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. Rich countries are the most technologically advanced. As they develop, poor countries will catch up with rich ones.

Chief Technology Officer 12

Chief Technology Officer CTO Constraint Engineering 12

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Businesses from top global firms to main street staples are looking into a future driven by new technology capabilities. Alignment Teams must work in a way that gets the best input from all members, and gains understanding and commitment around common goals, schedules, methods, and decisions/directions of all kinds. About the Author.

Agility 65

Agility Banking Supply Chain CTO 65

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

With a tsunami of new digital technologies all converging simultaneously — social, mobile, cloud, analytics and embedded devices — there has been, once again, a cry for corporate IT to radically change to enable the digital transformation of businesses. New, more agile , software development tools and testing methods are utilized.

CIO 8

CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

There are core competencies that every PM must have – many of which can start in the classroom – but most are developed with experience and good role models and mentoring. If the best PMs have well developed core competencies and a high EQ, does that mean that they are then destined for success no matter where they work?

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 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 9

CTO Lewin IPO Mentor 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

So we developed a simple process to help people clarify their intentions and their positioning. A good way to keep yourself honest is to create a scenario that meets your stated goals but fails in other ways. No matter what your goals are, your writing must reach the right audience. What audience do you want to reach?

Audience 8

Audience Chief Technology Officer Open-book CTO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

This should go without saying, but it’s vitally important to develop relationships with the CEO, business unit leaders, and other key executives to understand the company’s strategy, so that the innovation approach and projects you pursue align with overall corporate goals. There may be a backlog of ideas waiting to be developed.

Innovation 8

Innovation Planning Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

“There’s nothing wrong with asking for reassurance,” and the answers “will give you insight into your strengths and the development needs of your reports.” ” Remember, Hill adds, your goal is to “figure out how you’re going to work together and support your employee.”

Management 8

Management How To CTO Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

In July 1999, I left a law firm for a business development role at a startup with a strange name — Akamai Technologies. Because of the phenomenal technology, timing and team, the Akamai IPO became one of the most successful IPOs of that era. His share of the company was worth over a billion dollars at the end of the day.

IPO 11

IPO Lewin CTO Conference 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Adoption risk: Adopting technologies or responding to market, business, and technology trends too quickly or too slowly; reactively or over thought, without considering how non-technical implications or unintended consequences contribute adoption risk. inaction disguised as patience and impatience also contribute to opportunity risk.

Dunning 8

Dunning Project CTO Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

But no one yet is successfully leveraging consumer data and relationships across the digital-physical divide at scale, despite early experimentation with technology such as beacons. Metrics cannot be focused on campaign-specific goals such as reach and conversion. Brands must align process and technology to make this happen.

Brand 8

Brand Disintermediation Media Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

But no one was sure what to cut and what to keep because the goals had not been clearly enough defined. CIOs, tasked with turning technology into revenue, are themselves pounding the table demanding better requirements for Big Data initiatives. Vendors salivated at what essentially was a blank check to collect and analyze everything.

CIO 8

CIO Budgeting Enterprise Architecture Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

In the spirit of becoming more adaptive , organizations have rushed to implement Agile software development. Agile software development. Frameworks for adaptive software development like Agile, have been around for a long time, and have manifested in many forms. But many have done so in a way that actually makes them less agile.

Agility 8

Agility Engineering Software How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2011

I've seen fascinating developments inside both big companies and emerging startups. That meeting's goal was to help accelerate the company's innovation efforts. The second meeting was a moderated discussion between P&G CTO Bruce Brown and me about our recent Harvard Business Review article. The technology is simple.

CTO 13

CTO Audience Consensus Innovation 13