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Learning The Keys To Exceptional Execution

Tanveer Naseer

Some went on to dominate a market without any previous background in it. It is now over forty years in existence and continues to grow and evolve even though she admitted in her first class that she hadn’t got a clue about how to lose weight. Not less gut wrenching, but simpler. So what’s the secret? These are not isolated examples.

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The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer

Harvard Business Review

These three change accelerators are what lie behind today''s avalanche of business transformation, and they are directly affecting the roles of CIO and CTO. And, just as the CIO''s role needs to change, so too does the CTO''s—from Chief Technology Officer to Chief Transformation Officer.

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How Technical Debt Opens the Door to Cyber Attacks—and Steps to Protect Your Small Business

Strategy Driven

Let’s look at how that might happen and how to prevent it. Months of investigation by a cyber consulting firm finally determined the source of the vulnerability to Azotrope’s network: a combination printer/fax machine in their testing and QA area that engineers regularly used to fax lunch orders to a local Chinese restaurant.

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Continuous Development Will Change Organizations as Much as Agile Did

Harvard Business Review

How to make your company more nimble and responsive. Companies that can successfully implement Continuous Development throughout their organization will find dramatic strategic benefits, including: Faster time-to-market. Maximize engineering productivity. Insight Center. Competing in the Future. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy.

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

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. Performing market assessments. Core Competencies. Running design sprints.

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Leading Innovation Is the Art of Creating “Collective Genius” - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HBS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Harvard Business Review

Linda Hill, the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration, is the faculty chair of Leading and Building a Culture of Innovation, a new program teaching executives how to create an organization equipped for innovative problem solving. To learn more about this program visit us here. Willing to Take Chances.

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How Sephora Reorganized to Become a More Digital Brand

Harvard Business Review

Sephora, the cosmetics retailer, has been widely recognized as a leader in integrating its digital marketing efforts into its overall strategy. As one sign of that, Sephora has a single executive who serves as both chief marketing officer and chief digital officer. Marketing and internal IT expertise are both at the table.

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