Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

I was struck and somewhat surprised by how different the approaches to innovation success and its management seemed to be. It raises the question of where can Innovation Management Software go ever to broaden out, and gain a scale and adoption momentum to support these (individual) efforts significantly.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Cognyte, the global leading security analytics software provider, has launched an innovation management program with the Qmarkets Q-ideate tool. shared Amir Barel, Chief Technology Officer at Cognyte. “We Qmarkets helps us to do just that.” said Noam Danon, CEO of Qmarkets.

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TechEmpower Innovation

JULY 24, 2023

Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. Content Management How often will the application’s content need to change? A Product Manager? Do you rely on affiliates? Fulfillment?

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Technical Review Fractional CTO CTO Innovation 312

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.). AI and cognitive computing have grabbed headlines.

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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. There was initial resistance to measuring the full software development lifecycle beyond engineering cycle time.

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Planview

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The Value Stream Management Consortium (VSMC) has become, over the past three years, a pivotal entity in championing the principles and practices of Value Stream Management. It offers a clear path to not only address prevailing challenges but also to future-proof their organizations in an ever-evolving technological landscape.

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Acuvate

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Water Management & Treatment Optimizer An innovative solution leveraging IoT, AI, data integration, and predictive analytics to monitor and control water quality parameters, resolve quality issues faster, optimize chemical usage, improve operational processes, and reduce complaints and carbon footprint.

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Huub Rutten

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Dear Reader, Joe the CEO , Leon the Product Line Director and Emily the Product Manager are hard working people, very motivated to make their company successful. 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.

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Fractional CTO Management Roadmap Technical Review 52

Huub Rutten

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Dear Reader, Joe the CEO , Leon the Product Line Director and Emily the Product Manager are hard working people, very motivated to make their company successful. 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.

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Fractional CTO Management Roadmap Technical Review 52

Huub Rutten

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Dear Reader, Joe the CEO , Leon the Product Line Director and Emily the Product Manager are hard working people, very motivated to make their company successful. 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.

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Fractional CTO Management Roadmap Technical Review 52

hackerearth

MARCH 31, 2017

Think of HR managers who have to align company goals and employee satisfaction! The talent management and performance review processes are certainly not what we’d refer to as all in a day’s work. HR managers should advise team leads to gauge the competency of their team members before putting in requests for urgent hires. “If

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Acuvate

APRIL 5, 2022

The technology understands forms at the edge, on-premises, or in the cloud. It automates information extraction to allow businesses to focus their time and energies on leveraging actionable insights and building cognitive document management systems instead of just compiling the data.

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Planview

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Who it’s from: Harvard Business Review. David Levis, the company’s Chief Innovation Officer, sheds light on Deloitte’s innovation plans going forward. James Gardner, Spigit’s CTO, Explains. This article, based on an Accenture report, brings awareness to the obstacles to innovation in financial services.

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Taivara

AUGUST 23, 2018

And despite what many software sales reps may claim, there is no single, simple customer data platform that both integrates legacy data structures and allows for continued ongoing change. Next, you will need an enabling technology. This challenge cannot be solved simply with upgrades, coding or other patchwork ETL/interfaces.

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Information Playground

OCTOBER 8, 2015

During the meeting the CTO of EMC shared his thoughts on the technology direction of the company. The dialogue caused me to wonder how I've managed to stay so excited about working for the same company year after year. The CTO of EMC talked for 3.5 Review the seven habits of intrapreneurship. Go invisible.

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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. They invest in different sectors: such as software and services for USAA Ventures, and materials (and more) for BASF Venture Capital. and Europe. They invest globally.

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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. They invest in different sectors: such as software and services for USAA Ventures, and materials (and more) for BASF Venture Capital. and Europe. They invest globally.

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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. They invest in different sectors: such as software and services for USAA Ventures, and materials (and more) for BASF Venture Capital. and Europe. They invest globally.

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Technical Review Software Review Innovation Groups 40

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

The German engineers helped the LGT tap into Harman's extensive global resource base, including existing best practices and software codes. Paliwal not only thwarted the coup, he supported Lawande's leadership and even made him the new CTO.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

Advise the manager to give them some feedback. But for flat or self-managed teams, that’s not an option. Self-managed teams must identify different ways to find and address day-to-day conflicts. Self-managed teams can focus on three things to help them successfully resolve conflicts. Harvard Business Review.

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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."

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Big data has the potential to revolutionize management. Simply put, because of big data, managers can measure, and hence know, radically more about their businesses, and directly translate that knowledge into improved decision making and performance. Of course, companies such as Google and Amazon are already doing this.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

For all the emphasis placed on customer relationships these days, very few large organizations really understand how to manage them. This isn’t the fault of the technology or the CTO, who usually manages it. By treating it as merely another piece of software to optimize, most organizations squander this opportunity.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers. The issue arose as a result of changes to IBM’s business model for software. In the past, IBM mostly provided enterprise software to customers who installed it on their own computers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

In other words, how do you manage up to someone who’s just jumped a level above you and who might’ve been a friend? In some ways, you’ll have to treat your new boss like you would a manager you’ve never met before , says Michael Watkins, author of The First 90 Days. Does your relationship need to change?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

When demands arise in an industrial environment, managers and engineers must interrupt the automation to update the processes that make the machines go. The software can spot hidden problems in existing processes and optimize quality in products. Machine learning allow the printers to adapt on the fly — and this is key.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

The methodology is Continuous Development, which, like agile, began as a software development methodology. Rather than improving software in one large batch, updates are made continuously, piece-by-piece, enabling software code to be delivered to customers as soon as it is completed and tested. Fix errors faster.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

Both have signed on with Prism Skylabs , a software company, to map in-store customer behavior. The redder the location, the more frequently it was trafficked: For chief technology officer Joe Lezon, the results were both helpful and surprising. .” This is changing with the emergence of location analytics.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

While both measures are less than perfect, and we recognize that many companies use Eastern Europe and South American engineering sites, the GEI works well to demonstrate the diversity of industries—it isn’t just software and IT—with a significant portion of their R&D overseas. The top thirty companies are shown below.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2011

The news had just hit that Danny Lewin — the co-founder of Akamai Technologies, its charismatic CTO, a former commando in the Israeli Special Forces, and MIT mathematics genius who led the company from a math class to an IPO and a market cap of $30 billion — had suddenly died. For all of us, Danny was our CTO and visionary.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

By Paul Clarke, Chief Technology Officer, Ocado. Like other disruptive technologies before it, AI has the potential to be a huge force for good, solving some of the large societal problems facing humanity. Code for Life now has over 135,000 users spread across nearly 100 countries. AI for Good.

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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. As the CEO and founder of a remote-based software development company, I’ve learned that remote work creates better employees.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Self-management: Being a PM can be incredibly stressful. Company Fit.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

Maybe employees will soon barge through the doors and board shuttle busses to the BMW dealerships, software bugs be damned. In July 1999, I left a law firm for a business development role at a startup with a strange name — Akamai Technologies. Or something like that. And what happens afterward?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

Managing for Metrics Rather than Mission. Tronc, with little technology expertise to speak of and no money to invest in significant research, will be betting its future on third-party software. The truth is that Tronc is managing for metrics rather than for mission. As a marketing ploy the move clearly failed.

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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. Today you can put a corporate dashboard in place to manage them and tweak the settings to try to boost your results. million employees that have used an idea management system called Spigit.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

Find out what keeps your manager up at night and propose solutions to those problems. It''s appropriate to raise your ambitions with your manager if you have a trusting, solid relationship, but frame them in a way that focuses on what''s best for the company. "Show her that you''re willing to pick up the baton on important projects."

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