Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

Can’t agree on how to prioritize projects, or on which deadlines need to shift? Advise the manager to give them some feedback. But for flat or self-managed teams, that’s not an option. Self-managed teams must identify different ways to find and address day-to-day conflicts.

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Team Management CTO Open-book 10

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. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

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Technology Talent Management Process Management 11

Skip Prichard

APRIL 12, 2021

For example: someone brings bad news about a project. Typically, this behavior doesn’t produce optimal results, and the leader needs to find a way to manage that inner state differently, so that they create a different leadership presence. He was the CTO of a global manufacturing company. , and ‘What am I thinking?’

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Self-aware Leadership Team Open-book 134

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

One retail CTO summed it up well at a recent SAS event when he said, “We don’t want to just struggle through and be hanging by our fingertips when the economy recovers. With that understanding, focus on how you will continuously recycle resources from invention to deployment, management, offloading and back. We want to come out strong.”

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Real Estate Magazine Rogers Long-term 66

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Self-management: Being a PM can be incredibly stressful. Company Fit.

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Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

The best managers hire smart people to work for them. How do you manage people who have more experience or more knowledge? It’s natural to feel worried or insecure about your ability to manage someone who has superior experience or knowhow. ’” Project confidence, but not too much. What the Experts Say.

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Management How To CTO Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

But when it comes to their own time management or laying out a plan to get a big project done, they balk. Based on my experience with time management clients, here are some tough truths about planning that every individual needs to accept before moving forward. Planning takes longer than expected (and so does the work).

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Planning CTO Project Charisma 8

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Measurement Each IT Director will have working knowledge of the ‘ 7 Steps to High Performance Teams ’ this will be illustrated through content discussions about the model and each director determining where an existing team in on a project and steps to move the team to the next step. CTO – Why are we here? Introduce Mike Cardus.

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Team Building Team CTO Leadership 129

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2013

Some of the key challenges: Companies don''t identify the very best ideas for investment because most capital allocation processes start with business partners'' existing ideas about projects to fund. Push that a bit further and what most CIOs say is that those ideas are in the form of project requests from business partners.

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Innovation CIO ROI CTO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

For mature, large-scale, multinational companies, there is a virtuous cycle of efficiency improvements that frees up resources, which can then be deployed for growth and innovation projects. The biggest opportunities for these companies are simplification and horizontal integration projects. The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer.

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Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

Because no one is managing the store. The day-to-day financial activity within the organization is then executed by management and staff, who shoulder the responsibility — delegated to them by the enterprise as part of their job — to account for funds, both incoming and outgoing.

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CIO CFO Zero Based Budgeting Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2013

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. Our Project Management Office is therefore enthusiastically pursuing new PPM capabilities that will enhance the transparency of our decision making processes.

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CIO Positioning PPM Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

Show her that you''re willing to pick up the baton on important projects." Find out what keeps your manager up at night and propose solutions to those problems. It doesn''t have to be an intense, months-long project. Another way to prove your potential is to take on projects in the " white space."

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CTO Case Study Career Project 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Immediate and radical change within small teams spearheading projects from the bottom up. Radical goals such as this one apply constraints to a project — and the constraints illuminate novel ways of thinking. Paliwal not only thwarted the coup, he supported Lawande's leadership and even made him the new CTO.

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Chief Technology Officer CTO Constraint Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Digital leaders, those companies that have managed their digital transformations successfully, all show common characteristics in the way they have shaped their IT to work differently with the business. Company and unit leaders need to ensure that IT is in a leading position on all key digital projects. Research points to the latter.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

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. The nature of large-scale digital is, I believe, something new in human endeavor.

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Agility Banking Supply Chain CTO 65

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

For a time, having a BlackBerry was the ultimate status symbol in business, as well as the ultimate addiction: One former global account manager recalls a CTO referring to the blinking red light as "digital heroin." He’s not going to last,''" recalls former senior business development manager Vincent Washington. "I

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CTO Apparel Ryan Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

In other words, how do you manage up to someone who’s just jumped a level above you and who might’ve been a friend? In some ways, you’ll have to treat your new boss like you would a manager you’ve never met before , says Michael Watkins, author of The First 90 Days. Does your relationship need to change?

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CTO Case Study Learning Curve Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2014

Let key colleagues and clients know that you will be away, and either pause your projects or ready them for a temporary handover. Employees need to have time away from managers so that they can grow,” says Edinger. Leave projects behind. Manage your re-entry. Plan ahead and define “emergency”.

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Stress Supply Chain CTO Case Study 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

For example, if you want clients for your CTO coaching business, then chief technology officers (and the people who know them) are your audience. People do not share things that make them look or feel stupid, project an undesirable image, or are hard to explain. No matter what your goals are, your writing must reach the right audience.

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Audience Chief Technology Officer Open-book CTO 8

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. After three years of work, the project was abandoned after missing several milestones. They were flat.”

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. Blindsided by news that Cars Toons was behind schedule, coauthor Brandeau had to figure out how to finish both projects on time with limited computing resources while also limiting friction among the forces.

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Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. At Harvard Business School’s General Management Program. Trouble was, the launch violated eBay’s well-established corporate project-development processes. Join the conversation.

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Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Execution risk: A wrong execution model or poor execution can make a project run too long and cost too much, leading to a total loss of focus and a reduction in value creation. It also comes from not adequately considering the organization''s energy, skill, and policies to accomplish the project.

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Dunning Project CTO Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

The CMO and CIO (and potentially the CTO) must bring complete transparency to the process. Don’t be afraid to fail, but keep the projects and teams small enough at first to both fail and learn quickly. Collaboration IT management Marketing' Bring complete transparency. But there are no short cuts to getting it right?and

CIO 8

CIO Budgeting Enterprise Architecture Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

When Agile software development was born in 2001, it articulated a set of four critical principles to elevate the craft of software development and improve engineering and product manager motivation. It is no wonder that the CTO of this company said, “my engineers feel like short order cooks in the back of a diner.”

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Agility Engineering Software How To 8