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. People are the key, obviously.

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CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Recently, African business leaders have focused on innovation in the workplace and the imperative to nurture and grow talent on the continent. Know describes your skills ( i.e., factors of leadership, self-awareness, organizational culture, etc. ). Johannesburg, South Africa. Dan and I wanted to perform one last act of servant leading.

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Globalization Leadership Conference Diversity 276

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Businesses from top global firms to main street staples are looking into a future driven by new technology capabilities. New financial innovations enabled both historic global economic growth and cascading global financial failures. Many leadership skills required for digital success are similar to those taught to meeting facilitators.

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Agility Banking Supply Chain CTO 65

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

These core competencies are the baseline for any PM and the best PMs hone these skills over years of defining, shipping, and iterating on products. In fact, it is taking these skills and personality traits and applying them to the right company that will ultimately guarantee success. Pricing and revenue modeling. Not necessarily.

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Productivity Products Core Competence Management 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.” Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

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Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Those companies that do not continually innovate and adapt along with advances in technology and changes in society eventually see their products or services fade in importance. It requires adaptation skills to survive, let alone to thrive, in a new place. Growth demands that businesses view change as imperative, not optional.

Globalization 8

Globalization Long-term Diversity CTO 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

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.

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CIO Organization Committee CTO 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

As a result, in recent years, innovative ideas have been stifled and entire industries have fallen into the death spiral of cost/price cutting commoditization. Instead of risk = bad, leaders need to understand that today, calculated risk = innovation, meeting marketplace demands, leapfrogging competition and creating true profit.

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Dunning Project CTO Innovation 8