Strategy Driven

MARCH 20, 2021

If you’ve been in the market for new business insight technology, such as a financial services analytics solution, the benefits of these are obvious. It’s usually the job of a bank’s chief financial officer (CFO), chief risk officer (CRO), or chief technology officer (CTO) to oversee tech implementation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

An analysis finds CMO pay declining while CTO pay skyrockets.

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Six Disciplines

APRIL 27, 2011

Skip Angel, Random Thoughts of a CTO). ” (Sam Decker, Decker Marketing). ” (Skip Angel, Random Thoughts of a CTO). “This is a guidebook, with practical business advice, that if followed, will enhance your business and provide solutions to every day small business problems.”

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 6, 2014

Some went on to dominate a market without any previous background in it. Guibert Englebienne, co-founder and CTO of Globant told me, “When you find unique talent, recruit it. Not less gut wrenching, but simpler. So what’s the secret? This goal was the foundation for success of the business.”

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CEO Insider

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The US labor market stands at a crossroads right now, with new and volatile crosswinds – including surging job openings, […]. “The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic” – so said management guru Peter Drucker, in a truism that speaks volumes in a post-Covid age.

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Over the past 27 years of my career in marketing, brand management and executive search + coaching, I’ve found time and again that organizations have blind-spots when hiring talent. This is true in boom times and recessions, from organizations being complacent through multiple successes, to newcomers coming in to take over the market.

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Emotional Intelligence CTO Stress Exit Strategy 74

CEO Insider

APRIL 20, 2022

Despite the pandemic, executive recruiters face one of the strongest candidate markets in the past twenty years. You have more negotiating power than ever for executive compensation. When it comes to executive equity compensation, do you know that there are differences between employee equity from a corporation and an LLC?

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 13, 2020

It doesn’t matter if you are working in a package sorting center or a marketing department.) The fourth mistake that I want to caution business leaders about is the instinct to delegate automation knowledge and technology fluency to IT or a CTO role. The more you are able to increase your productivity, the more you increase your value.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

SAS – Providing organizations with THE POWER TO KNOW ® SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Consider these 11 ideas from the Radical Times Webcast series by SAS Marketing Director Jonathan Hornby: 1. We want to come out strong.”

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Skip Prichard

APRIL 12, 2021

Leadership is shifting as we grapple with technology changes, shifting market realities, new business models, and unpredictable outside forces. He was the CTO of a global manufacturing company. Thrive in a Hyper-Connected World. Comment on how this model has helped people. I had multiple wonderful experiences with this client, ‘John’.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Properly patched, up-to-date infrastructure is not going to stand in the way of the accounts payable clerk or chief marketing officer who clicks on the attachment to an email from some bad actor posing as a trusted vendor or prospective customer. Of greater consequence than obsolescence and patch management to Tech Debt 2.0

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Bottom-up Software Policies CIO 101

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?" That's how Deb Henretta , the head of P&G's Asia business, described how she thought about approaching Asian markets.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

This isn’t the fault of the technology or the CTO, who usually manages it. Measuring Marketing Insights. Because it involves software, many companies make it the CTO’s responsibility. Each model is clearly stated and universally understood, internally and in the market. Insight Center.

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CRM Execution CTO Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

Companies that can successfully implement Continuous Development throughout their organization will find dramatic strategic benefits, including: Faster time-to-market. And that satisfaction leads to a more attractive work environment in a competitive talent market. Customers enjoy the benefit of new features sooner.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

This is not a CTO role or a role that reports to the CEO. You have the charm, charisma, enthusiasm, hard work, and marketing mind to encourage and drive your teams to think anything is possible. This means managing entrepreneurs who can navigate trends and market behaviors. ” You believe anything is possible.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Needing a way to capture and document this event, I recruited Dan Evans , our Chief Marketing Officer , to join me on a journey that would span over 42,000 miles on four continents ( 11 countries total, including stops ) to interview and record sessions with experts in the science and art of leadership. Casablanca, Morocco.

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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. Research & development Emerging markets East and Southeast Asia' In fact, costs go up initially. Pay the true cost and invest.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Western multinationals — especially the most successful ones — consistently struggle to achieve their growth targets in emerging markets. Because they try to repeat their past success formulas — the ones that work so well for them in developed markets. It is impossible to earn healthy profits in emerging markets.

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Chief Technology Officer CTO Constraint Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2011

The news had just hit that Danny Lewin — the co-founder of Akamai Technologies, its charismatic CTO, a former commando in the Israeli Special Forces, and MIT mathematics genius who led the company from a math class to an IPO and a market cap of $30 billion — had suddenly died. For all of us, Danny was our CTO and visionary.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Performing market assessments. Managing tight deadlines, revenue targets, market demands, prioritization conflicts, and resource constraints all at once is not for the faint of heart. So, what should you consider if you’re thinking of pursuing a PM role? Running design sprints. Feature prioritization and roadmap planning.

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Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

Boards that look more like their target market have a better understanding of their target market. The Teach for America board includes teachers, and parents of kids in public schools — members who represent diverse markets. It's actually a very simple performance indicator.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

online idea markets), the center of expertise for innovation support, and analysis across the enterprise. The spread of capitalism and the associated growth in emerging markets provide organizations of all sizes with an opportunity to participate in globalization. The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO at HubSpot and an immigrant to the United States, writes about many of the changes he made on an ongoing basis in order to fit in, from getting rid of his accent, to changing his appearance, and even temporarily changing his name to David. They orient their firm around the needs of their home market alone.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Cloud-based services are also now being bought directly by functions like HR and marketing, resulting in IT losing its control over technology purchase within the organization. But with this essentially IT-centric model, dynamic connections with global business units, marketing, brands and external partners remain difficult to develop.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

For example, if a CRO or CTO leaves a young company, it can cripple the organization. As Geoffrey Moore pointed out in his groundbreaking book, Crossing the Chasm , companies need to market to one segment of customers at a time, starting with the early adopters before leveraging that segment to launch into the next.

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Morale Attrition Early Adopters Benchmarking 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Look for ways to stretch the boundaries of current innovation efforts, but remember you are not the CEO or CTO. Understanding how customers make their choices often reveals a completely different set of competitors, redefining the market in which your company operates, its role in the market, and the basis for business success.

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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." They said, ''This kid is a fad. I said at the meeting: ''This kid might outlive RIM.'' Everyone laughed."

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

” Generally speaking, CIO director prospects will have served as a CIO or CTO of a large organization whose market sector is relevant to the company of the board doing the recruiting. The CIO is a system integrator, so he or she envisions all the critical connections.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. 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. Reinventing Corporate IT An HBR Insight Center. A Board Director''s Perspective on What IT Has to Get Right.

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Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 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.”

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Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

.” This research had two advantages: One, it made the hiring process go more smoothly and, two, it has helped Emily manage Heather, her new CTO. “I understand our application architecture at a high level and I can communicate to my CTO what I need done, but how it gets done is up to her,” she says.

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Management How To CTO Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This seems to be a key question on the minds of not just marketers, but company strategists these days. This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. How well do you know your customers?

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2017

You can place advertising or news alerts on your app to ensure you always get the best results from any new marketing strategies. You’ll also want to make sure your company’s CTO takes a look at the infographic below. Designed by Global App Testing.

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Brand CTO Download Marketing Strategy 64

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

Sephora, the cosmetics retailer, has been widely recognized as a leader in integrating its digital marketing efforts into its overall strategy. As one sign of that, Sephora has a single executive who serves as both chief marketing officer and chief digital officer. Marketing and internal IT expertise are both at the table.

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Brand CTO Marketing Retail 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Determined to feature a global perspective, the authors include narratives of executives within India-based IT company HCL Technologies, the German division of online auctioneer eBay, and the marketing division of automaker Volkswagen in Europe. Willing to Take Chances.

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Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

Brand marketers must demand change from their own media-buying ecosystem. To better understand the long-term branding assets they can create through their marketing efforts, brands will need to shift their metrics of success to focus on aggregate reach, engaged reach, time spent, and true “followership” (or even subscribers).

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Brand Disintermediation Media Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Determined to feature a global perspective, the authors include narratives of executives within India-based IT company HCL Technologies, the German division of online auctioneer eBay, and the marketing division of automaker Volkswagen in Europe. Willing to Take Chances.

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Education Innovation Execution Content 8