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. One approach that 10X has recommended is creating a roving CTO or project managers. Business reliance on the freelancer economy continues to grow.

CTO 8

CTO Agility Management Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

As promised , I asked Bruce Brown , P&G's CTO, one of the questions readers submitted last week: "As you look forward into the future what do you see as P&G's largest challenges, as seen through your eyes as CTO?" Marchesini didn't quite use this term, but it was how I described an example he provided. Non-consumption."

Innovation 15

Innovation CTO Senge Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

To find out, we developed a measure and coined the term Global Engineering Intensity (GEI) as the ratio of the headcount of R&D staff in India plus China to a company’s current annual R&D expense. Which companies allocate the highest proportion of that budget to engineering in China and India, specifically?

Offshoring 8

Offshoring CTO Company Engineering 8

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2019

” Although the event was a simple keynote, Dan and I took this as an opportunity to begin documenting our month-long quest to gain “the global leadership perspective.” Dan and I wanted to perform one last act of servant leading.

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Globalization Leadership Conference Diversity 276

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

This isn’t the fault of the technology or the CTO, who usually manages it. Because it involves software, many companies make it the CTO’s responsibility. As a consultant, I’ve seen dozens of CRM implementations in a wide range of organizations, and consistently find that they fail more than they succeed.

CRM 8

CRM Execution CTO Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2013

As mentioned above, this measure works very well for comparing projects that deliver hard benefits, but undermine the ability to invest in critical capabilities that have a long-term payoff horizon or highly innovative capabilities where the payoff is uncertain. The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. IT management'

Innovation 8

Innovation CIO ROI CTO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2018

A Harvard Business school study comparing immigrant-founded businesses to native-founded ones showed that immigrant-founded companies perform better in terms of employment growth over three- and six-year time horizons. Being unafraid of new challenges and proactively reaching for them is extremely important for long-term business survival.

Globalization 8

Globalization Long-term Diversity CTO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

They’re off the charts in terms of analyzing all sorts of things from manufacturing processes to stocks to nuclear particles. For example, Camille Fournier, former CTO of Rent the Runway, described the pain and reward of planning. But as you develop the habit of planning, the pain associated with it usually decreases. Absolutely.

Planning 8

Planning CTO Project Charisma 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Pro: Engineering can focus on coding without a lot of distraction; this tends to work well for Waterfall development shops with long lifecycles. Founder/CTO/CEO relationship with PM – Especially in earlier stage companies, it’s important to know how involved the Founder/CEO/CTO is in the product process.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

A clear understanding of where leaders’ priorities fail to match what the company is actually funding and rewarding will help you identify the biggest hurdles to achieving your longer-term agenda, and where short-term workarounds are required. Define your intent firmly but flexibly. Some may already be in progress.

Innovation 8

Innovation Planning Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

In financial terms, irresponsible creation and storage of information is like taking on unsecured, uncontrolled debt. Without accountability , unproductive behaviors creep in: spending time on CYA, finger-pointing, waiting for guidance, ignoring problems, or waiting too long to act. They have remained, instead, CTO''s.

CIO 8

CIO CFO Zero Based Budgeting Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

While the jury is still out on the long-term impact of many of the talent tech experiments we have witnessed, we have observed five core lessons from those firms that seem to be positioning themselves most effectively to reap their benefits: Talent tech adoption must be driven by business leaders, not the C-suite or corporate functions.

Technology 10

Technology Talent Management Process Management 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Charlie Hill , Distinguished Engineer and CTO, IBM Design, told us, “To deliver fundamentally different and better user experiences, designers want to take a step back and observe users actually doing their jobs. With this approach, cross-functional teams quickly develop prototypes to bounce off of customers.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

Doing this, in turn, will help them build more purposefully direct, longer term relationships with consumers and create more sustainable value. Above all, the goal cannot be one-time interaction, it should be meaningful long-term engagement and ideally opportunities for what Seth Godin, back in 2008, called “ Permission Marketing.”

Brand 8

Brand Disintermediation Media Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

The implication for IT leaders is that for horizontal technology, like collaboration and enterprise social networking, look past time and cost savings and track longer term, often unanticipated payoffs. The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. The measure of value requires external validation. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs).

CTO 8

CTO Franchising CIO Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

That requires clearly articulating trade-offs and options in terms of cost, time, and priorities. The CMO and CIO (and potentially the CTO) must bring complete transparency to the process. Goodwill, effort, and clarity will go a long way to bring the CIO and CMO together. Bring complete transparency.

CIO 8

CIO Budgeting Enterprise Architecture Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Frameworks for adaptive software development like Agile, have been around for a long time, and have manifested in many forms. It is no wonder that the CTO of this company said, “my engineers feel like short order cooks in the back of a diner.” Agile software development.

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Agility Engineering Software How To 8