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.

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

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. The Future of Operations.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

IT is already being asked both to industrialize traditional infrastructures and systems fast to save costs, and to innovate customer experiences and operations with new digital technologies. They have changed their IT functions utilizing three related management interventions which, taken together, represent a fundamental re-invention of IT.

CIO 8

CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

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., Improving Operational Efficiency.

Enterprise Architecture 8

Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 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.”

CIO 9

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.

Software 101

Software CTO Travel Library 101

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

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. Insight Center.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 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

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

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2013

Three Approaches to Managing Total Digitization. How are enterprises managing the spread and scope of total digitization? We at MIT CISR have found that enterprises are using one or more of three approaches to managing total digitization: convergence, coordination, or a separate digital innovation stacks approach. Coordination.

CIO 9

CIO Organization Committee CTO 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

In 1998, the company launched its website, making Sephora an early player in e-commerce. Digital is often one of the many silos within a company. Not even a decade ago, companies like Nordstrom ran Nordstrom.com as an entirely separate business. The impact that had on the operations and culture was significant.

Brand 11

Brand CTO Marketing Retail 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

The core disruptive concept is that the “pipe” created by the cable MSOs (multiple system operators) no longer provides the sole gateway to consumers’ television screens. Think about messaging: We’ve relied on mobile phone operators (AT&T, Verizon, et al.) to send text messages.

Brand 8

Brand Disintermediation Media Metrics 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

JUNE 28, 2013

Today, I make strategic and tactical technology decisions as the CTO of Atlantic Media. It''s frequently seen as peripheral or even an impediment to business operations. Would it start with educating the employees at my company? This solution erects a barrier, which will be perceived as hindering daily operations.

Company 8

Company CTO Policies Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

These companies have become agile in name only, as the process they’ve put in place often ends up hurting engineering motivation and productivity. In one large Fortune 100 company, the head of digital products said to us, “we’re not allowed to question the Agile process.” Agile software development.

Agility 8

Agility Engineering Software How To 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

political system, the business world has no rules requiring that every leader have a backup, or that every corporate chief executive has a chief operating officer. 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. Unlike the U.S.

COO 16

COO Wireless Ryan Chief Operating Officer 16