Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Leaders of small and medium size businesses (SMBs) often think their size lets them operate under the radar, as less attractive targets to bad guys. Let’s look at how that might happen and how to prevent it. ™: How to Future Proof Your Small Business and Improve Your Tech Bottom Line. His new book is Tech Debt 2.0™:

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Bottom-up Software Policies CIO 91

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2017

You’re not cut out for engineering. When I launched my first company in 2008 (CarZen, acquired by Liberty Mutual), one of my first hires was a CTO. I made him the CTO’s protégé, and had the CTO spend time teaching and evaluating him. Or perhaps they want to jump from engineering to sales.

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CTO Goal How To Learning-by-Doing 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.

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Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

And because organizational change tends to be driven by those who most acutely feel the pain, it’s often line managers who are the strongest champions for “talent tech”: innovations in how firms hire people, staff projects, evaluate performance, and develop talent. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

Technology 11

Technology Talent Management Process Management 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

How have you addressed this since joining Sephora? The impact that had on the operations and culture was significant. 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. What haven’t you solved?

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Brand CTO Marketing Retail 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

This perspective created the industrial economy lens through which most managers perceive their operations. In collaborations systems, for instance, don''t overly engineer processes so that they constrain a system''s ability to adapt. The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. Reinventing Corporate IT An HBR Insight Center.

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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.

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Agility Engineering Software How To 8