CTO Forum

RETHINK STRATEGY – Strategic Leadership of Technology and Innovation – 2015

May 12, 13, 14 and 15, 2015

RETHINK STRATEGY

Strategic Leadership of Technology and Innovation

This exclusive executive education program is a collaboration of CTO Forum and Harvard Business School. The program aims at identifying, examining, and overcoming the challenges that senior technology and business executives face in fostering a culture of smart innovation, corporate renewal, and systemic growth in well-established organizations.

Smart innovation, not financial engineering, acts as the wellspring of competitive differentiation, industry leadership,
and positioning for long-term success in an increasingly competitive global marketplace. Incremental advances are no longer enough, and only brilliant innovation can propel an organization to the forefront of an industry.

ADDRESSING CHALLENGES, HOW TO:

  • Build indispensable organizations for long-term relevance and competitiveness
  • Differentiate ideas, frameworks and strategies to ensure sustainable innovation
  • Prevent degeneration and stagnancy once firms become successful
  • Maintain passion, imagination and deeper employee engagement for the long run

KEY LEARNING AND TAKEAWAYS:

  • Master the design rules for systemic innovation as part of strategy
  • Prevail against entrenched bias to launch a game-changing agenda
  • Transform innovation from an occasional act into predictable capability
  • Recognize and address “strategy decay” cycles to ensure relevance
  • Understand the essence of ambidextrous organizational architecture
  • Harness “cognitive surplus” in the workforce to create business value

BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION OPPORTUNITIES:

  • Implementation of innovation strategies overcoming corporate inertia
  • Enablement of principles of ambidexterity to grow current and future markets
  • Invigoration of internal corporate venture, R&D, M&A and incubation.

Executives specifically recommended to attend include:

  • CEOs, Presidents, COOs, and Chief Innovation & Strategy Officers
  • CTOs, VPs of Engineering, VPs of Product, and Director R&D Labs
  • CIOs, IT CTOs, VPs of Development, and VPs of IT (all areas)

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS & PANELISTS

Alex Gourlay
President, Walgreen Co.
Andrés Gulls
President & CEO, The AES Corporation
Ralph Izzo
Chairman and CEO,  Public Service Enterprise Group
Roger Krone
Chairman and CEO, Leidos
Raymond Quinlan
Chairman and CEO, Sallie Mae
Martin Richenhagen
Chairman, President and CEO, AGCO Corporation
Joe Burton
Chief Executive Officer & President, Poly, Inc.
Scott Charney
CVP for Trustworthy Computing, Microsoft
Scott Crowder
SVP and CIO, BMC Software 
Jeff Donaldson
SVP of Technology Institute, GameStop
Robert Fraley
EVP & CTO, Monsanto
Marc Frons
SVP and CIO, New York Times
Omkaram Nalamasu
SVP and Chief Technology Officer, Applied Materials
Marcus Weldon
President, Bell Labs
Gary VonderHaar
CTO, Architecture, Mastercard

FACULTY

Dr. Stefan H. Thomke, Ph.D.
William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Dr. Srikant Datar, Ph.D.
Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Dr. Marco Iansiti, Ph.D.
David Sarnoff Professor  of Business Administration, Harvard Business School 
Dr. Karim Lakhani, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Dr. Alan MacCormack, Ph.D.
MBA Class of 1949 Adjunct Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Jez Humble
Co-Author of the Jolt Award winning book “Continuous Delivery”
James Barrese
Chief Technology Officer & Senior Vice President, Payment Services Business, PayPal