Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2013

These three change accelerators are what lie behind today''s avalanche of business transformation, and they are directly affecting the roles of CIO and CTO. And, just as the CIO''s role needs to change, so too does the CTO''s—from Chief Technology Officer to Chief Transformation Officer.

CTO 8

CTO CIO Chief Technology Officer Chief Information Officer 8

Skip Prichard

APRIL 12, 2021

The definition that I operate from is that leadership is any means by which two or more people develop the ability to cooperate and take collective action. Typically, this behavior doesn’t produce optimal results, and the leader needs to find a way to manage that inner state differently, so that they create a different leadership presence.

Self-aware 135

Self-aware Leadership Team Open-book 135

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. How to make your company more nimble and responsive.

Agility 8

Agility Development Organization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

Advise the manager to give them some feedback. But for flat or self-managed teams, that’s not an option. Self-managed teams must identify different ways to find and address day-to-day conflicts. Self-managed teams can focus on three things to help them successfully resolve conflicts. COMMUNICATION Book. Add to Cart.

Team 10

Team Management CTO Open-book 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2017

Lines like this are still used all too frequently when employees tell their managers that they want to move in a new direction. Managers are under tremendous pressure to generate results. I hear these challenges all the time as I work with managers at all levels, particularly in large corporations. Sales isn’t what you do.

CTO 8

CTO Goal How To Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Core Competencies. Running design sprints.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

Over 200 publicly listed American companies have R&D budgets that exceed $100 million annually. Which companies allocate the highest proportion of that budget to engineering in China and India, specifically? The count of R&D personnel for each company was obtained by queries on LinkedIn. In fact, costs go up initially.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring CTO Company Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

Wanting something that encouraged more-frequent conversations between associates and partners, the senior lawyer read about what companies like Adobe were doing, and then asked his firm to help him create a new approach. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Insight Center. Adopting AI.

Technology 11

Technology Talent Management Process Management 11

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. One retail CTO summed it up well at a recent SAS event when he said, “We don’t want to just struggle through and be hanging by our fingertips when the economy recovers. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

Real Estate 66

Real Estate Magazine Rogers Long-term 66

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

ERP systems, RFID , knowledge management, business intelligence) have washed over organizations. This trend toward ever more critical reliance on IT is not only transforming the idea and practice of corporate IT, but has disruptive operational implications for every manager. Similar waves of innovative applications of technology (e.g.,

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

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.

Management 8

Management How To CTO Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Big data has the potential to revolutionize management. Simply put, because of big data, managers can measure, and hence know, radically more about their businesses, and directly translate that knowledge into improved decision making and performance. Of course, companies such as Google and Amazon are already doing this.

Management 8

Management Airlines Supply Chain CTO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

The best CEOs are excellent at growing and running a company within a known business model. Sure, there are exceptions who are both visionary CEOs and innovators — Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos, for example — but there are very few companies that can stomach that sort of leadership. Build the future for the company.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur CTO Business Model CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

For all the emphasis placed on customer relationships these days, very few large organizations really understand how to manage them. This isn’t the fault of the technology or the CTO, who usually manages it. Because it involves software, many companies make it the CTO’s responsibility. Insight Center.

CRM 8

CRM Execution CTO Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

In some big companies, the CEO takes on all the top titles — chairman, president, and CEO — and scatters authority over an array of divisional and functional heads or appoints a trio of vice chairmen. That's often the case with founder-led companies in which the founder wants a team in which no one can emerge as a rival.

COO 16

COO Wireless Ryan Chief Operating Officer 16

Strategy Driven

MARCH 24, 2021

To create more capable software, developers relied heavily on high levels of sequential programming languages and software abstraction — reusing component software and libraries for common tasks. Karu Sankaralingam, PhD, is founder/CEO/CTO of Madison, WI-based SimpleMachines, Inc. Understanding the “memory wall”. About the Author.

Software 101

Software CTO Travel Library 101

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2011

I've seen fascinating developments inside both big companies and emerging startups. The first meeting took place inside a large company based in Asia. That meeting's goal was to help accelerate the company's innovation efforts. Then the middle managers left, and the gloves came off. Then the top brass left.

CTO 13

CTO Audience Consensus Innovation 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

(Note that the high-profile C-suite executives at firms like Borders, Jessops, and Bank of New England had large IT budgets, but no longer have a company to make more efficient today.). As many companies move from exclusively internal focused R&D to distributed-innovation systems (e.g., Participating in Strategy Formulation.

Enterprise Architecture 8

Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2011

The news had just hit that Danny Lewin — the co-founder of Akamai Technologies, its charismatic CTO, a former commando in the Israeli Special Forces, and MIT mathematics genius who led the company from a math class to an IPO and a market cap of $30 billion — had suddenly died. For all of us, Danny was our CTO and visionary.

CTO 10

CTO Lewin IPO Mentor 10

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. But the starting point is to understand your company's current dominant logic. What is your company's score?

Chief Technology Officer 13

Chief Technology Officer CTO Constraint Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

” These information-focused leaders emerged as the world changed and the capabilities that companies needed shifted over time. The issues in each of these buckets require new leadership, or at least a rethinking of it in the highest ranks of companies, and deep operational changes. But companies will need new positions as well.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Celine Schillinger sought to change the leadership landscape of Sanofi, a major pharmaceutical company. She loved her job, and with a background in public affairs in communications had been successful in both international business and management roles. So she wrote a memo to the CEO explaining why gender balance is good for business.

Innovation 11

Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

As Sheila Jordan, CIO at Symantec and director at FactSet, put it, “All companies are technology companies today. Based on our experience in recruiting CIO directors for Fortune 100 companies, here are a few guiding principles. Technology is a lever to run the business, but also to change and grow.”

CIO 9

CIO Committee Technology P&L 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

In 1998, the company launched its website, making Sephora an early player in e-commerce. The original creation of Sephora.com was largely outsourced, and we didn’t have an internal digital development team when I joined. Digital is often one of the many silos within a company. How have you addressed this since joining Sephora?

Brand 11

Brand CTO Marketing Retail 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2013

I have seen many large companies accelerate the development of new analytics through the use of a discovery environment. The systems in place at large companies today can easily handle the updated model as many Fortune 500 companies have proven. The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. IT management'

Organization 8

Organization CTO CIO Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Digital leaders, those companies that have managed their digital transformations successfully, all show common characteristics in the way they have shaped their IT to work differently with the business. Company and unit leaders need to ensure that IT is in a leading position on all key digital projects.

CIO 8

CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

With Frederick''s Taylor invention of scientific management in the 1880s, and its subsequent assimilation into what we now consider modern management, organizations have used logic and rationality to the eliminate waste, to seek efficiency, and to transfer human knowledge to tools and processes. IT management'

CTO 8

CTO Franchising CIO Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

Imagine what it might be like inside the company right now. What is it really like to work at a company when it "goes public?" What is it really like to work at a company when it "goes public?" How will he hold them together to make the company what it can be next? So what actually happens inside a company on IPO day?

IPO 12

IPO Lewin CTO Conference 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

For a time, having a BlackBerry was the ultimate status symbol in business, as well as the ultimate addiction: One former global account manager recalls a CTO referring to the blinking red light as "digital heroin." He’s not going to last,''" recalls former senior business development manager Vincent Washington. "I

CTO 8

CTO Apparel Ryan Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

A global telecoms company recently decided to do what many companies are doing: figure out how to turn big data into big profits. They put together a preliminary budget and an RFP that asked vendors to take the data the company had — customer call and payments behavior, online searches, social network activity, billing, etc.

CIO 8

CIO Budgeting Enterprise Architecture Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

Not only does the planning help you develop the necessary skills and leadership presence, it also increases your chances of getting the promotion because people will already recognize you as a leader. Find out what keeps your manager up at night and propose solutions to those problems. Don''t be a jerk.

CTO 10

CTO Case Study Career Project 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This seems to be a key question on the minds of not just marketers, but company strategists these days. We have shifted from a competitive landscape in which companies are more exclusively focused on external forces affecting their industries and sectors, to one that has become significantly more customer-centric.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

In other words, how do you manage up to someone who’s just jumped a level above you and who might’ve been a friend? In some ways, you’ll have to treat your new boss like you would a manager you’ve never met before , says Michael Watkins, author of The First 90 Days. Does your relationship need to change?

CTO 8

CTO Case Study Learning Curve Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Measurement risk: Fail to measure the real goal of innovation, focus on project progress rather than value created and turning management measures into goals instigating aberrant behavior. IT creates risk confusing leadership, governance, and managing. inaction disguised as patience and impatience also contribute to opportunity risk.

Dunning 8

Dunning Project CTO Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

The companies that best understand how they interact with customers are mostly pure-play digital commerce companies. To accomplish this, OTT demands that brands reconfigure their relationships with media companies, agencies, and third-party data platforms. Brand marketers must demand change from their own media-buying ecosystem.

Brand 8

Brand Disintermediation Media Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

This is what we deal with every day in the book-publishing company I founded. So we developed a simple process to help people clarify their intentions and their positioning. Bad Writing Is Destroying Your Company’s Productivity. That’s because they see their writing, on some level, as a piece of themselves.

Audience 8

Audience Chief Technology Officer Open-book CTO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

If you’d like your comment to be considered for publication, please be sure to include your full name, company or university affiliation, and email address. But not ever as fast as the manager wants!” ” “Where is the manager?” The manager says I’m the only one she trusts with the toilets.”

Case Study 8

Case Study Airlines COO CFO 8