CEO Insider

JUNE 9, 2021

We have used the word when leading and managing “change” for decades. 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.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The ongoing federal investigation of three Equifax C-suite managers for insider trading arose due to alleged stock dumping prior to the revelation of the company’s catastrophic cyber-attack. Andrew Douthwaite has over 17 years of technology experience joining VirtualArmour in 2007 as a senior engineer. About the Author.

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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. Groupings Mixed Teams & Functional Teams. What’s the company’s goal?

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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. Johna Campbell, Senior Manager of HR, Kollmorgen. “If Kathleen Goodman, Director, Strategy, Planning and Management at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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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. Johna Campbell, Senior Manager of HR, Kollmorgen. “If Kathleen Goodman, Director, Strategy, Planning and Management at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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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. Others are new to managing or stronger technically than as a supervisor. One approach that 10X has recommended is creating a roving CTO or project managers.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

The best managers hire smart people to work for them. How do you manage people who have more experience or more knowledge? It’s natural to feel worried or insecure about your ability to manage someone who has superior experience or knowhow. But what if your direct reports are smarter than you? What the Experts Say.

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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. Bolstered by this active involvement of top management, the success rate for meeting strategic objectives was a much more robust 68%, close to double that of the hands-off group. The bad news?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2017

But somewhere along the way, we recognized that they were based on definable pipelines and applied technology to manage those pipelines. Today you can put a corporate dashboard in place to manage them and tweak the settings to try to boost your results. million employees that have used an idea management system called Spigit.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

When demands arise in an industrial environment, managers and engineers must interrupt the automation to update the processes that make the machines go. Some organizations are already deploying elements of process change automation, while others are developing technologies that lay the foundation for it.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

Xerox's transition from copier and printer maker to document management conglomerate owes much to the thinking of cognitive scientist John Seeley Brown, a leading figure at Xerox's famed Palo Alto Research Center. 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

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

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

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

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. Managing for Metrics Rather than Mission.

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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

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. It requires rethinking reporting relationships, talent management, rotational assignments, compensation, and more.

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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

The Obama campaign's techniques, tools and technologies deserve detailed and dedicated attention from every organization that takes data-driven decisions seriously. There's not a brand manager, health care administrator, CMO or CIO who wouldn't benefit big-time from benchmarking their own operations to this campaign's.

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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. In business, PVCs are used for knowledge management and exchange across multiple organizations, industries, and geographies.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

How should you establish a positive, productive working relationship with your new manager? “Recognize that people do draw some impressions about you pretty quickly,” says Karen Dillon, coauthor of Competing Against Luck and the HBR Guide to Office Politics. . How do you get to know them without seeming like a kiss-up?

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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

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. AI for Good.

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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

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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