Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

But, actually, their lack of robust security strategy and resources make them easier to penetrate. This is especially true for SMBs that lack the resources to apply to cybersecurity. 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.

Bottom-up 91

Bottom-up Software Policies CIO 91

Skip Prichard

APRIL 29, 2024

Leadership in the storm Imagine you’re on a boat. Oleg Konovalov’s vision of leadership doesn’t come from textbooks. Oleg’s journey from the deck of a fishing trawler to the forefront of leadership is a tale of transformation. Leadership, Oleg argues, is similar. It’s decision time.

Leadership 74

Leadership Learning-by-Doing Engineering Team 74

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

Which companies allocate the highest proportion of that budget to engineering in China and India, specifically? And what drives their success with these global engineering initiatives? Six selected insights are presented here, tempered with our own experience in many years of consulting with global engineering initiatives.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring CTO Company Engineering 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. The art of resource allocation (it is not a science!). Core Competencies.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

We excel in product leadership and advanced technology — values inconsistent with the ultra-low-cost products poor countries require. Bulk up on emerging market knowledge and expertise: Paliwal now transports his entire leadership team to China for a month every year.

Chief Technology Officer 13

Chief Technology Officer CTO Constraint Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

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. This is not a CTO role or a role that reports to the CEO. You produce growth engines with calculated bets, not “wild-ass gambles.”

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur CTO Business Model CEO 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

That requires a new way of thinking about people and leadership. But there’s a model of leadership that will. Above all, driving the use of these techniques depends on the stance of leadership. Leadership should make it clear that they are offended by wasting time, as it’s also wasting energy, resources and brain space.

Agility 65

Agility Banking Supply Chain CTO 65