Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

"Asia Fueling Global Innovation." That was the theme of the 2-hour panel discussion I moderated as part of a full-day ceremony celebrating the groundbreaking of Procter & Gamble's SGD 250m Innovation Centre in Singapore. It typically shoots for 4 to 6 percent organic growth every year. Brown noted three specific challenges.

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Innovation CTO Senge Globalization 14

Skip Prichard

APRIL 12, 2021

Tom Goodell, in The Four Fields of Leadership: How People and Organizations Can Thrive in a Hyper-Connected World , studies various disparate fields and challenges existing models of leadership to provide a new framework for leadership thinking. He was the CTO of a global manufacturing company. I hope you enjoy our conversation.

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Self-aware Leadership Team Open-book 135

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

While Agile began as a product development innovation, it sparked a corporate strategy and process revolution. Companies that can successfully implement Continuous Development throughout their organization will find dramatic strategic benefits, including: Faster time-to-market. Customers enjoy the benefit of new features sooner.

Agility 8

Agility Development Organization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Your energy and track record of successfully launching high-impact initiatives scored you a plum role heading up innovation. Expectations are high, but some skeptics in the organization feel that innovation is an overhyped buzzword that doesn’t justify being a separate function. Congratulations!

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Innovation Planning Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2013

Furthermore, this lack of context prevents organizations from identifying other investment ideas that have high potential but haven''t bubbled up organically through project requests. The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. A global high-tech equipment provider is taking a different approach. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs).

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Innovation CIO ROI CTO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Organizations in every industry and geography are increasingly indebted to external talent, whom we term agile talent , to augment their resources in strategic areas. The benefits are substantial: Agile talent provides organizations with greater flexibility, speed, and competitive insight. Here’s the problem. This is a big miss.

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CTO Agility Management Chief Technology Officer 8

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Find out how organizations are finding solutions to an ever-growing leader deficit affecting organizations worldwide. I challenge the crowd to remember what it takes to lead, follow, and mentor and the impact it has on the organization. The common thread through this keynote? Individual ownership. Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Globalization Leadership Conference Diversity 280

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

After an intense innovation workshop, the CTO of a globally-successful Chinese electronics supplier approached, unhappily. You emphasize the importance of collaborating with your customers to innovate," he moaned, "but our best customers don't want to collaborate. They're not interested in innovating with us.".

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CTO Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

What they don’t do well enough is reinvent and innovate. Sure, there are exceptions who are both visionary CEOs and innovators — Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos, for example — but there are very few companies that can stomach that sort of leadership. So if the CEO isn’t someone who can innovate, then who should?

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Entrepreneur CTO Business Model CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

Over the last 30 years I have served a large range of organizations as either a director or a trustee with the specific role of helping them exploit IT for competitive advantage. As many companies move from exclusively internal focused R&D to distributed-innovation systems (e.g., Generating Top-Line Growth.

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Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

And because organizational change tends to be driven by those who most acutely feel the pain, it’s often line managers who are the strongest champions for “talent tech”: innovations in how firms hire people, staff projects, evaluate performance, and develop talent. Talent tech raises urgency for further talent innovation.

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Technology Talent Management Process Management 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

Similar waves of innovative applications of technology (e.g., ERP systems, RFID , knowledge management, business intelligence) have washed over organizations. And the new waves of technology keep on coming: social, mobile, cloud, and Big Data promise to raise organizations'' competitive capabilities and dependency on IT further.

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Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

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

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

In the HBR article, " A Reverse Innovation Playbook " (April 2012) and our forthcoming book, Reverse Innovation , my co-author, Chris Trimble, and I elaborate on how western multinationals can overcome their dominant logic. For a quick idea of what that might be in your organization, take the following quiz.

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Chief Technology Officer CTO Constraint Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Technology innovation is not slowing down or leveling off, but ramping up — and businesses will soon face a barrage of new digital possibilities. IT is already being asked both to industrialize traditional infrastructures and systems fast to save costs, and to innovate customer experiences and operations with new digital technologies.

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CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.” The Future of Operations. Sponsored by GE Corporate.

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Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

New financial innovations enabled both historic global economic growth and cascading global financial failures. Humans have been able to organize large numbers of people into a common mission and execute amazing things, from conquering armies to astonishing constructions project like the pyramids.

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Agility Banking Supply Chain CTO 65

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

A PM with a high EQ has strong relationships within their organization and they have a keen sense of how to navigate both internal and external hurdles to ship a great product. Pro: Engineering can focus on coding without a lot of distraction; this tends to work well for Waterfall development shops with long lifecycles.

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Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. Specifically, what is the role of the leader in creating and sustaining an innovative organization? Or, as Hill puts it, “Conventional leadership won’t get you to innovation.”

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Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. Specifically, what is the role of the leader in creating and sustaining an innovative organization? Or, as Hill puts it, “Conventional leadership won’t get you to innovation.”

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Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Four years ago, Craig Hatkoff, co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, approached me about a brainstorm: an event recognizing and celebrating breakthrough innovators. When I suggested to Clayton Christensen that we partner with Hatkoff to create the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards , Clay’s response was : I trust you Whitney.

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Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

In this article we look at three very different organizations – IBM, Rich Products, and Intuit – and the three different paths they have taken in reconfiguring their operations for more customer intimacy, by changing methods, reengineering processes, and transforming culture. Then he meets with employees.

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Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2013

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. At Boeing, all enterprise technology (including digital) investments are managed by the CTO, which enables significant synergies. Convergence.

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CIO Organization Committee CTO 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2013

The classic model of an IT organization as a central point of control over all things data was never ideal, and today it simply doesn''t work. So, what''s an organization to do? With more flexibility and less bureaucratic overhead, users are able to be more innovative, more efficient, and are typically much more satisfied as well.

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Organization CTO CIO Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Leaders equate risk with potential failure, so organizations have morphed into hierarchical, fixed systems to constrain variability within an acceptable range that has become progressively narrower. Risk is a necessary feature of innovation. There is no safe innovation, only varying risk and reward. Understanding Risk.

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Dunning Project CTO Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

Yet, in a function driven by innovation and the uncertainties surrounding the application and implication of future technologies, not using scenarios is tantamount to management malpractice. Scenarios can help IT organizations create more resilient plans, practice for business climate changes, and better drive innovation.

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Scenario Planning CIO Planning Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

Edited excerpts: What brought you to Sephora and what was the state of its digital organization when you arrived? Sephora has always been an innovative global business, doing things a little differently, which is what drew me to the brand. That may seem easy, but anyone who’s run a large organization knows it’s no small feat.

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Brand CTO Marketing Retail 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

With Frederick''s Taylor invention of scientific management in the 1880s, and its subsequent assimilation into what we now consider modern management, organizations have used logic and rationality to the eliminate waste, to seek efficiency, and to transfer human knowledge to tools and processes. The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer.

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CTO Franchising CIO Short-term 8