Tanveer Naseer

MAY 6, 2014

Counter-intuitively, many successful entrepreneurs didn’t start with a compelling vision, a wow idea or indeed a workable business plan. 500 entrepreneurs found 60% didn’t create a business plan before launching their companies. Guibert Englebienne, co-founder and CTO of Globant told me, “When you find unique talent, recruit it.

Execution 257

Execution CTO Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 257

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2013

These three change accelerators are what lie behind today''s avalanche of business transformation, and they are directly affecting the roles of CIO and CTO. And, just as the CIO''s role needs to change, so too does the CTO''s—from Chief Technology Officer to Chief Transformation Officer. That''s a huge shift.

CTO 8

CTO CIO Chief Technology Officer Chief Information Officer 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Months of investigation by a cyber consulting firm finally determined the source of the vulnerability to Azotrope’s network: a combination printer/fax machine in their testing and QA area that engineers regularly used to fax lunch orders to a local Chinese restaurant.

Bottom-up 99

Bottom-up Software Policies CIO 99

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.

CTO 8

CTO Goal How To Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

One approach that 10X has recommended is creating a roving CTO or project managers. Their principal responsibility is to support product managers and technical teams in optimizing the planning, onboarding, utilization, and management of freelancers. Broaden the role of your “chiefs.”

CTO 8

CTO Agility Management Chief Technology Officer 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. Feature prioritization and roadmap planning. Core Competencies. Running design sprints.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

Much has been made of the scarcity of AI engineers, along with the fact that the precious few are quickly snapped up at huge salaries by the usual suspects — Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook. One CTO we spoke to tells a story about an AI project that “hit the wall” despite a sequence of green lights.

Technology 11

Technology Talent Management Process Management 11