Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2017

Get top-level guidance and metrics. What metrics will be used to determine how well your unit is doing at embracing learning and development, and how will that in turn affect your review? When I launched my first company in 2008 (CarZen, acquired by Liberty Mutual), one of my first hires was a CTO. Here’s how.

CTO 8

CTO Goal How To Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

This isn’t the fault of the technology or the CTO, who usually manages it. For most organizations, it’s calibrated to drive sales, which means sales conversions are the primary metric it follows. Because it involves software, many companies make it the CTO’s responsibility. Turning data into action.

CRM 8

CRM Execution CTO Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

We believe that CEOs need a partner for innovation inside their companies, someone who will create and defend processes, incentives, and metrics that encourage radical ideas and find new areas for growth. This is not a CTO role or a role that reports to the CEO. You do not work for the CEO, or alongside the CTO, CIO, and CFO.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur CTO Business Model CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2013

Projects can then be assessed on contribution to the needs of that pillar, rather than purely on financial metrics like ROI. The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. CIOs are being asked to arm employees with the capabilities required for success in a new, much more integrated and interdependent work environment. IT management'

Innovation 8

Innovation CIO ROI CTO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

Metrics cannot be focused on campaign-specific goals such as reach and conversion. It’s critical to make sure that the CIO, CTO, CMO, CDO, and other functional leaders do not work at cross-purposes as the company focuses on deeper, more direct relationships with its customers. But the functions overlap more and more.

Brand 8

Brand Disintermediation Media Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Defining and tracking success metrics. 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. The art of resource allocation (it is not a science!). Performing market assessments. Pricing and revenue modeling.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 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. .

Management 8

Management How To CTO Mentor 8