Information Playground

JUNE 4, 2015

I recently attended an all-hands meeting for the Office of the CTO sponsored by Chief Technology Officer John Roese.  Over the years the Office of the CTO has published advice on how to submit better ideas. This advice ranges from: The relevance of word count when submitting ideas.

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Roadmap CTO Tips Technical Review 28

Anaqua

MAY 2, 2018

By Erik Reeves, CTO of Anaqua. Becoming an expert in patent landscaping can help you understand your current and future competitive landscape, ‘whitespace’ gaps in technology that are opportunities for innovation and potential patents for acquisition or for strategic partnership.

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CTO Analysis Trends Technology 56

Planview

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

In the latest episode of the Mik + One podcast, Dr. Mik Kersten, Chief Technology Officer at Planview, sat down with Martin and Megha from McKinsey & Company to discuss their groundbreaking research on the benefits of the product operating model. Megha Sinha is a partner in McKinsey’s Bay Area office.

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Planview

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Notably, the data suggests a trend: elite performers are more inclined to report value to their CEO and business stakeholders, whereas lower performers tend to relay information to no one at all or their CIO/CTO at best.

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Report Technical Review Management Software Review 64

Huub Rutten

MARCH 3, 2021

Mostly innovation decisions “seem” to be based a rational argumentation, supported by market analysis, business case calculations, strategic scorecards, technology feasibility studies, etc. You know, we have meetings with 5 people, including our CEO and CTO. 70% is a lot!”.

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Huub Rutten

MARCH 3, 2021

Mostly innovation decisions “seem” to be based a rational argumentation, supported by market analysis, business case calculations, strategic scorecards, technology feasibility studies, etc. You know, we have meetings with 5 people, including our CEO and CTO. 70% is a lot!”.

CTO 52

CTO Project Meeting Marketing 52

Huub Rutten

MARCH 3, 2021

Mostly innovation decisions “seem” to be based a rational argumentation, supported by market analysis, business case calculations, strategic scorecards, technology feasibility studies, etc. You know, we have meetings with 5 people, including our CEO and CTO. 70% is a lot!”.

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CTO Project Meeting Marketing 52

Acuvate

APRIL 5, 2022

The company now uses Form Recognizer Azure with robotic process automation (RPA) to automate data extraction and quickly move it into back-end study and analysis systems. Every day, there are dozens of reports generated at any number of wells, and each report can be anywhere from 75 to 300 pages.

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Acuvate

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Outsourced Manufacturer A modern solution automating analysis, grade assignment and partner audits to establish a single source of truth for data generated by factories and external partners. Workplace Safety An intuitive solution to reduce hazards and mitigate risks for frontline workers via predictive insights and analysis.

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Technical Review Software Review Case Study Data 52

Michael Roberto

OCTOBER 3, 2016

described by Etsy CTO John Allspaw in an Etsy blog post, engineers (and now others at the company) who mess up are given the opportunity to give a detailed account of what they did, the effects they had, their expectations and assumptions, and what they think happened. The employees do more than admit a mistake in these PSA e-mails.

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CTO Company Case Study Culture 24

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

An analysis finds CMO pay declining while CTO pay skyrockets.

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CTO Technology Marketing Analysis 10

Corporate Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

In addition to internal R&D, startup-driven technology and business model innovation is an important contributor to achieving the corporate innovation goals. The CTO — and by extension the R&D organization — is intimately involved with the BASF, Siemens and Qualcomm CVC groups.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Software Review Innovation Groups 40

Corporate Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

In addition to internal R&D, startup-driven technology and business model innovation is an important contributor to achieving the corporate innovation goals. The CTO — and by extension the R&D organization — is intimately involved with the BASF, Siemens and Qualcomm CVC groups.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Software Review Innovation Groups 40

Corporate Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

In addition to internal R&D, startup-driven technology and business model innovation is an important contributor to achieving the corporate innovation goals. The CTO — and by extension the R&D organization — is intimately involved with the BASF, Siemens and Qualcomm CVC groups.

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Technical Review Software Review Innovation Groups 40

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Ellison will remain chairman of the board and will still serve as chief technology officer. While this analysis can’t technically speak to how co-CEO arrangements compare to just a single CEO, it isn’t encouraging for those sharing the role. Cue the Ellison retrospectives. Can co-CEOs work?

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CTO Strategic Management Leadership Analysis 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2013

It is important to note that this isn''t about ripping out and replacing an organization''s data storage and analysis systems. Rather, it is simply about changing how data storage and analysis are configured and how users interface with them. The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

In addition to spotting subpar fasteners, the analysis modifies Shannon’s manufacturing process midstream to prevent additional flawed parts from being produced. To maintain the quality of its products, Shannon uses Sight Machine’s tools to analyze the grain flow of the metal in the parts it produces. (In

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Learning Artificial Inteligence CTO Software Review 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2013

Then, using customer preference measurement methodologies like conjoint analysis, they survey senior business leaders to determine the relative criticality of each of these pillars. The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. Reinventing Corporate IT An HBR Insight Center. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs). IT management'

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CTO Innovation Project Survey 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

DIG is responsible for emerging technology, collaboration methods and technology (e.g., online idea markets), the center of expertise for innovation support, and analysis across the enterprise. The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. IT management Information & technology'

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CTO Guidelines Analysis Project 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

Or you could do a quick analysis of how much a specific change would save the company. Mike Subelsky, the co-founder and CTO at Staq, a tech start-up that makes software for digital advertising companies, spent most of his early career in roles with lots of responsibility, but not much authority. "I Don''t be a jerk.

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Leadership Case Study CTO Study 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2017

But what we learned from our analysis of all this data is that innovation is, indeed, a science. The key variable that we identified across all the companies in our analysis is the ideation rate, which we define as the number of ideas approved by management divided by the total number of active users in the system.

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Data Technical Review Ideation Software Review 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

An analysis revealed that a good portion of the work could be better done externally by highly skilled contractors, and in fact the team could dramatically increase its ability to provide value across the organization if it could access a specific set of external expertise. Often they were also the wrong demands.

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Technology Fractional CTO Artificial Inteligence Management 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Charlie Hill , Distinguished Engineer and CTO, IBM Design, told us, “To deliver fundamentally different and better user experiences, designers want to take a step back and observe users actually doing their jobs. With this approach, cross-functional teams quickly develop prototypes to bounce off of customers.

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Planview

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The combination of strategy, planning, and delivery insights in a single view is instrumental to driving digital transformation success and customer value, said Dr. Mik Kersten, Planview CTO and author of the book, Project to Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework.

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