Lead Change Blog

MAY 1, 2017

Bill Treasurer of Giant Leap Consulting provided 5 Strategies to Address Conflict as a Manager. Everyone knows the roles and responsibilities for a CEO, CFO and CTO but change the wording and a different picture emerges. Miki Saxon of MAPping Company Success contributed Psychological Manipulation: The Popular New Management Tool.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership CTO 264

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.

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Over the past 27 years of my career in marketing, brand management and executive search + coaching, I’ve found time and again that organizations have blind-spots when hiring talent. How do you influence hiring managers to slow down and find unicorns? Only extremely nimble companies may offer on the spot. In the U.S.

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Emotional Intelligence CTO Stress Exit Strategy 75

Six Disciplines

APRIL 27, 2011

Skip Angel, Random Thoughts of a CTO). Therefore, there is also a Six Disciplines company that was established to help companies long-term get established and maintain using this methodology.” ” (Skip Angel, Random Thoughts of a CTO). ” (Gary Whitehair, High Performance Business).

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CTO Books Balanced Scorecard Norton 101

Skip Prichard

MARCH 13, 2020

If we manage the growth of smart automation properly, and plan for it adequately, it can be relatively painless. meaning that they can already perform key business management functions. In an office environment, tasks like sending out invoices, processing payments, and managing payroll can also be automated fairly easily.

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Blanchard Education CTO Technology 102

Strategy Driven

JUNE 8, 2019

Shane Zilinskas is the Founder and CEO of Los Angeles software development agency ClearSummit , and the Co-Founder and CTO of TuneRegistry, a music rights SaaS platform. He also provides consulting services to startups and enterprise companies.

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Software Development CTO Engineering 50

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

And, sadly, the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) reports that 60 percent of small companies are unable to sustain their business more than six months following a cyberattack. Patches are often created after a software or hardware company has experienced a data breach or recognized a vulnerability that might allow one.

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Bottom-up Software Policies CIO 88

Skip Prichard

APRIL 12, 2021

And it gives them the tools to create the kind of environment I just described, where individuals and teams collaborate closely, innovate, and adapt to changing circumstances while staying focused on the mission of the company. He was the CTO of a global manufacturing company. Is that a useful inner state for a leader?

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Self-aware Leadership Team Open-book 135

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.

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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.

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CTO Goal How To Learning-by-Doing 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.

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Offshoring CTO Company Engineering 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.” Self-management: Being a PM can be incredibly stressful. Company Fit.

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Productivity Products Core Competence Management 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.

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Technology Talent Management Process Management 10

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.

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Real Estate Magazine Rogers Long-term 66

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.

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Management Airlines Supply Chain CTO 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. Talk to your manager about the attributes you bring to your role.

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Management How To CTO Mentor 8

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.,

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Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 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.

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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.

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CRM Execution CTO Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

.” Today, leading companies are embracing a new business process methodology. Once again, it has started in the bowels of technology companies and startups. How to make your company more nimble and responsive. And, once again, business leaders would do well to pay close attention to the strategic implications.

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Agility Development Organization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

As promised , I asked Bruce Brown , P&G's CTO, one of the questions readers submitted last week: "As you look forward into the future what do you see as P&G's largest challenges, as seen through your eyes as CTO?" P&G is about an $80 billion company. Brown noted three specific challenges. First, the general challenge of growth.

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Innovation CTO Senge Globalization 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Put another way, a company can’t speed their way through the cultural chasm. At the same time, companies that cross the cultural chasm see a marked rebound in their culture starting in years five and six, although not returning to the “honeymoon” of the startup’s early days. Two distinct sets emerged.

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Morale Attrition Early Adopters Benchmarking 11

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.

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CTO Lewin IPO Mentor 9

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.

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Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2013

Some of the key challenges: Companies don''t identify the very best ideas for investment because most capital allocation processes start with business partners'' existing ideas about projects to fund. Companies tend to spread their capital allocation bets too thinly across business groups or functions, often for political reasons.

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Innovation CIO ROI CTO 8

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.”

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CIO Committee Technology P&L 9

Strategy Driven

MARCH 24, 2021

Modern languages such as Java, F#, PHP, C#, Ruby, Python, and JavaScript provide features such as automatic memory management, object orientation, dynamic typing, and static typing, among others — all of which reduce the programming burden. Karu Sankaralingam, PhD, is founder/CEO/CTO of Madison, WI-based SimpleMachines, Inc.

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Software CTO Travel Library 92

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

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 Dominant Logic? What is your company's score? Gradual and accommodating change throughout the company from the top down, and 2.

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Chief Technology Officer CTO Constraint Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2018

A Harvard Business school study comparing immigrant-founded businesses to native-founded ones showed that immigrant-founded companies perform better in terms of employment growth over three- and six-year time horizons. Most companies are not prepared to handle global business from day one. The authors of the study, William R.

Globalization 8

Globalization Long-term Diversity CTO 8

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.

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Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 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?

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IPO Lewin CTO Conference 11

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.

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CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

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

JULY 23, 2013

Because no one is managing the store. The day-to-day financial activity within the organization is then executed by management and staff, who shoulder the responsibility — delegated to them by the enterprise as part of their job — to account for funds, both incoming and outgoing. They have remained, instead, CTO''s.

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CIO CFO Zero Based Budgeting Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2014

Employees need to have time away from managers so that they can grow,” says Edinger. Manage your re-entry. Get over yourself — the company probably won’t implode while you’re away. The fast-growing company had hit a number of milestones in recent months, including its first acquisition and plans for a second office. “I

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Stress Supply Chain CTO Case Study 11

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?

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CTO Case Study Learning Curve Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

Find out what keeps your manager up at night and propose solutions to those problems. For example, you might be able to identify a customer need that isn''t being met by your company''s current product line, and propose a new one. Or you could do a quick analysis of how much a specific change would save the company.

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