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How To Disrupt the Tech World

Mills Scofield

What is your image of an inventor or innovator? Increasing evidence shows most innovation comes from two or more people…one of whom might even be a woman! We stereotype innovators as men and mainly in STEM* products. Fast-forward ~ Innovating Women launches today! Get Innovating Women. A man alone in a lab?

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The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer

Harvard Business Review

Today''s IT leaders have known about the exponential growth of processing power, storage, and bandwidth, but like the frog, they didn''t notice the boiling point approaching because the change has happened over so many decades. This also means that the CTO and CIO need to collaborate more closely.

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Continuous Development Will Change Organizations as Much as Agile Did

Harvard Business Review

While Agile began as a product development innovation, it sparked a corporate strategy and process revolution. Maximize engineering productivity. Engineers love continuous delivery environments because they can immediately see how their work adds value to the organization. By August 2017, it took an average of 3.5

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The C-Suite Needs a Chief Entrepreneur

Harvard Business Review

What they don’t do well enough is reinvent and innovate. Sure, there are exceptions who are both visionary CEOs and innovators — Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos, for example — but there are very few companies that can stomach that sort of leadership. So if the CEO isn’t someone who can innovate, then who should?

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To Come Up with a Good Idea, Start by Imagining the Worst Idea Possible

Harvard Business Review

McManus’s reframing of leadership — the leader as the sidekick, the intern as the superhero — embodies three powerful principles that enable innovation and discovery. To recognize how innovative this approach is, just imagine telling your intern or most junior employee that come Monday, you are their intern.

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Whose Job Is It to Manage Freelancers?

Harvard Business Review

One approach that 10X has recommended is creating a roving CTO or project managers. In this sense it is similar to the roving CTO but focused more on the depth and effectiveness of the agile talent network. ” Similar in some respects to the CTO role is the role of the technical “chief.”

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A 5-Part Process for Using Technology to Improve Your Talent Management

Harvard Business Review

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. Talent tech raises urgency for further talent innovation.