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.

Technology 11

Technology Talent Management Process Management 11

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

MAY 4, 2018

Maximize engineering productivity. Engineers love continuous delivery environments because they can immediately see how their work adds value to the organization. When new CTO Prakash Khot arrived from Salesforce, he shifted the company towards continuous delivery, testing changes more frequently and on smaller audiences.

Agility 8

Agility Development Organization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

The Chief Entrepreneur will be responsible for managing a portfolio of entrepreneurs who experiment with new business models and value propositions. 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.” You persevere.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur CTO Business Model CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Increase R&D spending in emerging markets and focus it on local needs: Harman's core competency is engineering, and Paliwal shifted the engineering function's center of gravity from Germany and the United States to key emerging markets. Paliwal not only thwarted the coup, he supported Lawande's leadership and even made him the new CTO.

Chief Technology Officer 13

Chief Technology Officer CTO Constraint Engineering 13

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Beyond these “soft” skills, we need to encourage what Toyota calls “Towering Technical Competence”: certainly in the technical areas of data, networks, development processes and such, but also in customer understanding, testing, process engineering, and partner negotiations.

Agility 65

Agility Banking Supply Chain CTO 65

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

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. For a holiday promotion, a young project manager and his marketing colleagues launched a “treasure hunt,” working nonstop to launch registration pages, clues, and an hourly countdown clock.

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. At Harvard Business School’s General Management Program. Executive education students at Harvard Business School. As Harvard Business School Professor Linda A. Join the conversation. With Linda Hill.

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

She loved her job, and with a background in public affairs in communications had been successful in both international business and management roles. 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. Executing on Innovation. Innovation'

Innovation 11

Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2013

Three Approaches to Managing Total Digitization. How are enterprises managing the spread and scope of total digitization? We at MIT CISR have found that enterprises are using one or more of three approaches to managing total digitization: convergence, coordination, or a separate digital innovation stacks approach. Coordination.

CIO 9

CIO Organization Committee CTO 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

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. When the industry was purporting that mobile was best served as a content engine and mobile shopping would take years to take off, we dove-in head first. It’s new, but shouldn’t be.

Brand 11

Brand CTO Marketing Retail 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

With Frederick''s Taylor invention of scientific management in the 1880s, and its subsequent assimilation into what we now consider modern management, organizations have used logic and rationality to the eliminate waste, to seek efficiency, and to transfer human knowledge to tools and processes. IT management'

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