Resources Business Partners within the IT Team and Mike will serve as the Accountability-Team to check-in and coach the directors for completion of the 100 day action plans.

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CEO Insider

JANUARY 26, 2022

Managers of teams often do not inspire their teams to ask for referrals or guide them […]. Asking for Referrals is often a completely underutilized strategy as part of business development for an organization. If the referral strategy is incorporated, it is often done well by only a few individuals but never across the whole business.

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CEO Insider

JUNE 9, 2021

We have used the word when leading and managing “change” for decades. As you read the title of this article, I know this may feel somewhat counter intuitive. When instigating a project we expect things to develop from one place to another or introducing something new to a system or process and maybe to take […].

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Management Craft

APRIL 18, 2014

Johna Campbell, Senior Manager of HR, Kollmorgen. “If Kathleen Goodman, Director, Strategy, Planning and Management at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Dwayne Melancon, Chief Technology Officer, Tripwire, Inc. Books Management' I already found three things I''m planning to try at work on Monday!”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The other one of us cofounded 10x Management , a well-respected talent agency representing top-tier freelance programmers, designers, and other technology professionals. Others are new to managing or stronger technically than as a supervisor. One approach that 10X has recommended is creating a roving CTO or project managers.

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CEO Insider

AUGUST 21, 2022

Workflow bottlenecks can negatively impact everything from employee satisfaction to the bottom line. Avoiding the snowball effect that comes with logjams means creating more efficient workflows that keep the organization moving in the right direction. These three strategies can help keep your operations on time and budget.

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Management Craft

APRIL 18, 2014

Johna Campbell, Senior Manager of HR, Kollmorgen. “If Kathleen Goodman, Director, Strategy, Planning and Management at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Dwayne Melancon, Chief Technology Officer, Tripwire, Inc. If you want to transform your teams and get them to perform better, you need to know the secret.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2011

In an effort to increase the panel's interactivity, I wanted to offer readers a chance to ask Brown questions.

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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

JUNE 23, 2016

While technology can certainly improve operational performance, the idea that it can replace a sound strategy is a dangerous delusion. Tronc investor Patrick Soon-Shiong also asserts that the technology will allow the company to make thousands of videos a day. Managing for Metrics Rather than Mission. The Downside of Data.

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CEO Insider

APRIL 20, 2022

Despite the pandemic, executive recruiters face one of the strongest candidate markets in the past twenty years. You have more negotiating power than ever for executive compensation. When it comes to executive equity compensation, do you know that there are differences between employee equity from a corporation and an LLC?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

Vandebroek, now the chief technology officer at Xerox, was a 34-year-old rising executive in 1996 when her husband, also a tech executive, died during a family camp out in the Adirondacks, leaving Vandebroek with three children, ages 8, 5, and 3. And I’ve always tried to exceed my manager’s expectations.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

In particular, large companies want to partner with small firms that have developed advanced, game-changing technologies. 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?

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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

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

AUGUST 14, 2012

In contrast, another software entrepreneur found that a poor choice of a chief technology officer, who was assumed by others to be the unannounced number two, prevented his small startup from being acquired by a Silicon Valley giant, because the potential acquirer found the CTO incapable of backing up the CEO as the company grew.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2013

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. This is a management failure, not a technological problem. Why Your CEO Is a Security Risk.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

It''s time for CIOs to move beyond their roles as chief technology officers, and embrace the name with all of its implications: Chief Information Officer. Because no one is managing the store. The explosive growth of information is accelerating. That''s a lot of money for digging through old e-mail.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

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. As the company grows, its management skills need to evolve. Break away from the past. Insight Center. Sponsored by Northern Trust.

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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. Sustainability is part of every professional’s job.

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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. The paper, published this month in the Strategic Management Journal, looked at 71 public companies in the U.S. Larry Ellison announced yesterday that he was stepping down as CEO of Oracle, the company he co-founded in 1977.

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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

MARCH 26, 2012

Rich countries are the most technologically advanced. We should be able to meet their needs with cheap products based on older technology. We excel in product leadership and advanced technology — values inconsistent with the ultra-low-cost products poor countries require.

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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. They're right.

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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. Finance Tech industry Technology' Maybe it’s both.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

The redder the location, the more frequently it was trafficked: For chief technology officer Joe Lezon, the results were both helpful and surprising. Decision making Retail Technology' “That’s the really big thing: Identifying what a volume of people do over a period of time, and how you read that information.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2017

Godbout was executive director at 18F before departing to become chief technology officer for the EPA. Godbout: I have yet to see the case study of massive change management of innovation where a group of people came in and, like a whirlwind, changed everyone’s thoughts and executed the whole thing themselves.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

With guidance from Paul English, chief technology officer of Kayak, we borrowed a common tool from business — professional virtual communities (PVCs) — and adapted it to leverage the wisdom of the crowds. Health Information & technology Internet Knowledge management' The Launch. How could members establish trust?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2011

I had lunch recently with Rajip, the Chief Technology Officer of a large investment bank. When we returned to his office after spending an hour together, he had received 138 new email messages. In our fast-paced, productivity-focused lives and workplaces, we are losing our gardens — literally and figuratively.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2012

Or think of Nathan Myhrvold, the former Chief Technology Officer for Microsoft, who said (and then confirmed to me in person for this article), "The top software developers are more productive than average software developers not by a factor of 10x or 100x or even 1,000x, but by 10,000x."

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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." P&G has substantial room to create growth by bringing the core elements of its business model to new product categories.

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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. So when Roshan advertised that it was hiring, ten thousand people responded, but few had even the most rudimentary qualifications.

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