eZassi

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Innovation Leadership – Strategies for Executives Despite a focus on disruptive innovation, collaboration is lacking between business units, and the necessary structures between corporate entities and partners are often missing, causing breakdowns in the innovation process and missed opportunities.

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Innovation 360 Group

APRIL 3, 2017

Peter is a T-Shaped computer innovator using disruptive technology driving break-through projects as well as training, teaching and leading workshops for some of the most well known brands in the world. Disruptive technology. Computer Science, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. Background. System Thinking.

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Planview

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Harnessing Digital Disruption will Drive Innovation Cross Industries. The skinny: Peter Gunder, Chief Business Development Officer at American Family Insurance, talks about the impact digitalization has had on the insurance company, and how the focus of agile innovation has helped accelerate its digitization efforts.

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Acuvate

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The rise of social networking, mobile, data and cloud technology has changed every aspect of our personal and business lives, making them more connected by the day. Most of these technologies undergo enhancements as better technologies arise leading to constant disruption.

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Peer Insight

APRIL 15, 2020

And preservation of operating capital until the extent of the disruption was more clear. “I I think we have only 5 of our ~65 people remaining in the office, and we have a plan to get them able to work from home this week. Direct Hit : Sectors like hospitality and restaurants that are being completely disrupted.

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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. She’s led her team in bringing AI to the market throughout this turbulent year.

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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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Planview

AUGUST 6, 2015

Recently, Spigit CTO James Gardner shared some of his expert tips on using crowdsourcing software to build your innovation pipeline. Says Gardner, “An alternative to this is to look for new ideas that can make incremental or operational improvements, to complement those disruptive ideas. Here’s what we learned.

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Planview

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Lloyds understood that more than simply surging digital and technological solutioning would be needed to differentiate and disrupt their market. “You can do as much Cloud conversion as you want, as much technology focus, as much digitalization as you want.

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Anaqua

MARCH 30, 2018

by Erik Reeves, CTO of Anaqua. With the pace of innovation increasing every day, senior executives and Boards need to be mindful of potential risks, including catastrophic disruption; as well as emergent opportunities. We are awash in data – beyond our capacity to absorb and integrate intelligently.

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It's Saul Connected

JUNE 1, 2015

Last year we had Guy Wollaert, Chief Technology Officer Coca Cola Company, as a storyteller. Leaders must make it safer and easier to explore and test new business models, even disruptive ones. We’ve had over 300 storytellers at our summits over ten years. Every year it’s the same. He was great.

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Wazoku

MARCH 2, 2018

In a recent conversation with the CTO of a global law firm, he shared with me that their innovation strategy is really “a PR strategy for recruitment and talent purposes.” If you are a senior business leader reading this article, ask yourself, honestly, what is your innovation activity for? Not the corporate answer. Some honesty.

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Matthew Griffin

JUNE 1, 2015

Every time I visit a client with a head office in a skyscraper I look out of the window at the ant sized individuals forty or so stories below. Disruption is now closer to your door than it’s ever been before. Disrupt yourself before someone else does and lead the new market rather than being relegated to being a footnote.

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Values Centered Innovation

MAY 14, 2020

Charlie Hill, Chief Technology Officer of IBM Design, says it well: "Everything is a prototype. This Jolt has reminded me of my capability to adapt and overcome, which enables me to disrupt myself, and continue to innovate myself. that can always be improved!". I use my personal values to guide my actions and decisions.

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Matthew Griffin

JUNE 9, 2015

If you step back thirty years it would be hard to see how anything could usurp or upend any of the world’s largest corporations but today every single one of them from Boeing, GM and IBM to AT&T, Citi and Sears are having to pivot their businesses and find new ways to adapt to the increasing amount of disruption undermining their businesses.

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Values Centered Innovation

MAY 22, 2020

Charlie Hill, Chief Technology Officer of IBM Design, says it well: "Everything is a prototype. This Jolt has reminded me of my capability to adapt and overcome, which enables me to disrupt myself, and continue to innovate myself. that can always be improved!". I use my personal values to guide my actions and decisions.

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The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 16, 2019

They reported directly to the CTO. Since 1997, there have been numerous waves of innovation theories, models and practices such as Disruption from Below , Open Innovation , Lead User , Design Thinking , Test & Learn , Product-Market Fit , Agile/Lean Innovation , Startup Collaboration , to name a few of the more prominent waves.

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hackerearth

MARCH 31, 2017

If you're inside a company and convinced you have the best thing and if only you could get visibility in front of your CTO—then an internal hackathon is a great way of enticing the internal developers to skip to the top of the list, get an exclusive peak of data or even incubation,” says Delyn Simmons from Mashery. Disrupt HR!

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CorporateIntel

MAY 15, 2014

He is also the CTO of SpaceX and the chief product architect of Tesla. He makes disruption make sense. Not Elon Musk. He started not one subsequent company, but two — Tesla Motors and SpaceX — and leads both as CEO. Not exactly a path to retirement. He’s really, really changing the world. The work he does is important.

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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. Often, it's only when our lives are forcibly disrupted that we slow down long enough to learn. We need to reclaim them.

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Corporate Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Björn Heinz, investment manager at BASF Venture Capital, summarizes his group’s mission as “identifying and supporting startups that are developing disruptive innovations which can be of great long-term benefit to BASF’s business units or R&D units, and providing adequate financial return to the corporation.”.

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Corporate Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Björn Heinz, investment manager at BASF Venture Capital, summarizes his group’s mission as “identifying and supporting startups that are developing disruptive innovations which can be of great long-term benefit to BASF’s business units or R&D units, and providing adequate financial return to the corporation.”.

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Corporate Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Björn Heinz, investment manager at BASF Venture Capital, summarizes his group’s mission as “identifying and supporting startups that are developing disruptive innovations which can be of great long-term benefit to BASF’s business units or R&D units, and providing adequate financial return to the corporation.”.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Oren Jacob , Pixar’s ex CTO has been teaching with us at Berkeley and Stanford and has been trying to point out this connection for years!). of disruption – these ugly babies – coming their way always looks like a toy.). Innovation Management – Animation and Startups. Early mockups of Pixar films are called “ugly babies.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

As promised , I asked Bruce Brown , P&G's CTO, one of the questions readers submitted last week: "As you look forward into the future what do you see as P&G's largest challenges, as seen through your eyes as CTO?" Non-obvious disruptions." Brown noted three specific challenges. First, the general challenge of growth.

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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. The CTO grimaced. As we talked, the CTO mentioned that one of these firms was a subsidiary of one of his company's biggest customers. Why do they refuse your offers to innovate?".

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

The Chief Entrepreneur will be responsible for managing a portfolio of entrepreneurs who experiment with new business models and value propositions. This is not a CTO role or a role that reports to the CEO. The Chief Entrepreneur is an executive as powerful as the CEO, with clear leadership over radical innovation within the company.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

Khoja recalls his chief technology officer, Eric Chapman, announcing a week into the search that they were going to have to choose their engineers in a different way. So when Roshan advertised that it was hiring, ten thousand people responded, but few had even the most rudimentary qualifications.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

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. Four years ago, Craig Hatkoff, co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, approached me about a brainstorm: an event recognizing and celebrating breakthrough innovators.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

Khoja recalls his chief technology officer, Eric Chapman, announcing a week into the search that they were going to have to choose their engineers in a different way. So when Roshan advertised that it was hiring, ten thousand people responded, but few had even the most rudimentary qualifications.

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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."

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2017

By Paul Clarke, Chief Technology Officer, Ocado. All the technology that powers this disruptive business model has been built in-house over the past 17 years. Ocado has been profitable at an order level for many years but has chosen to invest heavily in building its technology platform.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

HDS put Hu Yoshida , its highly-respected chief technology officer, in the limelight to attract high-level audiences. Seen through the lens of history, the current customer awakening, and the disruptions caused by social media to business today, need not be a cause for worry or panic.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

He had her sit next to the CEO, and enabled her to wander around and ask questions to everyone, including the CEO and the CTO. Remember, the key to wrong thinking is coming up with a seemingly bad idea to challenge the status quo, pushing ourselves to imagine new and disruptive ideas, beyond our own preconceptions.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2013

At Boeing, all enterprise technology (including digital) investments are managed by the CTO, which enables significant synergies. Leaving the organization structure "as is" reduces disruption while the mechanisms help facilitate working together across the units.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

IT leaders should acknowledge that they need to develop a way of sensing directional shifts early, so that they''re not caught flat-footed by the next thing that will disrupt the foundations of their business or their infrastructure. The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. Creating More Resilient Plans.

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