CEO Tech Tips

APRIL 9, 2021

One of the first inquiries I get from non-technical founders is, when do I need a CTO? To answer that, you first need to understand how a CTO fits into your organization. If you are building a company reliant on technology and you don’t have a technical co-founder, I’d tell you that you’d need a CTO from day one.

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CEO Tech Tips

APRIL 9, 2021

One of the first inquiries I get from non-technical founders is, when do I need a CTO? To answer that, you first need to understand how a CTO fits into your organization. If you are building a company reliant on technology and you don’t have a technical co-founder, I’d tell you that you’d need a CTO from day one.

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CIO

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Each Hangar houses agile coaches, business analysts, data and analytics specialists, product owners, Scrum masters, software engineers, and user interface designers — all with one mission: to elevate the airlines’ digital customer experience before, during, and after the flight. Experience is not only the cherry on the cake.”

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CIO

MAY 18, 2023

For grasping artificial intelligence Sherry Comes, former CTO at IBM Watson and current managing director of conversational AI at PwC, thinks you need to read Age of Invisible Machines: A Practical Guide to Creating a Hyperautomated Ecosystem of Intelligent Digital Workers (Wiley, 2022) by Robb Wilson. CTO and co-founder of Digibee.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

But as I aged, had project successes, earned budget and decision-making authority, and gained more confidence, power, etc., Soon after founding Netwatch Solutions as CTO, Beasley realized he would face even more barriers when acquiring funding. Beasley’s father was in the US Air Force, and so as a youth, Beasley moved worldwide.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

“It seems to be an increasing worry — worry over whether the enterprise is secure and its data is protected, because everything else falls to the wayside if that’s not taken care of first,” says John Buccola, CTO of E78 Partners, which provides consulting and managed services in finance technology and other professional areas.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Digging through research examining the impact of standard conventions like siloed teams and staged gate processes, Arooni began percolating ideas for how to shift IT organizations away from the traditional project-oriented culture to something more agile, with greater business accountability and more responsiveness to changing customer needs. “We

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CIO

APRIL 14, 2023

That componentization is key, says Andrew Peterson, CTO of executive search firm Riviera Partners, a longtime user of low-code development tools. Organizations with the most experience leveraging low-code and no-code tools have also set up centers of excellence (CoEs) to advise lines of business on which tool to use and when, she says. “Do

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CIO

APRIL 20, 2023

There is a need and realization by the business world to be more environmentally sustainable since organizations are seeing an impact on the bottom line as a direct result of climate change. Like anything, the hard work is the initial assessment,” says CGI director of business consulting and CIO advisor Sean Sadler.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Cybsafe Some organizations are tailoring their social policies to be more inclusive, such as at security awareness training firm Cybsafe. A senior technology executive says she was once ignored by a vendor in a sales pitch, despite being the most senior executive in the room and having the final sign-off on budget.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Indeed, Statista found that organizations spent around 23% of their annual IT budgets on quality assurance and testing between 2012 and 2019. Perl was previously the head of technology at home service booking platform Dispatch and the CTO of pharmacy supply chain firm Zipdrug. ” QA Wolf promises a lot.

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CIO

JUNE 26, 2023

The expanding remit has elevated CIO stature within the organization and delivered a set of leadership skills and experiences more closely aligned with what’s required for the CEO. Hart leveraged CIO, CISO, CTO, and consulting positions to accelerate his trajectory and was named CEO of Segra, a fiber networking company, last year.

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Honeycomb

MAY 29, 2024

As our Field CTO Liz Fong-Jones says , production excellence is important for cloud-native software organizations because it ensures a safe, reliable, and sustainable system for an organization’s customers and employees. A CoPE helps organizations cultivate the practices and tools necessary to achieve that consistently.

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CIO

OCTOBER 4, 2022

An individual organization with a turnover rate of 20% before the pandemic could face a turnover rate as high as 24% in 2022 and the years to come,” says Piers Hudson, senior director in the Gartner HR practice. This would have not only impacted our budget but would have also created an imbalance in the IT department.

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CIO

AUGUST 4, 2023

Transitioning from mechanical challenges, the global freight organization has embraced more intricate trials, those of remote management, digitization, and preserving technical expertise and quality in the face of emerging obstacles. Initially, I was naïve about the infrastructure space, but was fortunate to have a great mentor.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

I seem to encounter a lot of people who want to attach a CTO label to me as I'm the only programmer on the founding team of three. While I do fill that role at the moment, I'm a little hesitant to refer to myself as a CTO as we still haven't launched a product, acquired a single user, or turned or a penny in profit.

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CIO

AUGUST 2, 2023

It requires engaging stakeholders across the organization, not just within IT, and having expertise in both the legacy application and the cloud you’re moving to,” says Steve Woodgate, strategic advisor at managed cloud service provider Navisite. Varerkar also advises against rebuilding an app from scratch.

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CIO

OCTOBER 14, 2022

IT organizations are increasingly shifting from project-based organizational structures to product-based methodologies , which involve cross-functional teams. We spoke to a host of experts, including product managers and those who supervise, hire, and mentor them, about what you should be looking for if you’re hiring a new PM for your team.

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Blue Sentry

AUGUST 29, 2023

AWS Cost Management Tool Overview with Todd Bernson The AWS Cost Explorer AWS Cost and Usage Report AWS Resources Cloud Strategy & DevOps Services TRANSCRIPT: Hi, I’m Todd Bernson – CTO at Blue Sentry Cloud and an AWS Ambassador with 12 AWS certifications. Automating cost optimization is another principle of the cost pillar.

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Blue Sentry

AUGUST 29, 2023

TRANSCRIPT: Hi, I’m Todd Bernson – CTO at Blue Sentry Cloud and an AWS Ambassador with 12 AWS certifications. Amazon Web Services or AWS is a cloud computing platform that offers a wide range of services and tools for businesses and organizations. Automating cost optimization is another principle of the cost pillar.

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CIO

JULY 27, 2023

It’s becoming more common to sell digital solutions outside of the traditional IT scope, which has created more reasons to invest in relationships with CIOs at customer organizations. Strong peer relationships are vital for making strategic decisions, she says, pointing to her relationship with Johnson Controls CTO Vijay Sankaran.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

No matter how much irresponsibility on the part of leadership or others within the organization may have contributed to said demise, the majority of the company’s employees likely worked very hard to help it be successful and don’t deserve to be mocked or ridiculed, even if not directly. More on this topic later).

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CIO

JULY 13, 2023

As Seth Dobbs, CTO at Bounteous, explains, “We do creative work. He had this whole other background to draw from and brought diversity of thought right into the organization. Bringing in an IT person who is highly skilled in a specific area can work well for the company budget — allowing you to scale up and down quickly.

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CTOvision

APRIL 12, 2017

The chief technology officer (CTO) and chief executive officer must work together for the good of the company. The CTO is responsible for focusing on technological matters, such as computers, websites and social networking. Work With the Same Advisor. A typical CEO works closely with an advisor to make strategic decisions.

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UruIT

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Find out 8 insightful conferences for CTOs that you should attend in 2019. As a CTO of UruIT, a nearshore development agency , I’ve seen first-hand how being a lifelong learner can lead to exciting opportunities for me and for my company. If you’re a CTO, I highly recommend attending a conference for all of the above reasons.

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GreenBar

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Lifecycle Pricing When I’m budgeting a software project I think about the entire software lifecycle, my version of which I list below. This can include reviewing the software’s organization and readability and examining the technical decisions implicit in it. Once again, look for a contractor with matching experience.

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Tenable

JANUARY 31, 2024

A wide array of cloud-based infrastructure and business systems is currently in use at most organizations, including virtual machines and containers as well as customer relationship management (CRM) and human resources management systems. Which of the following cloud infrastructural technologies does your organization currently use?

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CTOvision

MARCH 27, 2014

research and education organizations to solve common technology challenges, and to develop innovative solutions in support of their educational, research, clinical and community service missions. Ensures that the organization’s IT infrastructure is secured based on the assessed risk to the organization and the community it serves.

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TechFides Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2020

As a CIO for 25+ years he was the internal advisor to C-Level Executives of high growth entrepreneurial organizations. Most recently at Behringer’s peak he delivered CIO services to 15 organizations concurrently. What do you see as some of your biggest challenges trying to come in and fill that void, whether for the CIO or CTO?

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Daniel Bryant

JUNE 9, 2023

Sam made the point that not only were these tactics cost-effective (in comparison with a double-platinum, all-singing, blow-the-budget official conference sponsorship), but they also repeatedly exposed event attendees to the brand at a series of key touchpoints.

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Capgemini

MARCH 5, 2020

This requires agility and scalability across organizations, and that means moving away from legacy systems to a flexible cloud -based model, which often begins with the process of application modernization. We also learned it was better to coach individuals instead of simply implementing the DevOps model across the technical teams.

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Apiumhub

OCTOBER 18, 2022

On October 3-4 we organized and hosted the Global Software Architecture Summit in Barcelona. The event took place at the Barcelona International Convention Center, which has become a benchmark in Europe as a venue for the organization of events and congresses. He is a frequent presenter at national and international conferences.

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Altexsoft

JUNE 16, 2020

There are dozens of definitions for a software or technical architect, but in most general terms a person holding this position drives all critical decisions about the organization of the software system. How a software architect fits into the organization structure. This expert defines. Software architect vs senior developer.

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d2iq

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

In quite a few organizations, data scientists can be heard complaining about data engineers being too slow in providing high-quality data sets. The K9s CEO states to the executive team that she wants to increase online sales by a 10% without changing marketing strategy or budget. ML engineer: Feedback loops.

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CircleCI

MAY 21, 2020

Trying to implement a number of ‘features’ to a deadline and budget is often necessary but if every change to your software happens this way then that short term focus never leads to longer term consideration of the product or platform and it’s quality properties. Fast appropriate feedback. Illustration 1: Ecosystems feedback.

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PowerSchool

MARCH 15, 2019

a former superintendent in two Pennsylvania school districts and current Lead Strategic Education Advisor for PowerSchool. Tony Davis, a former educator for 28 years and current Strategic Education Advisor for PowerSchool, dives deeper to explain tech’s role at multiple levels. Lange, Ed.D., It’s really like a marriage.

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The Kini Group

DECEMBER 5, 2016

My team and I are seeing this role become more prevalent among Fortune 500 and even mid-market businesses as the responsibilities become too much to share for a CTO and CFO. In fact, Gartner estimates that by 2019, 90% of major organizations will have a CDO. Is your company ready for its first Chief Data Officer? Eliminate Data Silos.

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