Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

And, sadly, the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) reports that 60 percent of small companies are unable to sustain their business more than six months following a cyberattack. Leaders of small and medium size businesses (SMBs) often think their size lets them operate under the radar, as less attractive targets to bad guys.

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Bottom-up Software Policies CIO 91

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2011

Submit potential questions in the comments section below, and I'll pick one or two to ask Bruce, and report his response (along with a general wrap-up of the discussion) next week. Some of you might recall that he joined me on a November webinar, and told a great story about the Gillette Guard. Thanks for your participation!

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CTO Chief Technology Officer Senge Webinar 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2017

Nearly every manager who has reported to me has questioned the wisdom of spending time building talent when there are immediate business goals. When I launched my first company in 2008 (CarZen, acquired by Liberty Mutual), one of my first hires was a CTO. Discuss with your direct reports what kinds of learning they want to do and why.

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CTO Goal How To Learning-by-Doing 8

Skip Prichard

APRIL 12, 2021

He was the CTO of a global manufacturing company. His direct reports were afraid of setting him off and avoided bringing bad news to him. I had multiple wonderful experiences with this client, ‘John’. In many ways he was a strong leader with loyal followers, but he also had a temper that could get out of control.

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Self-aware Leadership Team Open-book 135

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

This is not a CTO role or a role that reports to the CEO. Report your progress directly to the Executive Chairman of the board of directors. You do not work for the CEO, or alongside the CTO, CIO, and CFO. The candidate is someone with a passion for taking calculated risks.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur CTO Business Model CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

This isn’t the fault of the technology or the CTO, who usually manages it. Because it involves software, many companies make it the CTO’s responsibility. As a consultant, I’ve seen dozens of CRM implementations in a wide range of organizations, and consistently find that they fail more than they succeed.

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CRM Execution CTO Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

But what if your direct reports are smarter than you? “There’s nothing wrong with asking for reassurance,” and the answers “will give you insight into your strengths and the development needs of your reports.” Case Study #1: Get educated about what your direct reports do. What the Experts Say.

Management 8

Management How To CTO Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

One cohort reports 0%–20% year-over-year annual revenue growth rates; the second is a faster-growing group experiencing 20%–200% year-over-year growth. For example, if a CRO or CTO leaves a young company, it can cripple the organization. Two distinct sets emerged.

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Morale Attrition Early Adopters Benchmarking 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2014

It may be tempting to bring a small amount of work with you — a bit of reading, a short report to draft — on the theory you’ll get it done on the plane or lounging on the beach. 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 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.”

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

According to the 2012 IDC/EMC report on the digital universe (PDF) , it''s doubling every two years. They have remained, instead, CTO''s. 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. Because no one is managing the store.

CIO 8

CIO CFO Zero Based Budgeting Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

Adds Maignan Wilkins: "You always need to take care of today''s business so that nobody — peers, direct reports, or those above you — questions your performance." "You still have to deliver results in your day job," says Jen Su. That''s the first step to getting ahead. Help your boss succeed.

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CTO Case Study Career Project 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

The message I take away from Kentaro-san’s report is the importance of managers. ” Yoshiyuki Taniguchi, the CTO, spoke up: “I like your thinking, Mayuka-san, but why not use technology to achieve the same result? . “Well, of course we could make headway with less money,” Mari said.

Case Study 8

Case Study Airlines COO CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Because Modernist Cuisine founder Nathan Myhrvold was a former Microsoftee (their first CTO and the founder of Microsoft Research), Heimendinger immediately reduced the perceived risk of hiring him by speaking their shared Microsoft language.

Innovation 11

Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

He set up a portal that asked employees to solve “my problems” and reported getting incredible answers from workers. He pushed for more transparency, adding 360-degree reviews for all employees and 360-degree feedback of his own work—he promised to resign if his own review dropped to a certain level.

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

He set up a portal that asked employees to solve “my problems” and reported getting incredible answers from workers. He pushed for more transparency, adding 360-degree reviews for all employees and 360-degree feedback of his own work—he promised to resign if his own review dropped to a certain level.

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2016

For example, Millennials were more likely than those in the Class of 1992 to report that their family of origin was a major source of satisfaction in their lives and that most of the important things that happen to them involve the family from which they came. ” ).

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Career CTO Class Influence 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

They must also agree where those critical capabilities will be located – in the COE or distributed across functions and locations — what the lines of reporting are, and whose budget will pay for them. The CMO and CIO (and potentially the CTO) must bring complete transparency to the process. Bring complete transparency.

CIO 8

CIO Budgeting Enterprise Architecture Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

Today, I make strategic and tactical technology decisions as the CTO of Atlantic Media. In Verizon''s Data Breach Investigations Report , 97% of breaches could have been avoided through easy, simple controls. In a media environment, security is often trumped by functionality, convenience, or cost.

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Company CTO Policies Tactics 8