Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2013

Perhaps the most exciting (and challenging) aspect of working in a progressive IT organization is the pace of technological change. Managing this rapid change and fostering innovation while "keeping the trains running on time" is the primary leadership role required of any CIO, new or old. Generate Room for Innovation.

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CIO Positioning PPM Information Technology 8

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Additional content will be shared on Team Development and Management. 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? 9:40-10:00.

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Team Building Team CTO Leadership 129

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Rich countries are the most technologically advanced. We should be able to meet their needs with cheap products based on older technology. We excel in product leadership and advanced technology — values inconsistent with the ultra-low-cost products poor countries require.

Chief Technology Officer 13

Chief Technology Officer CTO Constraint Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

It''s time for CIOs to move beyond their roles as chief technology officers, and embrace the name with all of its implications: Chief Information Officer. Because no one is managing the store. At the same time, technology budgets are static or contracting, and non-IT execs want more attention to cost-cutting.

CIO 8

CIO CFO Zero Based Budgeting Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

With a tsunami of new digital technologies all converging simultaneously — social, mobile, cloud, analytics and embedded devices — there has been, once again, a cry for corporate IT to radically change to enable the digital transformation of businesses. There is no time for complacency. Research points to the latter.

CIO 8

CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Businesses from top global firms to main street staples are looking into a future driven by new technology capabilities. 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. He lives in St.

Agility 65

Agility Banking Supply Chain CTO 65

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

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?

Audience 8

Audience Chief Technology Officer Open-book CTO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

In July 1999, I left a law firm for a business development role at a startup with a strange name — Akamai Technologies. On day one, because we did not yet have a general counsel, the company told me — the only ex-lawyer then on staff — to manage the IPO.

IPO 12

IPO Lewin CTO Conference 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2013

Three Approaches to Managing Total Digitization. How are enterprises managing the spread and scope of total digitization? We at MIT CISR have found that enterprises are using one or more of three approaches to managing total digitization: convergence, coordination, or a separate digital innovation stacks approach. Coordination.

CIO 9

CIO Organization Committee CTO 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Adoption risk: Adopting technologies or responding to market, business, and technology trends too quickly or too slowly; reactively or over thought, without considering how non-technical implications or unintended consequences contribute adoption risk. IT creates risk confusing leadership, governance, and managing.

Dunning 8

Dunning Project CTO Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

But no one yet is successfully leveraging consumer data and relationships across the digital-physical divide at scale, despite early experimentation with technology such as beacons. Metrics cannot be focused on campaign-specific goals such as reach and conversion. Brands must align process and technology to make this happen.

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. CIOs, tasked with turning technology into revenue, are themselves pounding the table demanding better requirements for Big Data initiatives. Vendors salivated at what essentially was a blank check to collect and analyze everything.

CIO 8

CIO Budgeting Enterprise Architecture Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

When Agile software development was born in 2001, it articulated a set of four critical principles to elevate the craft of software development and improve engineering and product manager motivation. It is no wonder that the CTO of this company said, “my engineers feel like short order cooks in the back of a diner.”

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. Then the middle managers left, and the gloves came off. The second meeting was a moderated discussion between P&G CTO Bruce Brown and me about our recent Harvard Business Review article. The technology is simple. Then the top brass left.

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CTO Audience Consensus Innovation 13