Yet2

AUGUST 22, 2023

Outcomes One of our clients, a large consumer packaged goods company approached yet2 hoping to inform their senior R&D leadership on the connection between big data and healthcare in the Bay Area. The tour attendees included the company’s CTO and seven R&D Vice Presidents in different categories.

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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.). synthesize information. Specifically, how they: .

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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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Acuvate

DECEMBER 31, 2022

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. And our most significant achievements in 2022 have been aligned with this goal.

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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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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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Taivara

AUGUST 23, 2018

Because the customer has given us all the information asked of them or what they prefer to share, they expect the retailer to act like it knows them. You’ll also identify lots of extraneous information that doesn’t help anywhere – and you may be able to either eliminate or reduce any effort to capture, govern, or manage that data.

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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. The technology understands forms at the edge, on-premises, or in the cloud. Cognitive search indexes.

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Information Playground

OCTOBER 8, 2015

This week I was in Dublin, Ireland to attend ITAC Europe (EMC's Industry Technical Advisory Council). During the meeting the CTO of EMC shared his thoughts on the technology direction of the company. The CTO of EMC talked for 3.5 The handout led me to an internal website containing more information on the project.

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Information Playground

MAY 17, 2017

I am in my third year researching the topic on behalf of Dell EMC's Office of the CTO. Two months ago our research was published for the first time in MIT Sloan Management Review.  Fellow, Dell Technologies To my knowledge, this was the first time the topic made it onto the agenda at the conference.

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Legacy Innovation Group

APRIL 1, 2019

So both Forbes and Thomson have highly technical algorithms with undoubtedly some incredible level of precision behind them, but because they're looking at two very different things, they arrive at two very different answers. The price of entry here is 100 or more innovation patents from the most recent five years.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

And as part of a contingent staffing strategy, emerging businesses and startups can afford access to outstanding technical experts that would otherwise be cost prohibitive on a full-time basis. Others are new to managing or stronger technically than as a supervisor. Here’s the problem. Some are excellent.

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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.

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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

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.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2013

Protecting a company''s critical information is a value proposition. Losing that kind of information can mean a plunge in stock price and market share. So who''s responsible for information security in your company? And insofar as some of that liability stays here, it''s a technical problem. But security? Who''s left?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

Instead of debuting a new, tech-savvy firm that would, in the words of chief digital officer Anne Vasquez, be like “having a tech startup culture meet a legacy corporate culture,” it came off as buzzword-laden and naive. As a marketing ploy the move clearly failed. The Downside of Data.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

With guidance from Paul English, chief technology officer of Kayak, we borrowed a common tool from business — professional virtual communities (PVCs) — and adapted it to leverage the wisdom of the crowds. Images are reviewed by the appropriate subspecialist. The Launch. How could members establish trust?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

Information governance is not IT''s job. It''s time for CIOs to move beyond their roles as chief technology officers, and embrace the name with all of its implications: Chief Information Officer. The explosive growth of information is accelerating. But it should be the CIO''s job. We know this.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

At many startups, teams are structured loosely and often work in informal (“tribal”) groups. Founders hold vast amounts of information in their heads, and when they hand over the reins, the new team can experience a knowledge gap. Inattention to this can be disastrous. Minimize the handover period.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

This isn’t the fault of the technology or the CTO, who usually manages it. Because it involves software, many companies make it the CTO’s responsibility. As a consultant, I’ve seen dozens of CRM implementations in a wide range of organizations, and consistently find that they fail more than they succeed.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

“That’s the really big thing: Identifying what a volume of people do over a period of time, and how you read that information.” Prism can also convey information on customer movements as a heat map. “Retailers want to know what parts of their store are busy, and where customers particularly shop.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

I''m often struck by how many articles exclusively focus on new or emerging technology and their productivity or efficiency effects. Every discussion on the role of IT and CIOs should start with the question: "What are the potential uses of this technology that will guarantee we stay in business?" Generating Top-Line Growth.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Here's how two companies, both far from Silicon Valley upstarts, used new flows of information to radically improve performance. In search of a better solution, the airline turned to PASSUR Aerospace, a provider of decision-support technologies for the aviation industry. The technologies are new and in some cases exotic.

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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

JULY 24, 2013

At Boeing, all enterprise technology (including digital) investments are managed by the CTO, which enables significant synergies. These committees at BMW ensure the creation and smooth handoff of information. IT management Information & technology Technology' Convergence. Exploit IT for Strategic Benefit.

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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. Everyone in the company is allotted a certain number of points to give away to others each month, and this information is displayed graphically.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

And the lessons learned from political uprisings can inform businesses on how to adjust to the new, increasingly transparent world we live in. HDS put Hu Yoshida , its highly-respected chief technology officer, in the limelight to attract high-level audiences. But what many see as a threat is actually a major opportunity.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

But Apple’s most impressive achievement on display at yesterday’s announcement was not a technological feat — although the technology on display was certainly impressive. The term was coined by the first CTO of the US Government, Aneesh Chopra. Apple Collaboration Technology' When the President calls, you answer.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Knowing this information will help you avoid misunderstandings that could complicate your work or put you in a difficult situation. When Shutterstock hired a new chief technology officer, Kiran Patel, the director of engineering, was eager to start things off on the right foot. The best strategy for figuring it out?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

CIOs, tasked with turning technology into revenue, are themselves pounding the table demanding better requirements for Big Data initiatives. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2013

Perhaps the most exciting (and challenging) aspect of working in a progressive IT organization is the pace of technological change. In addition to service improvement efforts, new CIOs should also continuously review which information services are "core" versus "strategic." Generate Room for Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2013

Then, they look at the health of the information available to business leaders who manage those capabilities. They find this leads them into all sorts of overlooked opportunities and provides them with a good proxy for where IT investment can have significant business impact, which can better inform prioritization decisions.

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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

But no one yet is successfully leveraging consumer data and relationships across the digital-physical divide at scale, despite early experimentation with technology such as beacons. Technology can power smarter media placements and dynamic creative strategies at scale. Brands must align process and technology to make this happen.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. The clients don’t have to own or maintain the technology. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

"If you find yourself walking down the hall with the most senior person at your company, be prepared to answer the question, ''So what are you up to?''" Maignan Wilkins says, "Don''t take lightly any interactions that may seem informal. Do: Look for every opportunity to demonstrate your leadership potential, at work and outside the office.

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