Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Everyone knows leaders should delegate to ensure that they are working on the right projects and deliverables. Take on a symbolic project. But taking on a symbolic project or task can be a visible way of demonstrating your re-engagement, as well as helping the company and advancing your own learning goals. SCOTT WEBB/Unsplash.

Delegation 14

Delegation CTO Project Software 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Most organizations aren’t good at project management , and fewer still have a well-defined and structured protocol for engaging and managing agile talent other than contractually. We suggest a number of possible approaches for organization leaders to consider: Assign a roving chief technology officer or project manager.

CTO 8

CTO Agility Management Chief Technology Officer 8

Skip Prichard

APRIL 12, 2021

For example: someone brings bad news about a project. He was the CTO of a global manufacturing company. , and ‘What am I thinking?’ It starts with your body because your body is your first responder to everything that happens around you. What does your body do? Perhaps your breathing gets shallow and your hands clench.

Self-aware 134

Self-aware Leadership Team Open-book 134

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Old and Obsolete Infrastructure: Azeotrope, an aerospace firm in the Southeast, realized they were compromised when a number of clients complained of receiving invoices from Azeotrope that contained confidential information about their client’s orders and projects.

Bottom-up 97

Bottom-up Software Policies CIO 97

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. Subscribe now to get your subscription to this award-winning quarterly magazine. sas com Magazine can also be accessed online at www.sas.com/sascom.

Real Estate 66

Real Estate Magazine Rogers Long-term 66

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

They applied her discoveries to an Autodesk research project called Primordial, and at McManus’s urging, it was Lisa who presented the project to 400 top executives and clients. He had her sit next to the CEO, and enabled her to wander around and ask questions to everyone, including the CEO and the CTO.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain NGO CTO Learning-by-Doing 14

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. For example, Camille Fournier, former CTO of Rent the Runway, described the pain and reward of planning. Consider planning out a major project as a team or at least with one other person.

Planning 8

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

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.

Technology 11

Technology Talent Management Process Management 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

Can’t agree on how to prioritize projects, or on which deadlines need to shift? As Etsy CTO John Allspaw says , people are “the most expert in their own error. In a traditional team structure, conflicts can be escalated to the boss to resolve. Ask the team leader to step in and make a call.

Team 10

Team Management CTO Open-book 10

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.

Innovation 8

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.

Enterprise Architecture 8

Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 8

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.

Chief Technology Officer 13

Chief Technology Officer CTO Constraint Engineering 13

Rajesh Setty

AUGUST 15, 2008

Here’s what I found out from Pramati’s Co-founder & CTO Vijay Prasanna Pullur. We started this project about 8 weeks ago. You get to represent your country by predicting the real Olympic winners for various events. This game is developed by Pramati Technologies , the leading product development company, based in Hyderabad.

Licensing 28

Licensing CTO Participative Newsletter 28

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.

Agility 65

Agility Banking Supply Chain CTO 65

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

Many not-for-profit board members work on various special projects or white papers with disparate members of the staff. For example, the CTO of DonorsChoose is in regular contact with board member Jeff Weiner , the CEO of Linkedin.

White Paper 10

White Paper CTO Diversity Constraint 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

Given this failure to establish responsibility and accountability, it is also not surprising that most ECM projects fail, and a large percentage of IT projects generally fail to realize their potential or go well over budget. They have remained, instead, CTO''s. CIO''s have never broadly achieved their destiny.

CIO 8

CIO CFO Zero Based Budgeting Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

This should go without saying, but it’s vitally important to develop relationships with the CEO, business unit leaders, and other key executives to understand the company’s strategy, so that the innovation approach and projects you pursue align with overall corporate goals. That feels like a lot for 100 days, and it is.

Innovation 8

Innovation Planning Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2013

The following are a few key areas on which I''ve focused in my first 90 days that I think would be valuable for other new CIOs to consider as they plan for their own organizations'' future: Create a Sound Service and Project Management Framework. The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs).

CIO 8

CIO Positioning PPM Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

” Self-awareness: PMs must be self-aware so as to remain objective and avoid projecting their own preferences onto users of their products. 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.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

Show her that you''re willing to pick up the baton on important projects." 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." Volunteer for a committee they''re spearheading or offer to help with one of their pet projects.

CTO 10

CTO Case Study Career Project 10

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." Some of them have been filed by the company''s founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page.

CTO 8

CTO Apparel Ryan Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Company and unit leaders need to ensure that IT is in a leading position on all key digital projects. Different standards of project and portfolio management are also required with more flexibility in demand management and budgeting methods. The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs).

CIO 8

CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

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.

Audience 8

Audience Chief Technology Officer Open-book CTO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

’” Project confidence, but not too much. Even if it sometimes feels as if you’re in over your head, it’s important to project the right amount of confidence. ” 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.

Management 8

Management How To CTO Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

You may be able to get projects more easily approved or bend her ear when you have an idea.” ” You might help them get organized, shape their vision, strategy, and goals, or volunteer to tackle a particular project that would help them have a significant impact in a short period of time, says Watkins. Ankit became CTO.

CTO 8

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. Leave projects behind. He alerted his executive team that he would be gone, and tapped his co-founder and CTO as the final voice for any decisions that needed to be made.

Stress 11

Stress Supply Chain CTO Case Study 11

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

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. Trouble was, the launch violated eBay’s well-established corporate project-development processes.

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

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. Trouble was, the launch violated eBay’s well-established corporate project-development processes.

Education 8

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.

Dunning 8

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. Bring complete transparency.

CIO 8

CIO Budgeting Enterprise Architecture Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

It is no wonder that the CTO of this company said, “my engineers feel like short order cooks in the back of a diner.” Ultimately, this process became one of many small “ waterfalls ,” where work is passed from a product department to designers to engineering. This process is exactly what Agile was meant to eliminate.

Agility 8

Agility Engineering Software How To 8