Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

A CRM or other systems for maintaining day-to-day information on all the company’s customers, major contracts, investors, products, technologies, sales, and marketing activities are essential, practical ways of sharing information. Minimize the handover period.

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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. 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. It’s a result of misguided strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

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. At the same time, technology budgets are static or contracting, and non-IT execs want more attention to cost-cutting. We know this.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

And because organizational change tends to be driven by those who most acutely feel the pain, it’s often line managers who are the strongest champions for “talent tech”: innovations in how firms hire people, staff projects, evaluate performance, and develop talent. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

According to the company's CTO, Phil Shelley, the time needed to generate a comprehensive set of promotions dropped from eight weeks to one, and is still dropping. Sears's Hadoop cluster stores and processes several petabytes of data at a fraction of the cost of a comparable standard data warehouse. BIG DATA INSIGHT CENTER. More >>.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

Threats range from periodic, temporary outages, to catastrophic failure from the dissolution of the provider, to a merger or acquisition that requires rethinking existing relationships and perhaps renegotiating existing service contracts. The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs).

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2014

There’s lots of advice out there about how to disconnect from work and return to the office refreshed. And how can you increase the chances that you’ll come back relaxed and revitalized? Here’s how to vacation the right way. If someone’s always holding on to the seat, you never actually learn how to ride it.”.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

My friend Craig Bickel , Principal at IT strategy consultancy WGroup told me that: "While functional responsibilities will remain specialized, innovation, implementation, and value realization must be shared between the business and IT." The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

And after several fruitless meetings with the COO, the HR chief, and industry consultants, he’d decided that he needed to investigate the issue himself. A week from now, I’d like a proposal for how to get back to 12 minutes, if not down to 10. You’ll learn how to do it faster. “First time?”

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CorporateIntel

MAY 15, 2014

He is also the CTO of SpaceX and the chief product architect of Tesla. When Musk recently faced a roadblock in submitting a competitive bid for a government contract controlled by Lockheed Martin and Boeing, he sued the federal government for the right to compete at substantially lower cost. Not Elon Musk. I like this way.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

” Here are some tips on how to make that transition as seamlessly as possible. “Talking to peers, coaches, and mentors about your feelings and fears of inadequacy” will help you feel less alone and may also give you ideas on how to handle the situation, says Wallace. Face your fears. Wallace agrees. Don’t.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

How to Improve Your Business Writing. You’re looking for business leads, consulting engagements, a promotion — whatever. For example, if you want clients for your CTO coaching business, then chief technology officers (and the people who know them) are your audience. You and Your Team Series.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2016

But in my role as a consultant and teacher, I often hear about another kind of work-family conflict: the tension emanating from parental needs or expectations that are incongruent with their children’s own values and plans. .” ” “I’m afraid to tell my parents I’m gay.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Customer collaboration over contract negotiation. It is no wonder that the CTO of this company said, “my engineers feel like short order cooks in the back of a diner.” Without a plan, teams won’t know how to prioritize actions, and how to invest in those actions responsibly.

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