Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Take Sheryl Sandberg, COO at Facebook, who took it upon herself to help women attain leadership roles in business, wrote a book about how to do it, Lean In, and started a foundation to promote it, Leanin.org. . * * * This post is by Andy Cunningham. They were willing to die for it. Often it is about changing the status quo.

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Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

Technology trends. When we work with C-suite executives and with senior teams in our organizational practice, we often hear concerns about the disconnections between the current organizational culture and the needed culture to implement the future-proof strategy,” our COO David Altman says.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 13, 2016

I’m a big fan of scaling up innovative ideas and making sure they have as much impact as possible. A shockingly large percentage of startups fail because they fall in love with their technology or innovation and miss the fact that it doesn’t solve a problem for the customers described in Question 2.

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Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Last month, we learned about Geneca's journey into creating a culture of innovation within the company. Ken Pedersen, COO. Now we can learn about their journey into sharing their talents and treasures with their community. Just goes to show what great leadership can do! Gary Heusner, Client Partner; Chatham Project Scribe.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Authority on new technology and communication. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Formerly a leader in the automotive, retail, restaurant, media innovation and consulting industries. Leads Tuck’s incredibly innovative coaching program.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Stuart Oliver: Entrepreneur, Interim CIO, Technology COO, Strategist, » Blog Archive » To blog or not to blog [.] Most of you who have been following this blog know that I’ve been an a strong evangelist of social media, and perhaps even more so of blogging for several years now. I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

CEOs/COOs are looking at the wrong data…they look for trends while or after they happen, not searching for clues before they happen. link] Terri Schepps The reality is most CEOs believe having a CRM in place ensures the best customer experience. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio.

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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 15, 2015

Innovation Advocate. Contact: caduhigg@gmail 9 43,800 5,107 9,706 Clayton Christensen Innovation, Leadership Professor at Harvard Business School. Tweets with occasional assistance from the Fellows at the Forum for Growth & Innovation. 37 103,000 2,813 132,141 Guy Kawasaki Innovation, Leadership Mantra: I empower people.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Ginkgo Bioworks COO Reshma Shetty discusses the company’s integrated approach to scaling synthetic biology.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

The fear of getting Netflix-ed or Uber-ized is spurring big companies to dial up their investment in innovation. But as investment increases, many companies are struggling with a challenging question: how do you know whether your chosen innovation strategy is actually bearing fruit? Number of projects in the innovation pipeline.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

Despite rapid innovations in data processing and machine learning, many businesses have yet to make the leap from the Industrial Age to the information age, and the gap between technological and organizational progress is widening. Closing this gap requires much more than short-term fixes, like adopting new technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Lines of business are now getting their own official technology budgets for non-standard software products. CEOs remain reluctant to invite CIOs to the executive table, insisting that IT is a cost center, not the innovation incubator it could be. Shadow IT has been freshly-labeled "departmental IT.".

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

By helping business leaders to improve their businesses, the CIO becomes an obvious candidate to fill any open role that involves technology, process, or strong governance. Some CIOs become CIO-Plus-COO or CIO-Plus-Head of Shared Services. Others gain new responsibilities in strategy, M&A integration, or innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2018

Hiring a new person is an opportunity to do something differently than before — to innovate. Or perhaps the solution lies in better application of technological tools, rather than additional people. If you really do need to hire someone new, don’t hire a mini-me. .”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

The phenomenon of fast-track CEO succession appears to be most prominent in the retail, technology, media, and telecommunications sectors—all of which are particularly affected by disruptive business models and new competitors. Through this effort, we have observed certain characteristics of this emerging trend.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

The CAO should be under an executive that naturally spans all of the business units that have analytical needs, such as the Chief Strategy Officer, the CFO, and the COO. Information & technology Leadership' But wherever he or she lands, the CAO should be viewed neutrally — a Switzerland of the executive suite.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

To Foster Innovation, Connect Coworkers Who Share Aspirations. I never realized that we have behavioral economists on staff who can apply psychological and cognitive research to help clients with technology implementation projects. You and Your Team Series. Collaboration. Amy Jen Su. Celia de Anca and Salvador Aragón.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Consider Nissan’s “Vision Zero” which aims for “zero traffic accidents involving Nissan vehicles that inflict serious or fatal injuries,” according to COO Toshiyuki Shiga. But it’s also very good for the business. Walmart will eliminate landfill waste from U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2013

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) wants a preliminary framework in place by the end of this summer, with a final set of guidelines ready to go in February 2014. Government Information & technology Risk management' The response to today''s cyber threats can''t be limited to Washington.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2011

Since then, using the Net and social networking technologies such as Twitter and Facebook, people in their 20s and 30s have been collecting and disseminating valuable data; collaborating with others they have never met; and creating rescue projects on the fly as well as garnering resources for them.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

She''s an expert on strategy, innovation, and leading change. In her latest book, SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good , she analyzed how P&G (among other companies) achieved long-term performance. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School. She''s on twitter @RosabethKanter.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, speaking at City Colleges of Chicago. You’re witnessing creative destruction and disruptive innovation at work. So congratulations graduates – as you move forward in your careers, you’ll be face to face with innovation that’s relentless. Sometimes the hardest part is just getting started.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

The innovative system promised to reduce local governments’ energy consumption and maintenance costs and improve their constituent relationships. Some localities had bought lights but failed to fully utilize the accompanying technology, which meant they couldn’t service them properly or achieve the hoped-for energy savings.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

To hit P&L targets, for instance, the CMO at one technology company focused on shortening the sales cycle. Companies across the spectrum are grappling with change as new technologies, innovations, and customer behaviors disrupt old business models.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

This is where the opportunity lies — in collaboration that includes the final approvers, embedding legal teams in the design and innovation process. Ironically, not including lawyers in the collaborative process perpetuates the idea that they smother innovation. Remind your company that there are risks to not innovating.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. Specifically, what is the role of the leader in creating and sustaining an innovative organization? Or, as Hill puts it, “Conventional leadership won’t get you to innovation.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. Specifically, what is the role of the leader in creating and sustaining an innovative organization? Or, as Hill puts it, “Conventional leadership won’t get you to innovation.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

The ground rules for fluidly shifting course — or, when needed, radically altering direction — apply equally well to start-ups outside the classroom, as well as to innovative ventures within established companies. He was formerly CEO of Timbuk2 and COO of Patagonia. Have an idea compost pile.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2013

CIOs are being tasked with managing internal business systems, cloud-based services, big data innovation, data security, and the 24x7 needs of global customers who access company data on personal devices. Chief "Innovation" Officer: Looking for disruptive technologies to drive innovation. Exploit IT for Strategic Benefit.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2014

One COO of a fast-growing Silicon Valley company told me he never thought so much of his job was going focus on how to get the best burritos to the cafeteria to avoid losing employees to the next Internet darling. Organizational culture Technology Work life balance' New employees get the latest tech gadgets as signing bonuses.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

It was, in part, the rise of the technology industry that gave charm a new urgency, because tech companies needed managers on the inside who were "technical and charismatic." This is how opportunities to be nimble and innovative are squandered, he says, and how companies become irrelevant.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

Heins, the new CEO of Research in Motion (RIM), has been plucked from the company's relatively obscure COO position to fill the giant shoes of two longtime co-CEOs as they depart at the behest of angry investors. Perhaps Thorsten Heins has longed to run a big, public company. But probably the dream didn't look like this.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

While still in that mindset, he received a phone call from Jeff Hammerbacher, the COO of a newfangled Silicon Valley startup with 8 million student users, who persuaded Ben to fly to California to meet the people working there. He believed in making a positive impact in his community, and realized his day-to-day work wasn't aligned with that.

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