N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2019

My goal was to meet with a globally diverse group of thought leaders and top executives to discover what is required to lead in today’s volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous environment. Finally, Do which represents action ( i.e., setting goals, providing directions, communicating, etc. ).

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Globalization Leadership Conference Diversity 276

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Chief-Technology-Officer CTO, and Human Resources Business Partners within the IT Team and Mike will serve as the Accountability-Team to check-in and coach the directors for completion of the 100 day action plans. CTO – Why are we here? How does this fit into the larger strategic goals? What’s the company’s goal?

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Team Building Team CTO Leadership 129

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

As promised , I asked Bruce Brown , P&G's CTO, one of the questions readers submitted last week: "As you look forward into the future what do you see as P&G's largest challenges, as seen through your eyes as CTO?" Brown noted three specific challenges. First, the general challenge of growth. P&G is about an $80 billion company.

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Innovation CTO Senge Globalization 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

This isn’t the fault of the technology or the CTO, who usually manages it. The problem is that CRM’s purported goals are vastly different from the way it usually functions in real life. Because it involves software, many companies make it the CTO’s responsibility. It’s a result of misguided strategy.

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CRM Execution CTO Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2011

The news had just hit that Danny Lewin — the co-founder of Akamai Technologies, its charismatic CTO, a former commando in the Israeli Special Forces, and MIT mathematics genius who led the company from a math class to an IPO and a market cap of $30 billion — had suddenly died. For all of us, Danny was our CTO and visionary.

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CTO Lewin IPO Mentor 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2013

They start with a map of the company''s critical business capabilities — those concrete business activities that are vital to meeting a strategic goal (e.g. So, if the business leadership agrees that capability A is twice as important to realizing their goals as capability B, capability A is targeted for twice as much investment.

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Innovation CIO ROI CTO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

From the bottom up, Local Growth Teams (LGTs) should: Establish radical goals: Harman built an LGT in India to design a new auto infotainment system to provide all the functionality at half the price and one-third the cost. Paliwal not only thwarted the coup, he supported Lawande's leadership and even made him the new CTO.

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Chief Technology Officer CTO Constraint Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

A good way to keep yourself honest is to create a scenario that meets your stated goals but fails in other ways. If you hem and haw and equivocate, then you need to drill deeper and make sure you figure out what other goals must be included in this scenario for you to be satisfied with the result. Question 2: Who am I writing this for?

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Audience Chief Technology Officer Open-book CTO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2013

I fundamentally believe that these need not be mutually exclusive goals. Today''s IT consumers understandably expect to receive the highest levels of service and the best-suited solutions for their unique goals and day-to-day activities. This requires a thoughtful strategy that accelerates action, rather than introduces friction.

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CIO Positioning PPM Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

For example, if a CRO or CTO leaves a young company, it can cripple the organization. Some of their tactics included addressing employee feedback head-on, creating a program of formal career paths, increasing levels of recognition, and over-communicating expectations and goals.

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Morale Attrition Early Adopters Benchmarking 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

For example, Camille Fournier, former CTO of Rent the Runway, described the pain and reward of planning. Depending on the size of the team and the overlap of the work, it can also make the process easier to break down monthly goals into a weekly plan together. Planning takes longer than expected (and so does the work).

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Planning CTO Project Charisma 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Relationship management is also vital in successful negotiation, resolving conflicts and working with others toward a shared goal which is especially challenging when a PM is tasked with balancing the needs of customers, resource-constrained engineering teams, and the company’s revenue goals.

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Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Alignment Teams must work in a way that gets the best input from all members, and gains understanding and commitment around common goals, schedules, methods, and decisions/directions of all kinds. And efficiency in pursuit of decision reached without rigor is just doing the wrong things more quickly.

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Agility Banking Supply Chain CTO 65

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

Our co-founder and CTO, Danny Lewin, had suddenly turned from a struggling graduate student to a staggeringly wealthy man. He knew — and I hope Mark Zuckerberg will recognize the same — that the chance to achieve a big goal, alongside a compelling leader, is stickier than any stock promise could ever be.

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IPO Lewin CTO Conference 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

This should go without saying, but it’s vitally important to develop relationships with the CEO, business unit leaders, and other key executives to understand the company’s strategy, so that the innovation approach and projects you pursue align with overall corporate goals.

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Innovation Planning Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

” Remember, Hill adds, your goal is to “figure out how you’re going to work together and support your employee.” ” This research had two advantages: One, it made the hiring process go more smoothly and, two, it has helped Emily manage Heather, her new CTO. ” Give—and take—feedback.

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Management How To CTO Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

And, they align the KPIs of each function to common goals. The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. They reduce duplication of efforts and skills, thus reducing operational costs. They drive innovation and speed up time to market. Organizations in every industry need to follow their example. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs).

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CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

They have remained, instead, CTO''s. We can cost cut by slowing the growth of information and applying a more critical eye to Band-Aid technology requests such as e-mail archives or yet more storage, and thereby also achieve better alignment with long-term business goals. CIO''s have never broadly achieved their destiny.

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CIO CFO Zero Based Budgeting Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

One CTO we spoke to tells a story about an AI project that “hit the wall” despite a sequence of green lights. All of this is driving a shift from annual performance assessments to systems that provide feedback and coaching on a continuous basis, as firms ranging from Allen & Overy to Microsoft have found.

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Technology Talent Management Process Management 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

” The goal here is to help your colleague accept her new authority over you and demonstrate that you trust her to do the job. Sutton agrees that your goal should be to support your peer-turned-manager as she “grows into the new role.” Ankit became CTO.

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CTO Case Study Learning Curve Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2014

The goal is to separate yourself from work as much as possible, but often a quick scan of your messages can actually dispel fears that the office is falling apart without you, and let you retire back to the pool in peace. Give yourself permission to check in. To check email or not to check email? It’s the perennial question.

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Stress Supply Chain CTO Case Study 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

Support your boss in reaching her goals. Mike Subelsky, the co-founder and CTO at Staq, a tech start-up that makes software for digital advertising companies, spent most of his early career in roles with lots of responsibility, but not much authority. "I Principles to Remember.

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CTO Case Study Career Project 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2013

At Boeing, all enterprise technology (including digital) investments are managed by the CTO, which enables significant synergies. ES helped CBA achieve its goal of both reducing costs and becoming number one in customer experience. This approach works well when there are one or two enterprise-wide goals.

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CIO Organization Committee CTO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Measurement risk: Fail to measure the real goal of innovation, focus on project progress rather than value created and turning management measures into goals instigating aberrant behavior. Small, agile cycles of development and risk assessment help to measure goals, evaluate success and easily change execution strategy.

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Dunning Project CTO Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

Metrics cannot be focused on campaign-specific goals such as reach and conversion. Above all, the goal cannot be one-time interaction, it should be meaningful long-term engagement and ideally opportunities for what Seth Godin, back in 2008, called “ Permission Marketing.” ” Data.

Brand 8

Brand Disintermediation Media Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

But no one was sure what to cut and what to keep because the goals had not been clearly enough defined. A successful partnership, therefore, begins with the CMO being able to define business goals, use cases, and specific requirements of any data or analytics initiative. The solution? Cut back the scope. Bring complete transparency.

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CIO Budgeting Enterprise Architecture Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2016

” “My parents expect me to marry a particular (kind of) person, even if committing to that potential spouse would cut against my career goals.” The goal is to clarify, to find out what they (your stakeholders) really think, not what you think they think.

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Career CTO Class Influence 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

It is no wonder that the CTO of this company said, “my engineers feel like short order cooks in the back of a diner.” The goal of the pod is to drive collaboration. Engineering and Product functions actually have different goals from the top. This process is exactly what Agile was meant to eliminate.

Agility 8

Agility Engineering Software How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2011

That meeting's goal was to help accelerate the company's innovation efforts. The second meeting was a moderated discussion between P&G CTO Bruce Brown and me about our recent Harvard Business Review article. The first meeting took place inside a large company based in Asia.

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CTO Audience Consensus Innovation 13