Rajesh Setty

JANUARY 1, 2012

Most recently, Joe served as the CTO of SimpleGeo and now he is dedicating his time to Sprint.ly. Other things, such as Sprint.ly, ended up taking over most of my focus so I ended up talking to Sunil and his Mokriya team, whom I’ve been advising for a while now about taking it over. Here is the Q&A. RS: What next for lens.ly?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Keeping in mind that these senior executives had similar education, training, and experiences, what could they do to “move the needle” in differing themselves from competitors who had almost the same diverse group of team members? Dan Evans & Jim Hotaling meet with N2Growth’s development team in Delhi.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Organizations do better when managers have access to advice and best practice in leading mixed teams. How can organizations provide this support to managers of agile talent, external experts, and the teams they support? One approach that 10X has recommended is creating a roving CTO or project managers.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

He calls it “gypsy chefs,” a team that roams. McManus’s reframing of leadership — the leader as the sidekick, the intern as the superhero — embodies three powerful principles that enable innovation and discovery. What are the obstacles standing in the way of your team? Be the beginner. Grant agency.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

Starting a global engineering operation “essentially doubles the expense for 6-12 months,” says former Informatica CTO, James Markarian. ” Puri adds, “The local teams need to be empowered more to make their own decisions. In fact, costs go up initially. Pay the true cost and invest.”

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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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

While Agile began as a product development innovation, it sparked a corporate strategy and process revolution. By 2016, clients dreaded the disruptive monthly releases such that one large client had to deploy a 70-person crisis management team to manage the fallout of each monthly release.

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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. So innovation and learning will move from rich countries to poor countries. The lesson is clear.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Big companies’ struggles with innovation have been well documented — including by me. The term was coined by the first CTO of the US Government, Aneesh Chopra. Their thesis, which Chopra describes elegantly in his book Innovative State , is that the White House has the pull to sit people down at the table.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

New financial innovations enabled both historic global economic growth and cascading global financial failures. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

Similar waves of innovative applications of technology (e.g., Now, instead, at ING they say, "Here''s your team. And IT will need to continuously reduce its spending on "keeping the lights on" to free up resources and mindshare for innovation and problem solving. The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer.

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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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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. Make sure your legal team can support you with the ability to advise on the specifics in this area. Clearly explain your priorities to your recruiting team.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Beyond shipping new features on a regular cadence and keeping the peace between engineering and the design team, the best PMs create products with strong user adoption that have exponential revenue growth and perhaps even disrupt an industry. Core Competencies. Self-management: Being a PM can be incredibly stressful.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers. Over time, teams adopted an even more aggressive approach to software development called “ continuous delivery , ” a highly automated method that enables them to make many small changes per day.

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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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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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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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

Sephora has always been an innovative global business, doing things a little differently, which is what drew me to the brand. When you arrived, what did you see as the opportunities and priorities for increasing digital innovation? Having an in-house team is critical. Digital is often one of the many silos within a company.

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