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

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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. Sustainability is part of every professional’s job. Consider leaving a comment!

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2011

Next Monday I am going to be facilitating a panel discussion in Singapore on "Asia Fuelling Global Innovation." In an effort to increase the panel's interactivity, I wanted to offer readers a chance to ask Brown questions. Some of you might recall that he joined me on a November webinar, and told a great story about the Gillette Guard.

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

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

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

In the HBR article, " A Reverse Innovation Playbook " (April 2012) and our forthcoming book, Reverse Innovation , my co-author, Chris Trimble, and I elaborate on how western multinationals can overcome their dominant logic. Rich countries are the most technologically advanced.

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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

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. What if we applied the same thinking to innovation?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2017

The White House recently formed the Office of American Innovation, which has a stated focus on “implementing policies and scaling proven private-sector models to spur job creation and innovation.” presidential innovation fellow and a cofounder of 18F , a digital services office within the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

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. The bad news?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

As campaigner-in-chief, however, this President is demonstrably without peer. His "Obama for America" fundraising , analytics and "get out the vote" operation was a masterpiece of agile electoral innovation and entrepreneurship. We knew what to do," said Harper Reed, the campaign's Chief Technology Officer. "We

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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 28, 2012

Both launched media and customer firestorms; both shook top management to its core. HDS put Hu Yoshida , its highly-respected chief technology officer, in the limelight to attract high-level audiences. million followers. Imagine you're a major bank. Here's how: Get your experts out front.

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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

MAY 9, 2014

The redder the location, the more frequently it was trafficked: For chief technology officer Joe Lezon, the results were both helpful and surprising. “I don’t come in every morning and say, “How am I going to innovate today? ” Those sales are what’s most important to Yin.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

By Paul Clarke, Chief Technology Officer, Ocado. Like other disruptive technologies before it, AI has the potential to be a huge force for good, solving some of the large societal problems facing humanity. Microprocessor (CPU) with human brain. AI for Good.

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

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