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The CTO: Evolving The Role of Chief Technology Officers

N2Growth Blog

Shifts in CTO Responsibilities Over Time The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) role has evolved dramatically over the past few decades, driven by rapid technological advancements and shifting business landscapes. With technology evolving rapidly, CTOs must stay on top of the latest trends to keep their organizations ahead.

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Comparing Interim Executives & Consultants: Aligning with Your Strategic Objectives

N2Growth Blog

Their cross-industry experience equips them with best practices and innovative approaches tailored to each organization’s unique needs. For example, consider a technology company undergoing a digital transformation. Their role is to assess, advise, and recommend strategies without necessarily being involved in implementation.

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Data From 3.5 Million Employees Shows How Innovation Really Works

Harvard Business Review

But somewhere along the way, we recognized that they were based on definable pipelines and applied technology to manage those pipelines. What if we applied the same thinking to innovation? After all, innovation, like marketing and sales, is a pipeline. Once you put innovation into a system like this, you can track everything.

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A Hands-Off Approach to Open Innovation Doesn’t Work

Harvard Business Review

For many business leaders — 85%, according to a recent Accenture survey — such open innovation is critical to their strategic plans. In particular, large companies want to partner with small firms that have developed advanced, game-changing technologies. Hardly an encouraging finding.

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Answering Your Questions About P&G and Innovation

Harvard Business Review

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." First, some of the ways that P&G reduces risk on individual projects are generally good innovation practices for everyone.

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My New Book, Double the Love - Now Available on Amazon!

Management Craft

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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To Innovate, Play with Pieces Off the Game Board

Harvard Business Review

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. Truly game-changing institutional innovations are unlikely to come about from internalizing the rules and making the moves that allowed others to win.