CEO Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2011

She hired a Chief Creative Officer to vision where the company should go. The Chief Technology Officer has mission to get the word out. They have even launched products solely through social media. Of course they have done this through social media.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 5, 2021

Richard Harbridge, chief technology officer at 2toLead says, “At its best, passion is rewarding and can make us more important and enthusiastic about our work.” There is pleasure in working in a place where your passion coincides with the work product. Being passionate about your work does not necessarily bring happiness.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

How does responsive design make products more valuable to their customers? Tarafdar is Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of the Strategic Technology Group at Infosys. Thank you to the book’s publisher for sending me an advance copy of the book.

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HR Digest

MARCH 7, 2024

He had been offered a position as a Chief Technology Officer in 2022 and participated in investor meetings to raise capital for this organization. Many tools, products, and processes at your company could be registered under your IP rights in advance.

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CEO Insider

APRIL 23, 2024

Discipline. Intelligence. Work ethic. Creativity. These are the attributes that most people associate with success. And they’re all important. But a person can display all these traits and still not reach the highest levels of achievement.

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CEO Insider

APRIL 8, 2021

The largest Gallup survey of employee engagement showed that 87 percent of staff are not engaged, which, needless to say, is a huge drain on productivity. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. The number one reason staff gave? […].

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CEO Insider

APRIL 19, 2024

Scheduled to meet with Lawrence Wong, Singapore’s incoming Prime Minister, and his predecessor, Lee Hsien Loong, Cook’s visit to Singapore marks the finale of an extensive tour across the region.

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CEO Insider

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The Middle Eastern legal sector, amidst transformative economic diversification, is witnessing a pivotal evolution. A region that was once primarily fueled by its energy sector is now a crucible for various emergent industries, reshaping the legal profession within its evolving economies.

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CEO Insider

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

“The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness.” ― John C. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

HBR recently spoke with three experts — Bruce Brown, Chief Technology Officer of P&G, and HBR authors Scott Anthony and Erich Joachimsthaler — about the opportunities that are out there, and how understanding consumer context can help companies develop products at the right price points for every market.

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Management Craft

APRIL 18, 2014

A bunch of fabulous people reviewed the pre-production version of the book and offered their endorsements. Dwayne Melancon, Chief Technology Officer, Tripwire, Inc. The book features a model that I have been using with leaders and groups for several years. You want a powerful team? You want to be a great leader?

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Management Craft

APRIL 18, 2014

A bunch of fabulous people reviewed the pre-production version of the book and offered their endorsements. Dwayne Melancon, Chief Technology Officer, Tripwire, Inc. The book features a model that I have been using with leaders and groups for several years. You want a powerful team? You want to be a great leader?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

While speaking a few months ago to the Chief Technology Officer of a highly diversified Fortune 500 manufacturer, I asked if he was able to fill all the science and engineering jobs required at his growing company. If we are separating the R&D function from production, this essential link is severed. About 15.7%

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

By Paul Clarke, Chief Technology Officer, Ocado. One example of this is the Pareto distribution of the 50,000 different products we sell and how it changes based on the weather, seasonality, promotions, and other external factors. Industry 4.0

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 17, 2011

Imagine you are a product manager at Proctor and Gamble or Unilever and are charged with designing a new line of detergents or packaged food. You cannot presume that packaging is simply a matter of clever design that helps your products fly off the shelves of a super market. Sustainability is part of every professional’s job.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2017

By Paul Clarke, Chief Technology Officer, Ocado. One of the more popular business mantras to hit town recently has been: “Forget products, think platform!” So among this melee of platforms, why might there be room for one more — a platform for online grocery delivery?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

“We need to get rid of the static production lines where only one car and one configuration can be built,” he says, adding that the automotive industry in Germany can already support over one million configurations of a car model — as opposed to U.S., Self-Repairing Processes Solve Their Own Problems.

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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. Hardly an encouraging finding.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

We have a unique perch from which to observe how well organizations are “tuned” to create a productive and positive work environment for freelancers and other agile talent. We suggest a number of possible approaches for organization leaders to consider: Assign a roving chief technology officer or project manager.

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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

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. Game-changing product and service innovations can be more easily identified when transformation is a business imperative.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2011

In our fast-paced, productivity-focused lives and workplaces, we are losing our gardens — literally and figuratively. 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.

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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

Sales of our existing products and services will increase as emerging economies grow and consumer incomes rise. The best approach to emerging markets is to export stripped-down versions of existing products and services, and sell them at lower prices. We should be able to meet their needs with cheap products based on older technology.

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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. As a marketing ploy the move clearly failed. Eyeballs Instead of Experiences.

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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

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

A CRM or other systems for maintaining day-to-day information on all the company’s customers, major contracts, investors, products, technologies, sales, and marketing activities are essential, practical ways of sharing information. Minimize the handover period.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

Buy new businesses for the people, not the products. Facebook has bought a slew of startups , snagging their top talent but usually killing off their products. Facebook's chief technology officer, Bret Taylor, was a co-founder of FriendFeed, one of those acquisitions. Just ask young Mr. Zuckerberg about that.

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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. ” Lezon, along with Alex and Ani’s head of merchandising and head of sales operations, used the data to inform product placement. .

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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. Countless studies confirm what I’ve experienced firsthand: Remote employees are happier , more productive , and more cost-efficient than their office-bound peers.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

The 70-year-old will stay on as the software giant’s executive chairman and also its chief technology officer — the latter title a formalization of a role he was already playing. After 37 years in charge, Larry Ellison finally stepped down as Oracle’s CEO on Thursday. Except that he’s not really stepping down.

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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. It’s a little easier in profit-motivated situations to understand whether you’re delivering on your vision or not, because your vision of your product or service should be easily measurable by profits.

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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. Ironically, autonomy in corporate computing does not necessarily lead to greater productivity. Information governance is not IT''s job.

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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. Bad Writing Is Destroying Your Company’s Productivity. Most people understand this already, at least intellectually. You and Your Team Series.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

That's because you and your company have two things no blogger or academic can match: You have (1) customers who are, presumably, achieving noteworthy success with the help of your product or service, and (2) internal experts who have deep subject matter knowledge and work every day, in the trenches, with those customers.

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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. . How do you get to know them without seeming like a kiss-up?

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

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. We will use this co-creation to develop future programs and facilitated work sessions.

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