by Robert Boyd | Dec 10, 2018 | Business Intelligence, Human Capital, Management & Leadership
Stop and Consider Before you take on the next assignment – Stop and Consider – is this what you really ought to be doing? The Association for Computing Machinery is not known for inspirational exhortations to a higher calling. But, in their dry, analytical way they...
by David Brian Ward | Mar 19, 2018 | Management & Leadership
In our prior posting on do I really reed a CTO?, we explained how the role of the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is often confused and that it’s often best setup as a part-time or advisory role in start-ups. But what makes a CTO successful? What makes a startup...
by Robert Boyd | Jan 17, 2018 | Insights, Management & Leadership
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is one of those job titles with widely varying definitions. As defined on Investopedia: A person in this role, “examines the short and long term needs of an organization, and utilizes capital to make investments designed to help the...
by David Brian Ward | Nov 7, 2016 | Management & Leadership
This new HBR article suggests that managers will increasingly rely on AI in the future. Here’s my take: AI Management The authors point to tasks like giving staff scheduling to “AI”. But that’s more like an app within an ERP system than AI...
by David Brian Ward | Oct 24, 2016 | Management & Leadership
HBR’s article suggests that because a firm’s self-interest and profitability derives from a value chain within an economic ecosystem, then the sustainability of that ecosystem justifies heightened investment. Large firms have a huge number of interactions...
by David Brian Ward | Sep 27, 2016 | Management & Leadership
Tech managers usually adopt an “ignore politics” attitude. Overall it has worked OK for us over the years, because demand for our products and services has continued to grow no matter which idiot gets elected. Ignoring politics also allows tech leaders to...
