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An Innovation Action Plan for the New CTO

Innovation Excellence

Finding and Growing Innovation Islands Inside a Large Company GUEST POST from Steve Blank How does a newly hired Chief Technology Officer (CTO) find and grow the islands of innovation inside a large company? How not to waste your first … Continue reading →

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Calculating the ROI for Your Idea Management System Launch

IdeaScale

How is your idea management software performing? This is a particular struggle for innovation departments and committees launching an idea management system, who often need to come up with KPIs and metrics to explain what they’re doing and how it benefits the company. How do you measure the intangible? Goals And Direction.

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How Your Chief Technology Officer May Kill innovation

Innovation Excellence

A few months ago I was offered a position of a Chief Technology Officer in a startup company. I wasn’t going to take it, but it made me reflect on what a CTO does and, more important, what a great CTO should do in the company. Through my history in different high-tech companies (although this.

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Don’t Miss These 7 Sessions From the Project to Product Summit

Planview

Greschen walked through how to leverage a Value Stream Management (VSM) platform to create the flow models you need to get the metrics and data that will help you identify opportunities and make improvements. Alan shared firsthand experience on how leaders can overcome these roadblocks by starting to think more like players than coaches.

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New Study: 2018 State of Embedded Analytics Report

Why do some embedded analytics projects succeed while others fail? We surveyed 500+ application teams embedding analytics to find out which analytics features actually move the needle. Read the 6th annual State of Embedded Analytics Report to discover new best practices. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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The Ultimate Competitive Advantage: Investing in Your Employees

Business and Tech

Eric Koslow, CTO and co-founder of Lattice, a workforce management company, has seen that dynamic firsthand. For example, Lattice is a great place to build in conversation starters between manager and employees in the weekly check-in report.”. You need the baseline: psychological safety,” he notes.

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Technical Advisors: Every Startup Needs One

TechEmpower Innovation

The Strategic Technical Advisor looks at the business and determines what makes sense from a technology perspective in the short-term and longer-terms. CTO Founder – Do they really still need a technical advisor? We’ve talked about this before in Startup CTO or Developer. Is this person a CTO or a developer?