Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Let me pick up on a number of points I gleaned from this report Today it is increasingly hard to get leadership attention, grappling with threats of recession, inflation, supply chain breakdowns and an increasingly hostile world to operate it. I found this a great structure for different innovation “buckets.”

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Planview

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Here’s the experience that the panelists and moderator bring to the table: Sejal Amin, Chief Technology Officer at Shutterstock, stepped into her role in November 2022, just when Shutterstock was making their data deal with OpenAI. She’s led her team in bringing AI to the market throughout this turbulent year.

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hackerearth

APRIL 30, 2018

However, a skilled CTO(Chief Digital Transformation officer) / CDO (Chief Digital Officer) with great leadership skills can be that maestro conductor inspiring an amazing orchestra. The CTO/CDO can connect strategy and implementation better than anyone else. Why has it sometimes failed?

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helloFUTURE

JUNE 9, 2019

Some people might guess the CTO or the CEO. If you have a dedicated innovation group, then it might be the Chief Innovation Officer (CINO), or the VP or Innovation, or some other senior leader with innovation… The post Innovation Starts With HR appeared first on hellofuture. Are You Hiring For Innovation?

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hackerearth

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Technological advances necessitate CINO roles. When the Internet arrived 20 years ago, it necessitated roles such as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Chief Information Officer (CIO). Cint announced the appointment of a CINO as part of their leadership team.

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Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Thinkers360: Tell us a bit about your background and areas of expertise WG: As an internationally respected CIO and CTO who has lived and worked across Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Americas, I possess considerable multicultural awareness as well as adaptability. Thinkers360: How do you utilize Thinkers360?

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Planview

MAY 5, 2023

Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon Web Services (AWS), once said, “Dance like nobody is watching. Fresenius leadership issued a mandate to transform how the company works and collaborates globally. A complete overview of ongoing projects helps leadership make data-driven decisions. Encrypt like everyone is.”

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Beyond the Obvious

JUNE 15, 2018

As the retired CTO of a major technology company, I was surrounded by visual clues that clearly indicate when a tech product is headed to the gadget graveyard. Most of the time, it’s hard to ignore these clues, because they are pretty obvious. I see them in meetings with my coworkers or customers when we […].

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eZassi

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Innovation Leadership – Strategies for Executives Despite a focus on disruptive innovation, collaboration is lacking between business units, and the necessary structures between corporate entities and partners are often missing, causing breakdowns in the innovation process and missed opportunities.

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The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 16, 2019

A successful, Fortune 50, corporate innovation group has been continuously creating strategic innovations for almost two decades – through numerous leadership and organizational changes. It requires certain commitments and behaviors on the part of both company leadership and the strategic innovation group. Highlights.

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Planview

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Spigit CTO James Gardner, who this week is presenting at the Chief Innovation Officer Summit in NYC , knows a thing or two about how to be successful at crowdsourcing innovation. Do not make the mistake of imagining that the crowd is somehow inferior to experts or leadership. ” Click here to read the full article.

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Wazoku

MARCH 2, 2018

In a recent conversation with the CTO of a global law firm, he shared with me that their innovation strategy is really “a PR strategy for recruitment and talent purposes.” If you are a senior business leader reading this article, ask yourself, honestly, what is your innovation activity for? Not the corporate answer. Some honesty.

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Tullio Siragusa

JULY 10, 2023

IT teams, led by the CTO, are often more focused on the technical aspects, such as system stability and data security. The Misalignment Challenge Before delving into the solutions, let’s first shed light on the problem. The IT-business misalignment typically stems from communication breakdowns between these two entities.

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Michael Roberto

AUGUST 23, 2016

Julia Austin, Chief Technology Officer at DigitalOcean and advisor to many startups in the Boston area, has written a terrific blog post about how to conduct effective one-on-one meetings with your direct reports. I highly recommend reading the entire post. Here are a few highlights: "Book a regular cadence of 1:1s.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Three months ago, while in Munich for one of these community sessions, we met up with Dr. Roland Busch , (@BuschRo), currently the CTO of Siemens and soon to assume the role of COO in a new structure emerging early next year. As part of this exposure to Siemens, we are having some significant engagements with their senior people.

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hackerearth

JANUARY 22, 2018

The CTO at PayPal, Sri Shivananda, says that the company starts its investment in hiring talent even before the prospective candidates have graduated. Innovation depends on the leadership qualities of the leaders of a company. There are other ways to invest in talent too.

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hackerearth

JANUARY 22, 2018

The CTO at PayPal, Sri Shivananda, says that the company starts its investment in hiring talent even before the prospective candidates have graduated. Innovation depends on the leadership qualities of the leaders of a company. There are other ways to invest in talent too.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 26, 2017

Last week’s “Inside the Executive Suite” article from Armada Corporate Intelligence picked out highlights on leadership skills from Fast Company magazine. There are a number of team development and leadership skills mentioned that fit themes we talk about here. Leadership Practices. He will ask a candidate a question.

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KindlingApp

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Because it creates a record of the process from ideation to execution, Kindling provides our sales leadership a way to see which projects have the most momentum as well as insight into how to prioritize those projects. This is also where we discuss projects or initiatives outside of the typical sales purview.

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Corporate Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

The CVCs in the sample: Gain and maintain support from senior leadership. Nino Marakovic, CEO of Sapphire Ventures, pointed to the importance of maintaining CEO support throughout leadership changes. The CTO — and by extension the R&D organization — is intimately involved with the BASF, Siemens and Qualcomm CVC groups.

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Corporate Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

The CVCs in the sample: Gain and maintain support from senior leadership. Nino Marakovic, CEO of Sapphire Ventures, pointed to the importance of maintaining CEO support throughout leadership changes. The CTO — and by extension the R&D organization — is intimately involved with the BASF, Siemens and Qualcomm CVC groups.

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Corporate Innovation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

The CVCs in the sample: Gain and maintain support from senior leadership. Nino Marakovic, CEO of Sapphire Ventures, pointed to the importance of maintaining CEO support throughout leadership changes. The CTO — and by extension the R&D organization — is intimately involved with the BASF, Siemens and Qualcomm CVC groups.

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Rmukesh Gupta

AUGUST 1, 2018

And that is that in order to truly qualify to be a digital transformation initiative, the project should have two elements – Technology & Business Impact. This means that the Digital Transformation needs the collaboration of the CIO/CTO/CDO and the business leaders.

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CorporateIntel

MAY 15, 2014

He is also the CTO of SpaceX and the chief product architect of Tesla. Musk is doing that, which to me looks like real leadership, and it feels good to applaud him. Not Elon Musk. He started not one subsequent company, but two — Tesla Motors and SpaceX — and leads both as CEO. Not exactly a path to retirement.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Oren Jacob , Pixar’s ex CTO has been teaching with us at Berkeley and Stanford and has been trying to point out this connection for years!). Getting middle management to tolerate and not feel threatened by problems and surprises is one of the biggest jobs of Pixar’s CEO and senior leadership.).

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Matthew Griffin

JUNE 1, 2015

Transforming a large business takes time, leadership and a firm hand but managed correctly you can make the turn and still be in the lead. Disrupt yourself before someone else does and lead the new market rather than being relegated to being a footnote.

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Planview

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Lloyds understood that more than simply surging digital and technological solutioning would be needed to differentiate and disrupt their market. They would only achieve their desired outcomes if they rethink their operating models and embrace their digital transformation at the leadership level.

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Acuvate

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Indiana Workforce Department’s CIO, CTO and Director of Workforce Strategy, Department of Environmental Management, Department of Revenue, and State Police, among other public sector leaders, also attended the event.

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mjvinnovation

JUNE 26, 2020

Strategic leadership and teams. The execution of an IT strategy requires strong leadership. Typically, the CIO and CTO need to work closely with the business, budget and legal departments, as well as with other lines of business and user groups to achieve success.

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Phil McKinney

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

IDG (parent company for CIO, Computerworld, CSO, Infoworld, ITWorld and MACWorld) asked what advice I would give new leaders. At the moment, I didn't think it was going to be that hard. Then they added a constraint. I had to do it in less than 5 minutes. Watch the video on IDG.TV – [link] For those of […].

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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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CorporateIntel

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

That doesn’t mean I am against having an exemplary CFO, CTO, or CIO setting the bar for excellence in a discipline. If we take that back to the visual metaphor of the open floor plan, I tend to see greater strength in the output and engagement of Cross-Functional Teams than I do Functional Departments.

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Matthew Griffin

JUNE 9, 2015

Your journey to reinvent your organisation using new 21 st Century principles will be difficult but with a clear vision and strong leadership you’ll find that you still have time to survive and that will be the topic of one of my future articles. The 20 th Century Corporation is dead and your organisation must learn and adapt or perish.

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