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. That''s a huge shift.

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Skip Prichard

APRIL 12, 2021

Leadership is shifting as we grapple with technology changes, shifting market realities, new business models, and unpredictable outside forces. I particularly enjoyed his focus on leadership starting with self, then relationship, team, and enterprise. And teams can be geographically dispersed. Thrive in a Hyper-Connected World.

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 13, 2020

So a good strategy is to learn about what automation solutions are out there, start experimenting and incorporating them into your workflows, and augment yourself using these technologies instead of rolling the dice and letting your employer make those decisions for you. “Automation is a game of tasks, not a game of occupations.”

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Blanchard Education CTO Technology 101

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 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

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. But for flat or self-managed teams, that’s not an option. But for flat or self-managed teams, that’s not an option. Traditionally hierarchical teams may benefit from them too.).

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Team Management CTO Open-book 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The other one of us cofounded 10x Management , a well-respected talent agency representing top-tier freelance programmers, designers, and other technology professionals. Organizations do better when managers have access to advice and best practice in leading mixed teams. Here’s the problem. Broaden the role of your “chiefs.”

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CTO Agility Management Chief Technology Officer 8

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Keeping in mind that these senior executives had similar education, training, and experiences, what could they do to “move the needle” in differing themselves from competitors who had almost the same diverse group of team members? Dan Evans & Jim Hotaling meet with N2Growth’s development team in Delhi. Conclusion.

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Globalization Leadership Conference Diversity 276

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

Only 31% of Fortune 100 boards currently have a director who is a CIO, even though technology is at the core of every business today. As Sheila Jordan, CIO at Symantec and director at FactSet, put it, “All companies are technology companies today. Technology is a lever to run the business, but also to change and grow.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. Once again, it has started in the bowels of technology companies and startups. ” The case of healthcare technology firm athenahealth is an instructive one. aleksandarvelasevic/Getty Images. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

He calls it “gypsy chefs,” a team that roams. What are the obstacles standing in the way of your team? To help disaster victims realize their own recovery, Field Ready teams begin by listening. Dara Dotz is removing obstacles to rapid recovery in humanitarian disasters with her NGO, Field Ready.

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Supply Chain NGO CTO Learning-by-Doing 14

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Businesses from top global firms to main street staples are looking into a future driven by new technology capabilities. Alignment Teams must work in a way that gets the best input from all members, and gains understanding and commitment around common goals, schedules, methods, and decisions/directions of all kinds.

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Agility Banking Supply Chain CTO 65

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. In this case, success starts with an aligned leadership team setting the direction for a culture of relationships. Sponsored by Google Analytics 360 Suite.

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CRM Execution CTO Metrics 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.

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Industry CTO Game Theory Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

That's often the case with founder-led companies in which the founder wants a team in which no one can emerge as a rival. This amplified the company's message about the importance of wireless technologies, even though McAdam (who later became CEO) would also preside over landline operations. Except for one thing.

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COO Wireless Ryan Chief Operating Officer 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Rich countries are the most technologically advanced. We should be able to meet their needs with cheap products based on older technology. We excel in product leadership and advanced technology — values inconsistent with the ultra-low-cost products poor countries require.

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Chief Technology Officer CTO Constraint Engineering 12

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. Having an in-house team is critical. We’re constantly evaluating new technologies and platforms.

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Brand CTO Marketing Retail 11

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. Their strategic use of information technology (IT) presaged the dot.com boom of the 1990s when the Internet made this kind of online ordering commonplace. Now, instead, at ING they say, "Here''s your team.

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Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

With a tsunami of new digital technologies all converging simultaneously — social, mobile, cloud, analytics and embedded devices — there has been, once again, a cry for corporate IT to radically change to enable the digital transformation of businesses. There is no time for complacency. It requires new modes of operation.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 24, 2021

The team made these claims: Programs will contain fewer errors. But emerging new technologies may obfuscate those responsibilities with an interesting hybrid solution. Karu Sankaralingam, PhD, is founder/CEO/CTO of Madison, WI-based SimpleMachines, Inc. It will take less time to write a correct program in Fortran.

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Software CTO Travel Library 98

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

. “The higher you go in an organization, the more you’re expected to make decisions on which you might not have direct experience or expertise,” says Roger Schwarz, an organizational psychologist and the author of Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams. “It’s a beginning of the shift in your career.” Face your fears.

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Management How To CTO Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Beyond shipping new features on a regular cadence and keeping the peace between engineering and the design team, the best PMs create products with strong user adoption that have exponential revenue growth and perhaps even disrupt an industry. Pro: Breakthrough technology can offer customers things they didn’t even know they needed.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

This might have backfired with an executive team that wasn’t as competent and as open to discussion, or if Sanofi had gone about it in a different way — in either case, they could have reacted as if she were going behind their backs. Capturing the Innovation Mind-Set at Bally Technologies. Innovation'

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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. Make sure your legal team can support you with the ability to advise on the specifics in this area. Clearly explain your priorities to your recruiting team.

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Globalization Long-term Diversity CTO 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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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. Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

In July 1999, I left a law firm for a business development role at a startup with a strange name — Akamai Technologies. Because of the phenomenal technology, timing and team, the Akamai IPO became one of the most successful IPOs of that era. So what actually happens inside a company on IPO day?

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IPO Lewin CTO Conference 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Do executives expect you to establish and incubate a growth businesses, act as a coach to existing teams, or focus on establishing a culture of innovation so that new ideas emerge organically? Are you expected to recruit a separate team from within and beyond the company? Some may involve developing specific capabilities.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

You and Your Team Series. For example, if you want clients for your CTO coaching business, then chief technology officers (and the people who know them) are your audience. It might feel embarrassing or weird to say you’re writing an article to be recognized for your contributions to a field, for instance. Business Writing.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

” The only person at RSA Ground who knew of Ken’s plan was the head of staffing, who’d agreed to assign him to various teams as a “temporary worker” over the next few days. Amazingly, in the afternoon Ken’s team did cut its time to 16 minutes. The other crew did 16. Let’s finish strong!”)

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

What most distinguishes innovation leadership, the book argues, is recognition that innovation is a “team sport,” not the act of a sole inventor. ” The team trucked the computers 360 miles from Burbank, California, to Emeryville, near San Francisco, setting the systems up over a weekend. Willing to Take Chances.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

What most distinguishes innovation leadership, the book argues, is recognition that innovation is a “team sport,” not the act of a sole inventor. ” The team trucked the computers 360 miles from Burbank, California, to Emeryville, near San Francisco, setting the systems up over a weekend. Willing to Take Chances.

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Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

In one large tech company, their product team focused significant upfront time writing small requirements (called “user stories”). It is no wonder that the CTO of this company said, “my engineers feel like short order cooks in the back of a diner.” Similarly, documentation often trumps working software.

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