Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

It’s an executive who can help large companies reinvent themselves while they’re still successful. This is not a CTO role or a role that reports to the CEO. The Chief Entrepreneur is an executive as powerful as the CEO, with clear leadership over radical innovation within the company.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur CTO Business Model CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Beyond shipping new features on a regular cadence and keeping the peace between engineering and the design team, the best PMs create products with strong user adoption that have exponential revenue growth and perhaps even disrupt an industry. Core Competencies. Self-management: Being a PM can be incredibly stressful.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

They applied her discoveries to an Autodesk research project called Primordial, and at McManus’s urging, it was Lisa who presented the project to 400 top executives and clients. Suddenly the victim is the superhero and the designers and engineers are the sidekick, collaborating together to find the best solutions.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain NGO CTO Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

Much has been made of the scarcity of AI engineers, along with the fact that the precious few are quickly snapped up at huge salaries by the usual suspects — Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook. One CTO we spoke to tells a story about an AI project that “hit the wall” despite a sequence of green lights.

Technology 11

Technology Talent Management Process Management 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

In response to the rapid advance of cloud computing, IBM’s software engineering groups embraced the Agile development method – with teams focused on incremental delivery of new capabilities every few weeks or months. To the engineers, the design thinking process seemed like a return to the Waterfall method. .”

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Humans have been able to organize large numbers of people into a common mission and execute amazing things, from conquering armies to astonishing constructions project like the pyramids. That requires a new way of thinking about people and leadership. The nature of large-scale digital is, I believe, something new in human endeavor.

Agility 65

Agility Banking Supply Chain CTO 65

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. Read more from Harvard Business School Executive Education: How to Spot a Liar. As Harvard Business School Professor Linda A. What she didn’t find, however, was work linking the two.

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Executive education students at Harvard Business School. HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. Read more from Harvard Business School Executive Education: How to Spot a Liar. As Harvard Business School Professor Linda A.

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

But as she began to consider her future at the company, she realized that all of the people above her were white, male engineers or accountants. This led to the HR VP brokering a meeting with the CEO and an invitation to make a formal presentation to the Executive Committee. Executing on Innovation. An HBR Insight Center.

Innovation 12

Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2013

This approach brings all digitization investments together and places them under a single executive. At Boeing, all enterprise technology (including digital) investments are managed by the CTO, which enables significant synergies. Each approach has very different objectives and measures of success. Convergence.

CIO 9

CIO Organization Committee CTO 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

As one sign of that, Sephora has a single executive who serves as both chief marketing officer and chief digital officer. We’re lucky to have an amazing CTO with a deep knowledge of e-commerce and strong desire to partner with the business, and a strong team behind him.

Brand 11

Brand CTO Marketing Retail 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

Because of complex interactions, the current value of a network may change significantly depending on who takes part, the topic of engagement, and the ability, capability, or permission to execute. In collaborations systems, for instance, don''t overly engineer processes so that they constrain a system''s ability to adapt.

CTO 8

CTO Franchising CIO Short-term 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. These requirements were put into a ticket queue as tasks for the next available engineer to start working on. But many have done so in a way that actually makes them less agile.

Agility 8

Agility Engineering Software How To 8