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Technical Advisors: Every Startup Needs One

TechEmpower Innovation

Would you create contracts without an attorney? The Strategic Technical Advisor looks at the business and determines what makes sense from a technology perspective in the short-term and longer-terms. CTO Founder – Do they really still need a technical advisor? We’ve talked about this before in Startup CTO or Developer.

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Governance Charter for Managing New Product Investments

Huub Rutten

The most relevant Steering instrument is of course that he can set the financial targets for his reports, his board members like the CTO, CMO and the Commercial VPs. Note: this risk is per definition embedded in several Agile methodologies. Agile gives a lot of power to the developers, the shop floor.). And still powerless?

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Governance Charter for Managing New Product Investments

Huub Rutten

The most relevant Steering instrument is of course that he can set the financial targets for his reports, his board members like the CTO, CMO and the Commercial VPs. Note: this risk is per definition embedded in several Agile methodologies. Agile gives a lot of power to the developers, the shop floor.). And still powerless?

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Governance Charter for Managing New Product Investments

Huub Rutten

The most relevant Steering instrument is of course that he can set the financial targets for his reports, his board members like the CTO, CMO and the Commercial VPs. Note: this risk is per definition embedded in several Agile methodologies. Agile gives a lot of power to the developers, the shop floor.). And still powerless?

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Whose Job Is It to Manage Freelancers?

Harvard Business Review

Organizations in every industry and geography are increasingly indebted to external talent, whom we term agile talent , to augment their resources in strategic areas. The benefits are substantial: Agile talent provides organizations with greater flexibility, speed, and competitive insight. This is a big miss.

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Which U.S. Companies Are Doing the Most R&D in China and India?

Harvard Business Review

Six selected insights are presented here, tempered with our own experience in many years of consulting with global engineering initiatives. The quest to cut costs per engineer drives new entrants into using engineering and R&D resources from India and China. They consider global engineering to be strategic.

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A 5-Part Process for Using Technology to Improve Your Talent Management

Harvard Business Review

At the law firm Allen & Overy, the idea of replacing traditional, annual performance appraisals with a technology-enabled continuous feedback system did not come from human resources. Its highly skilled consultants were responding on a first-come, first-served basis and fielding more demands than they could handle.