Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2013

These three change accelerators are what lie behind today''s avalanche of business transformation, and they are directly affecting the roles of CIO and CTO. And, just as the CIO''s role needs to change, so too does the CTO''s—from Chief Technology Officer to Chief Transformation Officer.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 1, 2017

Everyone knows the roles and responsibilities for a CEO, CFO and CTO but change the wording and a different picture emerges. Neal recaps, “The connection leaders have with their employees has been found to increase productivity and performance. Imagine, for example, a CEO tasked as the Chief Engagement Officer.”

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Leadership Development Development Leadership CTO 264

Skip Prichard

MARCH 13, 2020

A good place to start is to take the initiative: You can either wait for your employer to replace you with one or several automation solutions, or you can incorporate automation into your workflows in order to become more productive. The more you are able to increase your productivity, the more you increase your value.

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Blanchard Education CTO Technology 101

Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

People can’t handle constant change unless they’re highly involved with the direction of the product, company and team. Stress—especially from internal reorgs, upheaval, high turnover at the executive level and more can cause people to look elsewhere thinking that the grass is greener. It’s human nature.

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Emotional Intelligence CTO Stress Exit Strategy 74

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.” Aron Vellekoop Len/Getty Images. Core Competencies.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

We have become aware of vulnerabilities involving certain NETGEAR products and have issued a security advisory. We plan to release firmware updates that fix all vulnerabilities for all affected products that are within the security support period. An excerpt is below. How would your CFO or CIO handle this?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2017

When I launched my first company in 2008 (CarZen, acquired by Liberty Mutual), one of my first hires was a CTO. I made him the CTO’s protégé, and had the CTO spend time teaching and evaluating him. I made him the CTO’s protégé, and had the CTO spend time teaching and evaluating him.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

To learn more about SAS, its products and services, visit www.sas.com. 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. Improve productivity. sas com Magazine can also be accessed online at www.sas.com/sascom.

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Real Estate Magazine Rogers Long-term 66

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

We have a unique perch from which to observe how well organizations are “tuned” to create a productive and positive work environment for freelancers and other agile talent. One approach that 10X has recommended is creating a roving CTO or project managers. Broaden the role of your “chiefs.”

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CTO Agility Management Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Now, every company of any scale and in any sector wants to be closer to its customers, to understand them more deeply, and to tailor their products and services to serve them more precisely. They followed a sequence that resulted in new products or major updates to products every year or two. They faced a culture clash, however.

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Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

After an intense innovation workshop, the CTO of a globally-successful Chinese electronics supplier approached, unhappily. Ask, instead, what makes you the best innovation partners they could possibly have in this product category? The CTO grimaced. They know you're a terrific vendor. Begin with what works," I added.

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CTO Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. While Agile began as a product development innovation, it sparked a corporate strategy and process revolution. Maximize engineering productivity.

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Agility Development Organization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

Encourage openness to productive conflict. A technique called Planning Poker has opened my team’s eyes to just how productive having dissenting viewpoints can be. As Etsy CTO John Allspaw says , people are “the most expert in their own error. Traditionally hierarchical teams may benefit from them too.). Add to Cart.

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Team Management CTO Open-book 10

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. Her vision is that if you invest in grooming budding leaders at offshore locations, you can permanently solve your cost and capacity problems in product development.

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Offshoring CTO Company Engineering 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?" Brown noted three specific challenges. First, the general challenge of growth. P&G is about an $80 billion company.

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Innovation CTO Senge Globalization 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Once you accept them and make planning a habit, you can harness its power to create a happier, healthier, and more productive life. For example, Camille Fournier, former CTO of Rent the Runway, described the pain and reward of planning. Planning will trigger pain — at least initially. But that sends them in a downward spiral.

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Planning CTO Project Charisma 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Sales of our existing products and services will increase as emerging economies grow and consumer incomes rise. The best approach to emerging markets is to export stripped-down versions of existing products and services, and sell them at lower prices. We should be able to meet their needs with cheap products based on older technology.

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Chief Technology Officer CTO Constraint Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

Select for love of the product or service. That check or those hours are a proxy for measuring the passion someone has for our product or service. Are your for-profit board members passionate about your product or service? Do they ever even use your product or service? Here are three ideas to get you started: 1.

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White Paper CTO Diversity Constraint 10

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Chief-Technology-Officer CTO, and Human Resources Business Partners within the IT Team and Mike will serve as the Accountability-Team to check-in and coach the directors for completion of the 100 day action plans. CTO – Why are we here? CTO has some parting words. What are the expected outcomes (big picture) of this?

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Team Building Team CTO Leadership 129

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2013

As we''ve noted in our previous blog , senior business partners might not be that knowledgeable about what actually drives productivity on the front lines. rapid new product roll-out). The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. Reinventing Corporate IT An HBR Insight Center. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs). IT management'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

I''m often struck by how many articles exclusively focus on new or emerging technology and their productivity or efficiency effects. P&G''s Connect and Develop ) to increase velocity and quality of their new product introductions, the IT infrastructure support for this business process change is critical. Generating Top-Line Growth.

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Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 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.” In other words, they need to use less stuff.

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Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Rajesh Setty

AUGUST 15, 2008

This game is developed by Pramati Technologies , the leading product development company, based in Hyderabad. Here’s what I found out from Pramati’s Co-founder & CTO Vijay Prasanna Pullur. You get to represent your country by predicting the real Olympic winners for various events. Can you tell us what is this application?

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Licensing CTO Participative Newsletter 28

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

The term was coined by the first CTO of the US Government, Aneesh Chopra. It’s an expert use of product design, network effects, and game theory all wrapped up in one move. But there are some things you need to be big in order to achieve. What Apple demonstrated yesterday was its power as an “impatient convener.”.

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Industry CTO Game Theory Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

It told how American Airlines and others had introduced systems to help their customers choose their products and services. In the old days (the 1980s and 1990s), the IT organization was all about managing the technology itself: choosing which vendor''s product to buy, then cobbling the products together.

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Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

We need this kind of leadership from top to bottom on in our enterprises: on each team, in each role, at every level; whether organized around project or products, agile scrum or lean start-up; whether teams are fully co-located or spread out globally; whether focused on apps, apis, or IoT. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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Agility Banking Supply Chain CTO 65

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

A couple of years ago, Sears Holdings came to the conclusion that it needed to generate greater value from the huge amounts of customer, product, and promotion data it collected from its Sears, Craftsman, and Lands' End brands. Integrate Data Into Products, or Get Left Behind. Case #1: Using Big Data to Improve Predictions. More >>.

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Management Airlines Supply Chain CTO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

Ironically, autonomy in corporate computing does not necessarily lead to greater productivity. In fact, our laissez faire approach to computer education — little guidance, hands-off, freedom to make decisions — leads to lower productivity absent a system for accountability. They have remained, instead, CTO''s.

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CIO CFO Zero Based Budgeting Chief Technology Officer 8

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. Companies tend to define their world based on the categories in which they compete or the products they offer. Some of these might be very specific initiatives, like identifying product-market fit for a new technology.

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Innovation Planning Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

They’re sophisticated buyers of products and services, and they use a similar lens to decide whether to read something: They calculate whether it will provide value to them. Bad Writing Is Destroying Your Company’s Productivity. Most people understand this already, at least intellectually. You and Your Team Series.

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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. Being unafraid of new challenges and proactively reaching for them is extremely important for long-term business survival.

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Globalization Long-term Diversity CTO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

. “I learned how to gauge the quality of the work product even if I can’t do the work myself,” she says. ” 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.

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Management How To CTO Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2014

These moments of quiet and disconnection help your brain realize that you can have that separation and still have that productivity and happiness,” says Achor. The productivity of a vacation is you’re trying to lower your stress, raise your levels of happiness, and create novelty for the brain,” says Achor. “If

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Stress Supply Chain CTO Case Study 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

As a VP charged with talent tech innovation at a large consumer products company told us: “We started our digital transformation top-down, creating a sense of urgency and cascading it down. One CTO we spoke to tells a story about an AI project that “hit the wall” despite a sequence of green lights.

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Technology Talent Management Process Management 11

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2017

Benefit 2: You’ll sell more products or services. In most instances, they only have to click a couple of buttons to spend their cash, so you’ll sell more products or services. You’ll also want to make sure your company’s CTO takes a look at the infographic below. Benefit 3: You’ll have direct access to your customers.

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Brand CTO Download Marketing Strategy 64

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Ankit became CTO. They didn’t have an explicit discussion about the division of labor, but Akshay dealt with external activities like fundraising, Ankit focused on code, and they made product strategy decisions jointly. Ankit trusted Akshay completely but admits that he struggled with his increasingly subordinate role.

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CTO Case Study Learning Curve Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

For example, you might be able to identify a customer need that isn''t being met by your company''s current product line, and propose a new one. "Every organization has needs that nobody is paying attention to, or people are actively ignoring," Maignan Wilkins says. Case study #2: Take any leadership opportunity you can get.

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