Skip Prichard

MARCH 13, 2020

So a good strategy is to learn about what automation solutions are out there, start experimenting and incorporating them into your workflows, and augment yourself using these technologies instead of rolling the dice and letting your employer make those decisions for you. “Automation is a game of tasks, not a game of occupations.”

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Blanchard Education CTO Technology 101

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

An analysis finds CMO pay declining while CTO pay skyrockets.

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CTO Technology Marketing Analysis 10

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. aleksandarvelasevic/Getty Images. Insight Center.

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Agility Development Organization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

At the law firm Allen & Overy, the idea of replacing traditional, annual performance appraisals with a technology-enabled continuous feedback system did not come from human resources. Working with new technologies in new and nimbler ways creates the need for additional innovation in talent practices. Walker and Walker/Getty Images.

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Technology Talent Management Process Management 10

Skip Prichard

APRIL 12, 2021

Leadership is shifting as we grapple with technology changes, shifting market realities, new business models, and unpredictable outside forces. 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. Thrive in a Hyper-Connected World.

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Self-aware Leadership Team Open-book 134

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The other one of us cofounded 10x Management , a well-respected talent agency representing top-tier freelance programmers, designers, and other technology professionals. We suggest a number of possible approaches for organization leaders to consider: Assign a roving chief technology officer or project manager. Here’s the problem.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

Each issue is packed with thought-provoking content and insight into the business issues that affect all companies competing in today’s technology-driven marketplace with recent contributions by best-selling author and researcher Tom Davenport; social media guru Chris Brogan; and Myron Scholes, world renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner.

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Real Estate Magazine Rogers Long-term 66

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2019

We would then develop a series of social media posts that focus on a particular topic related to either leading, followership or mentoring. Jim Hotaling conducts a leadership development seminar in Cancun, Mexico. For each leader, the focus would be on understanding the essence of leadership from their point of view. .

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Globalization Leadership Conference Diversity 276

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

Planning Poker is predominantly used by software developers, but it can facilitate virtually any business decision. This mode of conflict resolution is akin to the “blameless postmortem” approach much of the technology world takes to understand why products and endeavors don’t reach their full potential.

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Team Management CTO Open-book 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

Only 31% of Fortune 100 boards currently have a director who is a CIO, even though technology is at the core of every business today. As Sheila Jordan, CIO at Symantec and director at FactSet, put it, “All companies are technology companies today. Technology is a lever to run the business, but also to change and grow.”

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Businesses from top global firms to main street staples are looking into a future driven by new technology capabilities. organizational structure (such decentralizing and aligning technology to business areas more effectively), and governance. It’s an unrelenting focus on developing the best leaders at every level of your enterprise.

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Agility Banking Supply Chain CTO 65

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

Yet, in a function driven by innovation and the uncertainties surrounding the application and implication of future technologies, not using scenarios is tantamount to management malpractice. These threats and opportunities require a clear way to test how they will play out against various social, technological, and economic assumptions.

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Scenario Planning CIO Planning Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

This isn’t the fault of the technology or the CTO, who usually manages it. It’s a relationship-building tool — that’s why there’s an “r” in it — and it’s one of your only opportunities to put real effort and resources toward developing your network of relationships.

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CRM Execution CTO Metrics 8

Rajesh Setty

AUGUST 15, 2008

This game is developed by Pramati Technologies , the leading product development company, based in Hyderabad. Here’s what I found out from Pramati’s Co-founder & CTO Vijay Prasanna Pullur. VP: myPicks Beijing 2008 was developed by Pramati Technologies in collaboration with Sun Microsystems.

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Licensing CTO Participative Newsletter 28

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. But emerging new technologies may obfuscate those responsibilities with an interesting hybrid solution. Understanding the “memory wall”.

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Software CTO Travel Library 98

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

I''m often struck by how many articles exclusively focus on new or emerging technology and their productivity or efficiency effects. Every discussion on the role of IT and CIOs should start with the question: "What are the potential uses of this technology that will guarantee we stay in business?" Generating Top-Line Growth.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

Information Technology Changes the Way You Compete" was a trailblazing HBR article by Warren McFarlan back in the early 1980s. Their strategic use of information technology (IT) presaged the dot.com boom of the 1990s when the Internet made this kind of online ordering commonplace.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

In contrast, another software entrepreneur found that a poor choice of a chief technology officer, who was assumed by others to be the unannounced number two, prevented his small startup from being acquired by a Silicon Valley giant, because the potential acquirer found the CTO incapable of backing up the CEO as the company grew.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2011

I've seen fascinating developments inside both big companies and emerging startups. 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. Users whip out their smartphones, go to a special Web site, and key in their question.

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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.

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Chief Technology Officer CTO Constraint Engineering 12

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.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2013

Perhaps the most exciting (and challenging) aspect of working in a progressive IT organization is the pace of technological change. To do this, our Information Technology Group must engage with our key constituencies — faculty, students, and alumni — to best enable their innovative and experimental use of technology.

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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?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

E-commerce players were still figuring things out, and brick-and-mortar stores weren’t really experimenting with technology. Yet based on my own experiences, I believed we could use technology to make shopping more efficient. We’re constantly evaluating new technologies and platforms. And then we brainstorm.

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Brand CTO Marketing Retail 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.” Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

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Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 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.

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CTO Lewin IPO Mentor 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

IT professionals need to recognize and embrace the Serendipity Economy in order to better understand the impact of technology investments, improve employee engagement and drive business transformation. Technology investments work the same way. Serendipity into Performance. The measure of value requires external validation.

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CTO Franchising CIO Short-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.” ” Schwarz adds: “You don’t need to be the person’s mentor, but you need to help the person develop.”

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Management How To CTO Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

In search of a better solution, the airline turned to PASSUR Aerospace, a provider of decision-support technologies for the aviation industry. In search of a faster, cheaper way, Sears Holdings turned to the technologies and practices of big data. The technologies are new and in some cases exotic.

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Management Airlines Supply Chain CTO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

CIOs, tasked with turning technology into revenue, are themselves pounding the table demanding better requirements for Big Data initiatives. Most CMOs have woken up to the fact that technology is fundamentally changing what marketers do and we can’t treat IT like a back-office function,” says Jonathan Becher, CMO of SAP.

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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. This outdated thinking can be disastrous.

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Dunning Project CTO Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Today, she’s the Head of Stakeholder Engagement for their in-development Dengue Fever vaccine — one of Sanofi’s largest business initiatives. Capturing the Innovation Mind-Set at Bally Technologies. But what really packed the parachute was Scott’s demonstrated competence at the Seattle Food Geek blog. Innovation'

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Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 11

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 Everyone laughed."

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers.

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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.

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IPO Lewin CTO Conference 11

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. Technology can power smarter media placements and dynamic creative strategies at scale. Brands must align process and technology to make this happen.

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Brand Disintermediation Media Metrics 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.

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