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. In addition to internal R&D, startup-driven technology and business model innovation is an important contributor to achieving the corporate innovation goals.

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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. In addition to internal R&D, startup-driven technology and business model innovation is an important contributor to achieving the corporate innovation goals.

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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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CorporateIntel

MAY 15, 2014

He is also the CTO of SpaceX and the chief product architect of Tesla. He makes disruption make sense. 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. Not Elon Musk.

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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. 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 Disrupt HR! It happens.

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The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 16, 2019

They reported directly to the CTO. CEOs who focus their attention on future events and external activities lead their firms to early adoption and invention of new technologies and greater and faster development of innovations. Strategic mandate – Sustaining or incremental innovation was off limits. It can be done.

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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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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?" Simplifying technology and new business models." Non-obvious disruptions." Non-consumption."

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

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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.

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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. Capturing the Innovation Mind-Set at Bally Technologies. If you say we should, let’s do it. In 2010, the first year, the event was fledgling, but charming. Innovation'

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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

AUGUST 20, 2013

Adoption risk: Adopting technologies or responding to market, business, and technology trends too quickly or too slowly; reactively or over thought, without considering how non-technical implications or unintended consequences contribute adoption risk. Netflix is another example of disruptive innovation. IT management'

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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. For example, the Facebook page might post links to blog posts by Yoshida on the latest video technology or storage trends. Here's how: Get your experts out front. Put customer experiences front and center.

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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. IT management Information & technology Technology'

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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.” Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

Information Technology Changes the Way You Compete" was a trailblazing HBR article by Warren McFarlan back in the early 1980s. Their strategic use of information technology (IT) presaged the dot.com boom of the 1990s when the Internet made this kind of online ordering commonplace.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2017

But somewhere along the way, we recognized that they were based on definable pipelines and applied technology to manage those pipelines. With the right technology, could you manage this pipeline the way you manage a sales pipeline? As the service techs understood, the problem wasn’t actually the inspection.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Rather than relying on slow, expensive supply chains to import disaster relief, Field Ready empowers people in disaster-struck areas with the technology and expertise to make life-saving and life-sustaining supplies onsite. Dara Dotz is removing obstacles to rapid recovery in humanitarian disasters with her NGO, Field Ready.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Beyond shipping new features on a regular cadence and keeping the peace between engineering and the design team, the best PMs create products with strong user adoption that have exponential revenue growth and perhaps even disrupt an industry. Translating business-to-technical requirements, and vice versa. Core Competencies.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

Yet, in a function driven by innovation and the uncertainties surrounding the application and implication of future technologies, not using scenarios is tantamount to management malpractice. These threats and opportunities require a clear way to test how they will play out against various social, technological, and economic assumptions.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

The core disruptive concept is that the “pipe” created by the cable MSOs (multiple system operators) no longer provides the sole gateway to consumers’ television screens. Technology can power smarter media placements and dynamic creative strategies at scale. ” Data. Brands can then enhance their core data set.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

It''s worth remembering the revolutionary idea that started the whole thing: that people — executives in particular — would want to check their email away from the office, a notion that seemed preposterous until BlackBerrys were put into the hands of the likes of Michael Dell, one of the first people to order one.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

By Paul Clarke, Chief Technology Officer, Ocado. This has been our experience at Ocado, a leading online-only grocery retailer, as we’ve embedded AI across our technology estate. With all this at our fingertips, it is of paramount importance that we put this technology to good use. AI at Ocado. AI for Good.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. Once again, it has started in the bowels of technology companies and startups. ” The case of healthcare technology firm athenahealth is an instructive one. aleksandarvelasevic/Getty Images. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Look for ways to stretch the boundaries of current innovation efforts, but remember you are not the CEO or CTO. Some of these might be very specific initiatives, like identifying product-market fit for a new technology. And you are probably missing the most exciting and possibly disruptive ideas in your space.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

By Paul Clarke, Chief Technology Officer, Ocado. Across the retail landscape, a war is going on, and the battles are being fought on multiple fronts: business models, channels, brands, customers, technologies, and more. Some particular applications of AI still do.

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Planview

OCTOBER 21, 2024

In the latest Mik + One podcast, Dr. Mik Kersten, Chief Technology Officer at Planview, sat down with Dr. Suzette Johnson and Robin Yeman to discuss their groundbreaking work on Industrial DevOps and its potential to revolutionize the development of cyber-physical systems.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2011

The second meeting was a moderated discussion between P&G CTO Bruce Brown and me about our recent Harvard Business Review article. Right before this event, the moderator showed me a technology developed by two young Singaporeans called " Pigeonhole ," designed to draw the audience into the discussion. The technology is simple.

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