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Continuous Development Will Change Organizations as Much as Agile Did

Harvard Business Review

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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The C-Suite Needs a Chief Entrepreneur

Harvard Business Review

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.” This means managing entrepreneurs who can navigate trends and market behaviors. You do not work for the CEO, or alongside the CTO, CIO, and CFO.

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A 5-Part Process for Using Technology to Improve Your Talent Management

Harvard Business Review

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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How IBM, Intuit, and Rich Products Became More Customer-Centric

Harvard Business Review

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. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Insight Center. The Future of Operations.