CTO Forum

RETHINK STRATEGY® – Strategic Leadership of Technology and Innovation – 2018

July 29 – August 1, 2018

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
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
  • 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)

FACULTY

Dr. Stefan Thomke
William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
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Dr. Sunil Gupta
Edward W. Carter Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Dr. Warren McFarlan
TJ Dermot Dunphy Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Dr. Ranjay Gulati
Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration;  Chair, Advanced Management Program, Harvard Business School
Dr. Marco Iansiti
David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Dr. Michael Tushman
Paul R. Lawrence Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Dr. Nien-he Hsiehi
Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Michael L. Tipsord
Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer, State Farm
Lance M. Fritz
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Union Pacific.
Steven C. Voorhees
Chief Executive Officer, WestRock Company
Tom Hayes
President and Chief Executive Officer, Tyson Foods
Stuart Miller
Executive Chairman, Lennar Corporation
Stefan Schenk
President and Chief Executive Officer, TD Group US Holdings
Patrick Bass
Chief Executive Officer, thyssenkrupp North America
Walmart EVP & CTO, Jeremy King
Jeremy King
Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Offcier, Walmart
Deepak Krishnamurthy
Executive Vice President & Chief Strategy Officer, SAP
Fidelma Russo
Chief Technology  Officer, Iron Mountain
Sarah Riley
IT Director of Technical Platforms, Monsanto Company
Scott Crowder
SVP and Chief Information Officer, BMC Software
Radhika Venkatraman
Head of Technology, Data & Infrastructure for Global Markets & Credit Suisse Holdings (USA), Credit Suisse
Brett Wingo
Senior Vice President CIsco CX Platforms Group, CIsco Systems, Inc.
Ajay Waghray
Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Assurant, Inc.
Ryan Kean
Vice President, Technology Strategy and Architecture, The Kroger Company
Raji Arasu
Senior Vice President, Intuit Platform, Intuit
Allegra Driscoll
Managing Director, Global Markets Client & Content Technology, Credit-Suisse

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