Strategy Driven

AUGUST 17, 2011

The journey of the four decades, of growing from an entry-level professional to a leader among fellow professionals invariably calls for mastery over four things: the ability to efficiently manage resources, volume, complexity and finally, rainmaking. Just look at the ‘product of origin’ information on an Apple device.

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Self-aware Engineering Chief Technology Officer Learning-by-Doing 50

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. ” Get informed. But what if your direct reports are smarter than you?

Management 8

Management How To CTO Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

While business markets are obviously different from societies in many ways, they share more things in common, especially in today's networked world. Both launched media and customer firestorms; both shook top management to its core. It's what I call the Blanche Dubois approach to marketing: it "depends on the kindness of strangers."

How To 13

How To Chief Technology Officer Audience Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

As a marketing ploy the move clearly failed. Instead of debuting a new, tech-savvy firm that would, in the words of chief digital officer Anne Vasquez, be like “having a tech startup culture meet a legacy corporate culture,” it came off as buzzword-laden and naive. Managing for Metrics Rather than Mission.

Audience 9

Audience Chief Technology Officer Media Video 9

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." The pace of change in today's markets is relentless. It even goes so far as to ask business leaders to think about what could make their business obsolete.

Innovation 15

Innovation Chief Technology Officer Business Model Definition 15

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. IT on Steroids: The Benefits (and Risks) of Accelerating Technology.

CTO 8

CTO CIO Chief Technology Officer Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

“Retailers are all using scanner data to track what happened at the point of sale ,” says Sam Hui, an associate professor of marketing at NYU’s Stern School of Business. “That’s the really big thing: Identifying what a volume of people do over a period of time, and how you read that information.”

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Retail Chief Technology Officer Technology Merchandising 12