Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 13, 2022

GUEST POST from Art Inteligencia As digital transformation continues to become more commonplace in the modern business landscape, the role of the Chief Transformation Officer (CTO) has become increasingly important.

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HR Digest

MAY 9, 2024

According to Retail Dive , the company has returned to conversations with outlets like Macy’s, Foot Locker, and DSW to help make progress with innovation. The company made multiple changes to its leadership recently, with a new CTO, Amazon’s Dr Muge Erdirik Dogan, and a new CMO, Nicole Hubbard Graham, who was a returning employee.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Recently, African business leaders have focused on innovation in the workplace and the imperative to nurture and grow talent on the continent. Our last stop on this quest was to travel from Morocco to New Delhi, India, to meet our CTO, Jitendra Singh , his development team and members of the executive search team. Conclusion.

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Innovation Excellence

MARCH 9, 2018

I wasn’t going to take it, but it made me reflect on what a CTO does and, more important, what a great CTO should do in the company. A few months ago I was offered a position of a Chief Technology Officer in a startup company. Through my history in different high-tech companies (although this.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

JUNE 12, 2023

Today’s guest post is by Nikolay Gekht, CTO of Gehtsoft USA. Discover the Tell Tale Signs of Fake DevOps. Learn the three steps a leader should take to prevent Fake DevOps and the five principles of DevOps. Let’s say you want to know whether your DevOps works well. The answer is simple: measure outcomes!

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 10, 2024

Let’s explore why the 90-Day Career Portfolio Review, presented through a compelling portfolio metaphor often utilized by astute money managers who constantly are focused on ROI (Return on Investment), is the innovation Chief Talent Officers (CTO) and Chief Learning Officers (CLO) have been searching for.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 4, 2016

DisruptTV hosts chat it up with Deborah Mills-Scofield (VC, Professor and Entrepreneur), Paul Daugherty (CTO of Accenture), and Esteban Kolsky, (Principal and Founder of ThinkJar). A lively and über-intelligent conversation that's not to be missed. Continue reading →

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 13, 2023

The study found that CHROs with strong abilities and relationships, and who work in a supportive environment, are almost twice as likely to successfully integrate data, technology, and people, and four times more likely to have effective relationships and influence with other C-suite executives, including the CEO, CFO, CTO, and COO. “As

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CO2

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Case Study: Executive Performance Enhancement at a Global Corporation Situation : The Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of a multinational corporation, despite possessing exceptional technical and business acumen, was struggling to achieve the expected progress.

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

These are the people who will turn things around, lead the organization to innovate, and drive through challenges. Not only do they have the ability to innovate and solve issues in today’s climate, but they also have extraordinary emotional intelligence, or soft skills that enable them to thrive in an organization. That’s right.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Remove them and you will find more time to focus on innovation. Innovate quickly. Innovate constantly. We want to come out strong.”

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 8, 2019

Software developers have always been in high demand, but in 2019 the appetite for developers has just increased as new innovations and applications emerge. Shane Zilinskas is the Founder and CEO of Los Angeles software development agency ClearSummit , and the Co-Founder and CTO of TuneRegistry, a music rights SaaS platform.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

New financial innovations enabled both historic global economic growth and cascading global financial failures. He’s worked at the US Commerce Department, First Bank System, and Norwest Banks; was CTO of a real estate software firm; and led Wells Fargo servicing technology through the default crisis.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2013

These three change accelerators are what lie behind today''s avalanche of business transformation, and they are directly affecting the roles of CIO and CTO. And, just as the CIO''s role needs to change, so too does the CTO''s—from Chief Technology Officer to Chief Transformation Officer.

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Skip Prichard

APRIL 12, 2021

And it gives them the tools to create the kind of environment I just described, where individuals and teams collaborate closely, innovate, and adapt to changing circumstances while staying focused on the mission of the company. He was the CTO of a global manufacturing company. Comment on how this model has helped people.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

"Asia Fueling Global Innovation." That was the theme of the 2-hour panel discussion I moderated as part of a full-day ceremony celebrating the groundbreaking of Procter & Gamble's SGD 250m Innovation Centre in Singapore. Historically, 80 percent of its growth comes from innovation. Brown noted three specific challenges.

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Rajesh Setty

JANUARY 1, 2012

Most recently, Joe served as the CTO of SimpleGeo and now he is dedicating his time to Sprint.ly. It is one of those apps that you wish Flickr provided by default. They didn’t and that created an opportunity for Lens.ly. is a brain-child of Joe Stump, who is well known in Silicon Valley. Here is the Q&A.

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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."

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Four years ago, Craig Hatkoff, co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, approached me about a brainstorm: an event recognizing and celebrating breakthrough innovators. When I suggested to Clayton Christensen that we partner with Hatkoff to create the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards , Clay’s response was : I trust you Whitney.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

After an intense innovation workshop, the CTO of a globally-successful Chinese electronics supplier approached, unhappily. You emphasize the importance of collaborating with your customers to innovate," he moaned, "but our best customers don't want to collaborate. They're not interested in innovating with us.".

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Rajesh Setty

AUGUST 15, 2008

Here’s what I found out from Pramati’s Co-founder & CTO Vijay Prasanna Pullur. You get to represent your country by predicting the real Olympic winners for various events. This game is developed by Pramati Technologies , the leading product development company, based in Hyderabad. RS: Congratulations on the new Facebook game release.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2013

As mentioned above, this measure works very well for comparing projects that deliver hard benefits, but undermine the ability to invest in critical capabilities that have a long-term payoff horizon or highly innovative capabilities where the payoff is uncertain. The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. Specifically, what is the role of the leader in creating and sustaining an innovative organization? Or, as Hill puts it, “Conventional leadership won’t get you to innovation.”

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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. So innovation and learning will move from rich countries to poor countries. The lesson is clear.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Your energy and track record of successfully launching high-impact initiatives scored you a plum role heading up innovation. Expectations are high, but some skeptics in the organization feel that innovation is an overhyped buzzword that doesn’t justify being a separate function. Congratulations!

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2013

We at MIT CISR have found that enterprises are using one or more of three approaches to managing total digitization: convergence, coordination, or a separate digital innovation stacks approach. At Boeing, all enterprise technology (including digital) investments are managed by the CTO, which enables significant synergies. Convergence.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Big companies’ struggles with innovation have been well documented — including by me. The term was coined by the first CTO of the US Government, Aneesh Chopra. Their thesis, which Chopra describes elegantly in his book Innovative State , is that the White House has the pull to sit people down at the table.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

McManus’s reframing of leadership — the leader as the sidekick, the intern as the superhero — embodies three powerful principles that enable innovation and discovery. To recognize how innovative this approach is, just imagine telling your intern or most junior employee that come Monday, you are their intern.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. Specifically, what is the role of the leader in creating and sustaining an innovative organization? Or, as Hill puts it, “Conventional leadership won’t get you to innovation.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

If you had zilch , you'd have to be more innovative, more passionate, and more creative. For example, the CTO of DonorsChoose is in regular contact with board member Jeff Weiner , the CEO of Linkedin. You'd have to make the most of what you do have. And one asset that's always with you and too often ignored is your board.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

What they don’t do well enough is reinvent and innovate. Sure, there are exceptions who are both visionary CEOs and innovators — Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos, for example — but there are very few companies that can stomach that sort of leadership. So if the CEO isn’t someone who can innovate, then who should?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

Sephora has always been an innovative global business, doing things a little differently, which is what drew me to the brand. When you arrived, what did you see as the opportunities and priorities for increasing digital innovation? Julie Bornstein told HBR how she’s leading Sephora’s efforts online and offline.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

And because organizational change tends to be driven by those who most acutely feel the pain, it’s often line managers who are the strongest champions for “talent tech”: innovations in how firms hire people, staff projects, evaluate performance, and develop talent. Talent tech raises urgency for further talent innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

As many companies move from exclusively internal focused R&D to distributed-innovation systems (e.g., A new component of the IT function must be developed to support this category of work: the Distributed Innovation Group (DIG). online idea markets), the center of expertise for innovation support, and analysis across the enterprise.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

One approach that 10X has recommended is creating a roving CTO or project managers. In this sense it is similar to the roving CTO but focused more on the depth and effectiveness of the agile talent network. ” Similar in some respects to the CTO role is the role of the technical “chief.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

Yet, in a function driven by innovation and the uncertainties surrounding the application and implication of future technologies, not using scenarios is tantamount to management malpractice. Scenarios can help IT organizations create more resilient plans, practice for business climate changes, and better drive innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

As a result, in recent years, innovative ideas have been stifled and entire industries have fallen into the death spiral of cost/price cutting commoditization. Instead of risk = bad, leaders need to understand that today, calculated risk = innovation, meeting marketplace demands, leapfrogging competition and creating true profit.

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