Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

He calls it “gypsy chefs,” a team that roams. What are the obstacles standing in the way of your team? To help disaster victims realize their own recovery, Field Ready teams begin by listening. Dara Dotz is removing obstacles to rapid recovery in humanitarian disasters with her NGO, Field Ready.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain NGO CTO Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

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 produce growth engines with calculated bets, not “wild-ass gambles.” You guide and support your own team of entrepreneurs. ” You believe anything is possible.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur CTO Business Model CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Immediate and radical change within small teams spearheading projects from the bottom up. 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.

Chief Technology Officer 13

Chief Technology Officer CTO Constraint Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

Knowing how to use lean, self-managing team methodologies is a prerequisite. Companies that lacked experience with lean methodologies had to be trained to operate as agile teams in order to define a specific use case for the technology. Talent tech raises urgency for further talent innovation. Often they were also the wrong demands.

Technology 10

Technology Talent Management Process Management 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers. Over time, teams adopted an even more aggressive approach to software development called “ continuous delivery , ” a highly automated method that enables them to make many small changes per day.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

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. Help teams form, adjust, and get and share needed information.

Agility 65

Agility Banking Supply Chain CTO 65

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

What most distinguishes innovation leadership, the book argues, is recognition that innovation is a “team sport,” not the act of a sole inventor. ” The team trucked the computers 360 miles from Burbank, California, to Emeryville, near San Francisco, setting the systems up over a weekend. Developing the Global Leader.

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

What most distinguishes innovation leadership, the book argues, is recognition that innovation is a “team sport,” not the act of a sole inventor. ” The team trucked the computers 360 miles from Burbank, California, to Emeryville, near San Francisco, setting the systems up over a weekend. Developing the Global Leader.

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

The original creation of Sephora.com was largely outsourced, and we didn’t have an internal digital development team when I joined. Having an in-house team is critical. 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.

Brand 10

Brand CTO Marketing Retail 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

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

Innovation 11

Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 11

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. In one large tech company, their product team focused significant upfront time writing small requirements (called “user stories”). Agile software development.

Agility 8

Agility Engineering Software How To 8