Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

Much like putting a new sofa in the living room makes the rest of the décor look outdated, experimenting with new talent technologies creates an urgency for change in the rest of the organization’s practices. One CTO we spoke to tells a story about an AI project that “hit the wall” despite a sequence of green lights.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

These revolutionary developments required equally revolutionary changes, including more truly global firms, whole new industries, new ways of organizing enterprises (think first GM and then GE), new ways of working (email, virtual global teams), and more. That requires a new way of thinking about people and leadership.

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Agility Banking Supply Chain CTO 65

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

In this article we look at three very different organizations – IBM, Rich Products, and Intuit – and the three different paths they have taken in reconfiguring their operations for more customer intimacy, by changing methods, reengineering processes, and transforming culture. They faced a culture clash, however.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2013

At Boeing, all enterprise technology (including digital) investments are managed by the CTO, which enables significant synergies. Leaving the organization structure "as is" reduces disruption while the mechanisms help facilitate working together across the units. Taking this approach (e.g.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Specifically, what is the role of the leader in creating and sustaining an innovative organization? ” The authors identified organizations with reputations for being highly innovative, then found 16 leaders within those organizations and studied how they worked. To learn more about this program visit us here.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Specifically, what is the role of the leader in creating and sustaining an innovative organization? ” The authors identified organizations with reputations for being highly innovative, then found 16 leaders within those organizations and studied how they worked. To learn more about this program visit us here.

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Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

Edited excerpts: What brought you to Sephora and what was the state of its digital organization when you arrived? Unfortunately at many big organizations, some of the best ideas never come to fruition because the right IT expertise isn’t there. That may seem easy, but anyone who’s run a large organization knows it’s no small feat.

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Brand CTO Marketing Retail 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

This becomes especially important within a large organization where innovation is often perceived as a battle: the heroic disruptive David against the oafish bureaucratic Goliath, or a spy game requiring stealth. Celine Schillinger sought to change the leadership landscape of Sanofi, a major pharmaceutical company.

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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. The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

In the spirit of becoming more adaptive , organizations have rushed to implement Agile software development. These companies have become agile in name only, as the process they’ve put in place often ends up hurting engineering motivation and productivity. Peter Dazeley/Getty Images. Agile software development.

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