Huub Rutten

MARCH 3, 2021

You know, we have meetings with 5 people, including our CEO and CTO. “But you are a decision maker, why do you let 70% of the investments continue while you are convinced they should be killed? 70% is a lot!”. Well, Huub, decision making is not a matter of 2 plus 2 makes 4.

CTO 52

CTO Project Meeting Marketing 52

Huub Rutten

MARCH 3, 2021

You know, we have meetings with 5 people, including our CEO and CTO. “But you are a decision maker, why do you let 70% of the investments continue while you are convinced they should be killed? 70% is a lot!”. Well, Huub, decision making is not a matter of 2 plus 2 makes 4.

CTO 52

CTO Project Meeting Marketing 52

Huub Rutten

MARCH 3, 2021

You know, we have meetings with 5 people, including our CEO and CTO. “But you are a decision maker, why do you let 70% of the investments continue while you are convinced they should be killed? 70% is a lot!”. Well, Huub, decision making is not a matter of 2 plus 2 makes 4.

CTO 52

CTO Project Meeting Marketing 52

Huub Rutten

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

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. Joe is of course in a special position: as a CEO he has a series of steering instruments, like Strategy and KPI Setting, Strategic Initiatives and the Allocation of Budgets.

Fractional CTO 52

Fractional CTO Management Roadmap Technical Review 52

Huub Rutten

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

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. Joe is of course in a special position: as a CEO he has a series of steering instruments, like Strategy and KPI Setting, Strategic Initiatives and the Allocation of Budgets.

Fractional CTO 52

Fractional CTO Management Roadmap Technical Review 52

Huub Rutten

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

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. Joe is of course in a special position: as a CEO he has a series of steering instruments, like Strategy and KPI Setting, Strategic Initiatives and the Allocation of Budgets.

Fractional CTO 52

Fractional CTO Management Roadmap Technical Review 52

Anaqua

MARCH 27, 2019

By Erik Reeves, CTO of Anaqua. The accelerating pace of technological advancement is both unmistakable and inexorable today. These assets are bringing about exciting things in several areas: infrastructure and automation, new technologies, and improved integration of actionable data, analytics, and decision support.

Technology 40

Technology Fractional CTO CTO Data 40

CorporateIntel

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Long before the debate raged on whether private offices had run their course of usefulness—and just how truly dreadful the industrial cubicle could be—company leaders were debating the “optimal” way to arrange organizational charts in the Information Age.

CTO 43

CTO Report Product Development Creativity 43

The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Independent reporting – They were independent of core corporate functions like R&D, Marketing, and Business Development. They reported directly to the CTO. Most corporate business functions – new product development (NPD), quality, sales, R&D, marketing, etc.

System 53

System Innovation Groups Leadership 53

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

Starting a global engineering operation “essentially doubles the expense for 6-12 months,” says former Informatica CTO, James Markarian. Her vision is that if you invest in grooming budding leaders at offshore locations, you can permanently solve your cost and capacity problems in product development.

Fractional CTO 13

Fractional CTO CTO Company Agile 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

For the hands-on managers, nearly 80% of CEOs took the most active role; in contrast, hands-off companies relied much more on their R&D head or chief technology officer. The most critical stage — during the actual product development process — is also when things can unravel quickly.

Open Innovation 12

Open Innovation Technical Review CTO Underperforming Technical Team 12

Matthew Griffin

JUNE 1, 2015

“When people come together with a common purpose anything is possible. Entrepreneurs are becoming increasingly empowered and the businesses they’re building have already torn down and transformed entire industries and you under estimate them at your peril.”.

Disruption 40

Disruption Industry Competition Resources 40

Matthew Griffin

JUNE 9, 2015

“Evidence shows us that the 20 th Century Corporation is dying and that it’s being replaced by a new breed of Millennial Organisation that operates, scales and runs in an entirely new way. In order to compete tomorrow’s corporations will need to reinvent their operating model and embrace a Platform strategy.”.

Disruption 40

Disruption Ideation Marketing Industry 40

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Their product development teams followed a traditional software development method – called “ Waterfall ” – in which they spent months defining customer requirements and functional specifications, coding the software, and testing it for quality and reliability. They faced a culture clash, however.

Software Review 15

Software Review Design Thinking Software Design 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility.

Agile 8

Agile Change Software Developers Software Development 8

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.” In other words, they need to use less stuff.

Resources 13

Resources CTO Agile Trends 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

How to Brand a Next-Generation Product. Developing the Global Leader. Read more from Harvard Business School Executive Education: How to Spot a Liar. A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections. The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service.

Innovation 11

Innovation Technical Review Leadership CTO 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

By Paul Clarke, Chief Technology Officer, Ocado. Industry 4.0

Artificial Inteligence 8

Artificial Inteligence CTO Internet of things Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

How to Brand a Next-Generation Product. Developing the Global Leader. Read more from Harvard Business School Executive Education: How to Spot a Liar. A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections. The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service.

Innovation 8

Innovation Technical Review Leadership CTO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

If you are an aspiring PM concerned you lack the basic tech skills for the role, you might consider taking online courses such as the renowned Introduction to Computer Science ( CS50 ) course offered by Harvard University or one of the many intro and advanced technology courses offered by The Flatiron School.

Management 8

Management Underperforming Technical Team CTO Course 8