Lead Change Blog

MARCH 24, 2017

I’ve got a bit of a soft spot for Apple’s Chief Technology Officer, Kevin Lynch. That’s a colossal amount of time, but what impresses me the most is the way in which he appears to have developed strong leadership skills from virtually nothing. I Embraced Failure. If I can become a leader from nothing, you can do the same.

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Chartered Management Institute

JULY 26, 2023

CMI’s chief technology officer Tavier Taylor presented the Champions category. Over the next few months we'll be focusing on the themes of Making Decisions and Developing People in particular. These awards celebrate inspirational people who have made a significant impact. Learn more about all the winners here. Interested?

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Chartered Management Institute

JULY 26, 2023

CMI’s chief technology officer Tavier Taylor presented the Champions category. Over the next few months we'll be focusing on the themes of Making Decisions and Developing People in particular. These awards celebrate inspirational people who have made a significant impact. Learn more about all the winners here. Interested?

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Additional content will be shared on Team Development and Management. We will use this co-creation to develop future programs and facilitated work sessions. o Processing into developing goals, sharing goals, and placing goal in context to IT teams. What’s the company’s goal? How does your department fit into that? 12:00-1:00.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Alas, as it stands, adequate event modeling, and risk and security assessments, are being stymied by a lack of shared intel on private company breaches, effectively hampering the development of comprehensive prevention and management strategies. About the Author.

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CEO Insider

JUNE 9, 2021

When instigating a project we expect things to develop from one place to another or introducing something new to a system or process and maybe to take […]. As you read the title of this article, I know this may feel somewhat counter intuitive. We have used the word when leading and managing “change” for decades.

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CEO Insider

JANUARY 26, 2022

Asking for Referrals is often a completely underutilized strategy as part of business development for an organization. If the referral strategy is incorporated, it is often done well by only a few individuals but never across the whole business. Managers of teams often do not inspire their teams to ask for referrals or guide them […].

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

HBR recently spoke with three experts — Bruce Brown, Chief Technology Officer of P&G, and HBR authors Scott Anthony and Erich Joachimsthaler — about the opportunities that are out there, and how understanding consumer context can help companies develop products at the right price points for every market.

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Management Craft

APRIL 18, 2014

Cory Bouck , Director of Organizational Development & Learning at Johnsonville Sausage; author of The Lens of Leadership : Being the Leader Others WANT to Follow. Dwayne Melancon, Chief Technology Officer, Tripwire, Inc. Another amazing book! Chris Grams, President, New Kind. “In You want a powerful team?

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Management Craft

APRIL 18, 2014

Cory Bouck , Director of Organizational Development & Learning at Johnsonville Sausage; author of The Lens of Leadership : Being the Leader Others WANT to Follow. Dwayne Melancon, Chief Technology Officer, Tripwire, Inc. Another amazing book! Chris Grams, President, New Kind. “In You want a powerful team?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

In recent years, however, the ability of our research ecosystem to sustain a leading global position has come into question, especially as new competitors emerge, such as China, which churns out huge numbers of new scientists and engineers and increases its research and development (R&D) expenditures at a 20% annual rate.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2012

Or think of Nathan Myhrvold, the former Chief Technology Officer for Microsoft, who said (and then confirmed to me in person for this article), "The top software developers are more productive than average software developers not by a factor of 10x or 100x or even 1,000x, but by 10,000x."

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

By Paul Clarke, Chief Technology Officer, Ocado. Industry 4.0 Taken a step further, what if the robotic paint shop understood what was required to paint a car, any car, and was able to adapt itself?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

We suggest a number of possible approaches for organization leaders to consider: Assign a roving chief technology officer or project manager. The chief is responsible for technical productivity, innovation, and the coaching and development of technical staff.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

Some organizations are already deploying elements of process change automation, while others are developing technologies that lay the foundation for it. A company called Sight Machine has developed machine-learning analytics to solve a variety of problems in complex assembly lines. Self-Adapting Processes Enhance Customization.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Because they try to repeat their past success formulas — the ones that work so well for them in developed markets. However, the company's initial steps to penetrate developing markets were unproductive. We should be able to meet their needs with cheap products based on older technology.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

June's Harvard Business Review features a story by Procter & Gamble Chief Technology Officer Bruce Brown and me on " How P&G Tripled Its Innovation Success Rate." Developing a common definition, and determining the types of innovation that matter to the company, can bring great clarity to the work that follows.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2011

As I meandered along the winding paths, my mind began to wander too, making connections, drawing insights, and developing ideas. I had lunch recently with Rajip, the Chief Technology Officer of a large investment bank. We need to reclaim them. This is my favorite, most dependable garden for creative ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

In particular, large companies want to partner with small firms that have developed advanced, game-changing technologies. For the hands-on managers, nearly 80% of CEOs took the most active role; in contrast, hands-off companies relied much more on their R&D head or chief technology officer.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

With access to Xerox's corporate office, Brown was able to engage senior management and help them see the power of the idea that the document was, as he puts it, "the most beautiful manifestation of a knowledge-sharing device." The top shops also excel at developing their leaders. Buy new businesses for the people, not the products.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2017

By Paul Clarke, Chief Technology Officer, Ocado. What they lack is the time, the technical expertise, and the financial investment required to develop a profitable end-to-end platform for online grocery delivery.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

Khoja recalls his chief technology officer, Eric Chapman, announcing a week into the search that they were going to have to choose their engineers in a different way. The protoypical Skunk Works was Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Projects (ADP) unit , a group characterized by autonomy, secrecy, and an elite identity.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2017

For the millions of employees of these companies, the idea management system functions a little like Facebook – people can post ideas, get votes, deliver or respond to feedback, and develop the ideas into innovations that make a difference to the company. He then turned the secretary’s idea into a standard practice.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2013

In a recent article , I suggested that the role of the CIO needs to shift from Chief Information Officer to a Chief Innovation Officer, due to the massive, rapid, multiple technology-driven transformations that are occurring today. CTOs must embrace the role of Chief Transformation Officer.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

Even most disheartening, however, is that the focus of these efforts seems to be on the production process—meaning the mechanical aspects of publishing text and image online— rather than helping journalists originate, report, and develop stories. As a marketing ploy the move clearly failed.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

Khoja recalls his chief technology officer, Eric Chapman, announcing a week into the search that they were going to have to choose their engineers in a different way. The protoypical Skunk Works was Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Projects (ADP) unit , a group characterized by autonomy, secrecy, and an elite identity.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

These drills, which coincidentally ran the week before Hurricane Sandy, allowed the DevOps (for Development Operations) team to keep the campaign's systems running while learning how to perform rapid disaster recovery response. "We We knew what to do," said Harper Reed, the campaign's Chief Technology Officer. "We

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

I recently participated in a spirited panel discussion with Bruce Brown, Procter & Gamble's Chief Technology Officer, and Erich Joachimsthaler, Vivaldi Partners' managing director and CEO. Global giants have to increasingly ask emerging markets branches to go from acting as local distributors to serving as local developers.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2016

Many people are stunned to learn that I didn’t meet my chief technology officer in person until 2014 — three years after he started working for me. As the CEO and founder of a remote-based software development company, I’ve learned that remote work creates better employees.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

With guidance from Paul English, chief technology officer of Kayak, we borrowed a common tool from business — professional virtual communities (PVCs) — and adapted it to leverage the wisdom of the crowds. Professional Development. For example, Dr. Bazile began reading GHDonline daily in 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

You can also make it clear that you’re eager and willing to help with any goals they are beginning to develop. When Shutterstock hired a new chief technology officer, Kiran Patel, the director of engineering, was eager to start things off on the right foot. “Think about it this way,” says Dillon.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

“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.” ” Schwarz adds: “You don’t need to be the person’s mentor, but you need to help the person develop.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

By Paul Clarke, Chief Technology Officer, Ocado. They will demand that all their products display this new level of smartness, develop a hunger for applications and services to get ever smarter, and expect them to “play smartly” with one another. Microprocessor (CPU) with human brain.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

So we developed a simple process to help people clarify their intentions and their positioning. 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 involves answering three basic questions: Why are you writing this?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

By Paul Clarke, Chief Technology Officer, Ocado. Across the retail landscape, a war is going on, and the battles are being fought on multiple fronts: business models, channels, brands, customers, technologies, and more.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

In contrast, another software entrepreneur found that a poor choice of a chief technology officer, who was assumed by others to be the unannounced number two, prevented his small startup from being acquired by a Silicon Valley giant, because the potential acquirer found the CTO incapable of backing up the CEO as the company grew.

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