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A Board Director's Perspective on What IT Has to Get Right

Harvard Business Review

As many companies move from exclusively internal focused R&D to distributed-innovation systems (e.g., The biggest challenge is identifying the associated cost savings and headcount reductions and ensuring these funds or resources are allocated to growth and innovation projects. The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer.

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

Harvard Business Review

At the law firm Allen & Overy, the idea of replacing traditional, annual performance appraisals with a technology-enabled continuous feedback system did not come from human resources. Starting small allowed extremely fast learning and iteration, broader scaling, and more-complex uses of the system.

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Team Building Agenda: Kick-off Program for IT Leadership Team

Mike Cardus

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? o Interaction of culture on teams and systems-drive-behavior. 9:40-10:00.