TechEmpower Innovation

JULY 24, 2023

Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. Content Management How often will the application’s content need to change? Who will be doing the changes? Reporting can be endless!

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Planview

MARCH 27, 2025

Step 1: Start With a Small-Scale Pilot The journey began in 2022 when Vanguard initiated a pilot within their Chief Technology Office and IT department, focusing on improving the software developer experience. There was initial resistance to measuring the full software development lifecycle beyond engineering cycle time.

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Daniel Burrus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

(In this blog series on how elevating cognitive performance is a game changer for organizations, I’ve invited Neil Smith, CTO at Think Outcomes , to join me in writing on this important topic due to his expertise and the cognitive performance software his firm has created.). AI and cognitive computing have grabbed headlines.

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Acuvate

DECEMBER 31, 2022

It’s a time of reminiscing, celebration, and gratitude at Acuvate too, where we have had a game changing year. We set out last January to build for some of the world’s most complex problems, using tech for good and helping SLG and enterprises prepare for a more sustainable future with the combined power of technology and empathy.

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Planview

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The State of Value Stream Management Report 2023 , in particular, stands out due to its inclusivity, drawing data from respondents across various organizational sizes, ranging from nimble startups with 1-99 employees to massive enterprises boasting 50,000+ personnel.

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hackerearth

MARCH 31, 2017

The talent management and performance review processes are certainly not what we’d refer to as all in a day’s work. These high-energy events are much more than people working collaboratively on a brilliant idea using software and hardware to solve a problem. They can use hackathons as tools to bring about meaningful change.

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Huub Rutten

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

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. There are so many layers between the Board room and for example a software developer or an industrial designer. And still powerless? Dependent on goodwill.

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Huub Rutten

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

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. There are so many layers between the Board room and for example a software developer or an industrial designer. And still powerless? Dependent on goodwill.

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Huub Rutten

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

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. There are so many layers between the Board room and for example a software developer or an industrial designer. And still powerless? Dependent on goodwill.

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Acuvate

APRIL 5, 2022

As compliance and security requirements change between organizations, industries, and regions, organizations amass a ton of documents in different formats, complicating the extraction of useful, meaningful information. Documents continue to be the primary mode of communication between organizations.

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Taivara

AUGUST 23, 2018

First, customers are dynamic – characterized by constant change. They change relationships both within their households and with retailers. and change old ones. They change addresses – both email and home. Next, you will need an enabling technology. Senior business leaders must be committed to this strategy.

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CorporateIntel

MAY 15, 2014

He already did consumer software engineering as his opening act as a cofounder of PayPal. He is also the CTO of SpaceX and the chief product architect of Tesla. He’s really, really changing the world. If there is a possible next Steve Jobs or Bill Gates, it could be him. Not Elon Musk. Why write about Elon Musk?

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Corporate Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

In this post I review important lessons learned by CVCs that have been operating for many years and several economic cycles and best practices being used by newer CVCs. They invest in different sectors: such as software and services for USAA Ventures, and materials (and more) for BASF Venture Capital. and Europe. They invest globally.

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Corporate Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

In this post I review important lessons learned by CVCs that have been operating for many years and several economic cycles and best practices being used by newer CVCs. They invest in different sectors: such as software and services for USAA Ventures, and materials (and more) for BASF Venture Capital. and Europe. They invest globally.

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Corporate Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

In this post I review important lessons learned by CVCs that have been operating for many years and several economic cycles and best practices being used by newer CVCs. They invest in different sectors: such as software and services for USAA Ventures, and materials (and more) for BASF Venture Capital. and Europe. They invest globally.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Gradual and accommodating change throughout the company from the top down, and 2. Immediate and radical change within small teams spearheading projects from the bottom up. It's a dramatic action based on the simple idea that changes in scenary help bring about changes in thinking. The lesson is clear.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

Fast Company uses their own (undisclosed) methodology to come up with a list of what are probably the companies most changing the world at any given time. This metric is not fully reliable however, as it may improve because a major competitor moved backward (product recalls, quality and delivery issues, poor user reviews, etc.),

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2012

Or think of Nathan Myhrvold, the former Chief Technology Officer for Microsoft, who said (and then confirmed to me in person for this article), "The top software developers are more productive than average software developers not by a factor of 10x or 100x or even 1,000x, but by 10,000x."

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

The methodology is Continuous Development, which, like agile, began as a software development methodology. Rather than improving software in one large batch, updates are made continuously, piece-by-piece, enabling software code to be delivered to customers as soon as it is completed and tested. Fix errors faster.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

In this article we look at three very different organizations – IBM, Rich Products, and Intuit – and the three different paths they have taken in reconfiguring their operations for more customer intimacy, by changing methods, reengineering processes, and transforming culture. The rise of cloud computing changed all this.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

But although today’s factories use automated workflows, process change is still mostly manual. In our survey (not yet publicly published) of almost 170 industrial organizations, 96% of respondents agreed or strongly agreed that machine learning is automating process-change management inside their organization.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Does your relationship need to change? The first is that your former peer “can’t quite accept the new role, pretends that nothing will change, and continues to act like your friend,” which might sound OK for you but “is not good for the group.” Accept that things will change. Marion Barraud for HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

” This is changing with the emergence of location analytics. Both have signed on with Prism Skylabs , a software company, to map in-store customer behavior. The redder the location, the more frequently it was trafficked: For chief technology officer Joe Lezon, the results were both helpful and surprising.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

By Paul Clarke, Chief Technology Officer, Ocado. These applications could see us achieving world-changing results. AI could even help us reverse the impact of challenges such as climate change, pollution, and poverty. Code for Life now has over 135,000 users spread across nearly 100 countries.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

While both measures are less than perfect, and we recognize that many companies use Eastern Europe and South American engineering sites, the GEI works well to demonstrate the diversity of industries—it isn’t just software and IT—with a significant portion of their R&D overseas. The top thirty companies are shown below.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2016

Many people are stunned to learn that I didn’t meet my chief technology officer in person until 2014 — three years after he started working for me. As the CEO and founder of a remote-based software development company, I’ve learned that remote work creates better employees.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

Maybe employees will soon barge through the doors and board shuttle busses to the BMW dealerships, software bugs be damned. We watched the green numbers change — just simple rows of green numbers. Our co-founder and CTO, Danny Lewin, had suddenly turned from a struggling graduate student to a staggeringly wealthy man.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2017

By Paul Clarke, Chief Technology Officer, Ocado. Think of it as a highly configurable Software as a Service (SaaS) platform that also includes the swarm robotics hardware technology needed to build automated warehouses. Read more about how the Ocado Smart Platform can transform your retail business.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

In search of a faster, cheaper way, Sears Holdings turned to the technologies and practices of big data. This is simply a group of inexpensive commodity servers whose activities are coordinated by an emerging software framework called Hadoop (named after a toy elephant in the household of Doug Cutting, one of its developers).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

Using software, like the apps on new “smart” TVs, or hardware, like Roku or Chromecast devices, any consumer with a strong Internet connection can now bypass the disintermediated MSO. Brand marketers must demand change from their own media-buying ecosystem. Organization and structure.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

To do that, both executives will need to change how they work?and Most CMOs have woken up to the fact that technology is fundamentally changing what marketers do and we can’t treat IT like a back-office function,” says Jonathan Becher, CMO of SAP. especially given that worldwide, data is growing at 40 percent per year.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

The 70-year-old will stay on as the software giant’s executive chairman and also its chief technology officer — the latter title a formalization of a role he was already playing. Basically, not much has changed at Oracle , except that the company’s governance structure has gotten more complicated.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

Technology as well, deployed at one point in time, and deemed useless, may reveal value as personal, business and technological circumstances change. Serendipity may enter at any point in the value web, and it may change the configuration of the value web at any time. The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer.

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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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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

P&G''s Connect and Develop ) to increase velocity and quality of their new product introductions, the IT infrastructure support for this business process change is critical. DIG is responsible for emerging technology, collaboration methods and technology (e.g., The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

IT is particularly prone to this when trying to force fit everything into a previously acquired hardware or software platform, regardless of its applicability to the problem being addressed. If IT projects have to fail or a strategy needs to change, failing fast helps prevent losing big. The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

With a tsunami of new digital technologies all converging simultaneously — social, mobile, cloud, analytics and embedded devices — there has been, once again, a cry for corporate IT to radically change to enable the digital transformation of businesses. The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer.

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