Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

I am always guilty of investing time in the potential tools, technologies and concepts that might lead to a different future that is within all of our job remits but how much, at what cost and what benefit to the jobs on hand. Is that due to it being “too risky” or the appetite for change, is less but due to what?

Innovation 225

Innovation Technical Review Report Software Review 225

TechEmpower Innovation

MARCH 4, 2024

Focusing on generative AI applications in a select few corporate functions can contribute to a significant portion of the technology's overall impact. This technological integration into software engineering not only enhances the productivity of development teams but also ensures that IT infrastructures are robust and reliable.

Generative AI 177

Generative AI Fractional CTO Software Review Software Engineering 177

hackerearth

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

The 2018 Gartner CIO Agenda Survey demonstrates that technological innovation and digitalization are changing the way CIOs work. Technological advances necessitate CINO roles. When the Internet arrived 20 years ago, it necessitated roles such as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Chief Information Officer (CIO).

Artificial Inteligence 61

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review CTO Survey 61

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 26, 2017

The day before the main event I was included in the Industry Analysts visit to the Siemens Technology Center, at Neuperlach in Munich. We were provided a variety of insights in different presentations and demonstrations, of the technology they are working upon. Thankfully the trigger was on my visit to their technology center.

Industry 187

Industry Technical Review Competition Fractional CTO 187

Planview

JULY 30, 2024

Technology companies want to deliver products better and faster, but as it is, demand often exceeds capacity, visibility is limited, rework is too common, and investments lack focus. In their research, Gene and Steven reviewed common efficiency design systems like Lean, Agile, DevOps, and the Toyota Production System. Their conclusion?

Technical Review 52

Technical Review CTO Learning Handbook 52

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.

Report 65

Report Technical Review Management Software Review 65

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. Scrum leads became the key change agents, supported by internal flow coaches and an external expert from Planview.

CTO 52

CTO Software Review Technical Review Software Developers 52

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.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Software Review Case Study Data 52

Planview

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Here’s the experience that the panelists and moderator bring to the table: Sejal Amin, Chief Technology Officer at Shutterstock, stepped into her role in November 2022, just when Shutterstock was making their data deal with OpenAI. When you do get to tools, build a smart tech stack. Start with the use case, not the tool.

Artificial Inteligence 65

Artificial Inteligence Fractional CTO Technical Review Generative AI 65

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.). By Daniel Burrus and Neil Smith. (In

Software Review 77

Software Review Fractional CTO CTO Software 77

Planview

DECEMBER 16, 2022

With the holiday season in full swing and a global recession predicted sometime in the new year, banks remain committed to investing in modernized technology through digital banking transformation efforts vs. traditional cost-cutting routes. “Retail banking customers are expecting more from their banks. The organization serves 14.4

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Technical Review Case Study Agile Artificial Inteligence 59

Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Genovese is an innovative IT professional with over 20 years of experience driving revenue and profit increases through value-enabling technologies for employers and clients around the world. I advise Enterprise CxO’s on Technology and Business Strategy, Digital Transformation, Innovation and Emerging Technology.

Fractional CTO 52

Fractional CTO Technical Review CTO Leadership 52

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. Engineering can always call on technical problems, unforeseen conditions and events and therefore lack of critical resources, to justify delay and scope changes.

Fractional CTO 52

Fractional CTO Management Roadmap Technical Review 52

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. Engineering can always call on technical problems, unforeseen conditions and events and therefore lack of critical resources, to justify delay and scope changes.

Fractional CTO 52

Fractional CTO Management Roadmap Technical Review 52

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. Engineering can always call on technical problems, unforeseen conditions and events and therefore lack of critical resources, to justify delay and scope changes.

Fractional CTO 52

Fractional CTO Management Roadmap Technical Review 52

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. Customer Engagement (e.g. Let's work together.

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Technical Review Software Review Data Underperforming Technical Team 31

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2013

Today''s IT leaders have known about the exponential growth of processing power, storage, and bandwidth, but like the frog, they didn''t notice the boiling point approaching because the change has happened over so many decades. No longer will this position''s relevance be tied to how well he or she can oversee the development of technology.

CTO 11

CTO Technical Review Disruption Technology 11

The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 16, 2019

A successful, Fortune 50, corporate innovation group has been continuously creating strategic innovations for almost two decades – through numerous leadership and organizational changes. They reported directly to the CTO. Techniques change, times change, they did too. The businesses were expected to do that themselves.

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System Innovation Groups Leadership 53

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. The technology understands forms at the edge, on-premises, or in the cloud. “Now,

Fractional CTO 52

Fractional CTO Software Review Artificial Inteligence Data 52

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. Nino Marakovic, CEO of Sapphire Ventures, pointed to the importance of maintaining CEO support throughout leadership changes.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Software Review Innovation Groups 40

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. Nino Marakovic, CEO of Sapphire Ventures, pointed to the importance of maintaining CEO support throughout leadership changes.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Software Review Innovation Groups 40

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. Nino Marakovic, CEO of Sapphire Ventures, pointed to the importance of maintaining CEO support throughout leadership changes.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Software Review Innovation Groups 40

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. Tech companies benefit greatly from holding hackathons for its developers where they have to think outside the box and prove their mettle under time and problem constraints. "It It happens. You can fix this.

Software Review 51

Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Fractional CTO Technical Review 51

CorporateIntel

MAY 15, 2014

He is also the CTO of SpaceX and the chief product architect of Tesla. He’s really, really changing the world. To be a pioneer in technology doesn’t just mean you have interesting ideas. In this never-ending discussion of whether we are in a tech bubble, I have grown weary of broad generalizations.

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Fractional CTO Technical Cofounder Technical Review CTO 40

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.),

Company 40

Company Innovation Fractional CTO CTO 40

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

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. Fast-iteration methodologies are a prerequisite, because talent tech has to be tailored to specific business needs and company context and culture.

Technology 14

Technology Fractional CTO Artificial Inteligence Management 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Rich countries are the most technologically advanced. We should be able to meet their needs with cheap products based on older technology. We excel in product leadership and advanced technology — values inconsistent with the ultra-low-cost products poor countries require.

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Underperforming Technical Team CTO Leadership Marketing 15

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." That approach allowed P&G to successfully launch Align , a product that was almost killed due to an initially low forecast.

CTO 15

CTO Technical Review Innovation Culture of Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

“When you’re a technical expert, you know your value to the organization,” says Wanda Wallace, President and CEO of Leadership Forum and author of Reaching the Top. ” Figuring out the answer to that question requires a change in mindset. “It’s a beginning of the shift in your career.”

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Fractional CTO CTO Management How To 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

In particular, large companies want to partner with small firms that have developed advanced, game-changing technologies. But many partnerships begin without due attention to what might go wrong, and the results show it. They focused on the entrepreneurial talent, not the technology.

Open Innovation 12

Open Innovation Technical Review CTO Underperforming Technical Team 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

Only 31% of Fortune 100 boards currently have a director who is a CIO, even though technology is at the core of every business today. As Sheila Jordan, CIO at Symantec and director at FactSet, put it, “All companies are technology companies today. Technology is a lever to run the business, but also to change and grow.”

Technology 13

Technology CTO Trends System 13

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." write down what you are about to do.

Fractional CTO 22

Fractional CTO CTO Underperforming Technical Team Handbook 22

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2011

I had lunch recently with Rajip, the Chief Technology Officer of a large investment bank. When we returned to his office after spending an hour together, he had received 138 new email messages. Some names and some details changed. We need to reclaim them. As we talked, the email dings kept ringing out. "My

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Fractional CTO CTO Disruption Creativity 19

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

Vandebroek, now the chief technology officer at Xerox, was a 34-year-old rising executive in 1996 when her husband, also a tech executive, died during a family camp out in the Adirondacks, leaving Vandebroek with three children, ages 8, 5, and 3. It’s a transition Sophie Vandebroek knows all too well.

CTO 13

CTO LEAN Exercises Technology 13

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. Does the quality of a product or service changes depending on culture? It depends on what "compromise on market research" means.

Marketing 15

Marketing CTO Technical Review Strategy 15

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.

Learning 13

Learning Artificial Inteligence CTO Software Review 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2017

By Paul Clarke, Chief Technology Officer, Ocado. Online grocery delivery requires dealing with irregularly shaped products with many different form factors, multiple storage temperature regimens, short shelf lives, and food technology constraints about what can be packed with what.

CTO 12

CTO Artificial Inteligence Data Technology 12