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.

Blanchard 101

Blanchard Education CTO Technology 101

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

As technology has evolved over time from main frame to client server to the Internet and now the cloud, the impact of a new Tech Debt 2.0 CEOs and CFOs managing technology may not recognize tech debt building up in their SMBs—because it is not revealed in monthly variance reports or other accounting controls. An excerpt is below.

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Bottom-up Software Policies CIO 99

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

At the law firm Allen & Overy, the idea of replacing traditional, annual performance appraisals with a technology-enabled continuous feedback system did not come from human resources. Working with new technologies in new and nimbler ways creates the need for additional innovation in talent practices. Walker and Walker/Getty Images.

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Technology Talent Management Process Management 11

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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Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

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. Technology can probably breathe new life into them.

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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. We suggest a number of possible approaches for organization leaders to consider: Assign a roving chief technology officer or project manager.

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CTO Agility Management Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. Once again, it has started in the bowels of technology companies and startups.

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Agility Development Organization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

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. They followed a sequence that resulted in new products or major updates to products every year or two. Insight Center.

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Productivity Products Customer Intimacy 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

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?" Simplifying technology and new business models." Brown noted three specific challenges.

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Innovation CTO Senge Globalization 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Rich countries are the most technologically advanced. 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.

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Chief Technology Officer CTO Constraint Engineering 13

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. Every discussion on the role of IT and CIOs should start with the question: "What are the potential uses of this technology that will guarantee we stay in business?" Generating Top-Line Growth.

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Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

But Apple’s most impressive achievement on display at yesterday’s announcement was not a technological feat — although the technology on display was certainly impressive. The term was coined by the first CTO of the US Government, Aneesh Chopra. Apple Collaboration Technology' When the President calls, you answer.

Industry 9

Industry CTO Game Theory Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

Information Technology Changes the Way You Compete" was a trailblazing HBR article by Warren McFarlan back in the early 1980s. It told how American Airlines and others had introduced systems to help their customers choose their products and services. Similar waves of innovative applications of technology (e.g.,

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Businesses from top global firms to main street staples are looking into a future driven by new technology capabilities. organizational structure (such decentralizing and aligning technology to business areas more effectively), and governance. Levine is an expert on lean and agile software development and information technology.

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Agility Banking Supply Chain CTO 65

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

It''s time for CIOs to move beyond their roles as chief technology officers, and embrace the name with all of its implications: Chief Information Officer. At the same time, technology budgets are static or contracting, and non-IT execs want more attention to cost-cutting. They have remained, instead, CTO''s.

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CIO CFO Zero Based Budgeting Chief Technology Officer 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.” Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

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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. VP: myPicks Beijing 2008 was developed by Pramati Technologies in collaboration with Sun Microsystems.

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Licensing CTO Participative Newsletter 28

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

In search of a better solution, the airline turned to PASSUR Aerospace, a provider of decision-support technologies for the aviation industry. In search of a faster, cheaper way, Sears Holdings turned to the technologies and practices of big data. The technologies are new and in some cases exotic.

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Management Airlines Supply Chain CTO 8

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 6, 2015

Earlier this year, Emily Burns, founder and CEO of Learnivore, the Boston-based start-up that helps people find local instructors, coaches, and classes, set out to hire a chief technology officer. “I learned how to gauge the quality of the work product even if I can’t do the work myself,” she says.

Management 8

Management How To CTO Mentor 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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Audience Chief Technology Officer Open-book CTO 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

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.

Globalization 8

Globalization Long-term Diversity CTO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2013

What do the following items have in common: credit cards and streaming or recorded music, robots for production, CAD systems, telephone networks, digital games, computers in products like cars and vacuum cleaners, sensors, and video consoles used in remote mining? Answer: They are all digital and connectable. Convergence.

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CIO Organization Committee CTO 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

E-commerce players were still figuring things out, and brick-and-mortar stores weren’t really experimenting with technology. Yet based on my own experiences, I believed we could use technology to make shopping more efficient. We later re-launched the website, taking it far beyond product specs and shopping carts.

Brand 11

Brand CTO Marketing Retail 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

IT professionals need to recognize and embrace the Serendipity Economy in order to better understand the impact of technology investments, improve employee engagement and drive business transformation. Microsoft provides productivity tools that create presentations quickly and efficiently. Technology investments work the same way.

CTO 8

CTO Franchising CIO Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

Yet, in a function driven by innovation and the uncertainties surrounding the application and implication of future technologies, not using scenarios is tantamount to management malpractice. These threats and opportunities require a clear way to test how they will play out against various social, technological, and economic assumptions.

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Scenario Planning CIO Planning Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

Disintermediating traditional media pipes to the audience compels brands to maximize ownership of consumer touch points to deliver content, experiences, and products. Technology can power smarter media placements and dynamic creative strategies at scale. Brands must align process and technology to make this happen. ” Data.

Brand 8

Brand Disintermediation Media Metrics 8

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. How to Brand a Next-Generation Product. Willing to Take Chances.

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Much as I want to believe that a glaringly good idea will stand on its merits, I have come to realize that just like any product or service, ideas require good marketing if they’re going to reach their intended customers. Capturing the Innovation Mind-Set at Bally Technologies. When You’re Innovating, Think Inside the Box.

Innovation 11

Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Adoption risk: Adopting technologies or responding to market, business, and technology trends too quickly or too slowly; reactively or over thought, without considering how non-technical implications or unintended consequences contribute adoption risk. The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs).

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Dunning Project CTO Innovation 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. How to Brand a Next-Generation Product. Willing to Take Chances.

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

CIOs, tasked with turning technology into revenue, are themselves pounding the table demanding better requirements for Big Data initiatives. Most CMOs have woken up to the fact that technology is fundamentally changing what marketers do and we can’t treat IT like a back-office function,” says Jonathan Becher, CMO of SAP.

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CIO Budgeting Enterprise Architecture Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

These companies have become agile in name only, as the process they’ve put in place often ends up hurting engineering motivation and productivity. In one large Fortune 100 company, the head of digital products said to us, “we’re not allowed to question the Agile process.” Agile software development.

Agility 8

Agility Engineering Software How To 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

Apple continued to run with little discernable change, except that Cook's black open collar shirts substituted for Jobs's black turtleneck sweaters on the product announcement stage. Verizon Communications CEO Ivan Seidenberg appointed Lowell McAdam, head of Verizon Wireless, as COO and successor. Differentiation: What skills are you missing?

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COO Wireless Ryan Chief Operating Officer 16