Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Vivek and Farai have curated a collection of personal, powerful, inspiring, encouraging, disruptive, and challenging stories of women who grabbed the status quo by the horns. Freshman Engineers designing radial keyboard for the communication impaired (e.g., STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering and Math; STEAM = STEM + [Art + Design].

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2013

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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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

This is a huge divergence from the traditional norm for chief roles, but the CE is a necessary position of power to ensure that a company innovates. This is not a CTO role or a role that reports to the CEO. The Chief Entrepreneur is an executive as powerful as the CEO, with clear leadership over radical innovation within the company.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

McManus’s reframing of leadership — the leader as the sidekick, the intern as the superhero — embodies three powerful principles that enable innovation and discovery. Suddenly the victim is the superhero and the designers and engineers are the sidekick, collaborating together to find the best solutions.

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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.

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