Category: CTO Career

Since launching CTO Academy, we’ve received the occasional enquiry from a CIO saying, “hey, what about us …. we want equal rights”or, words to that effect. So we thought it a useful moment,  particularly as we have a growing number of CIO subscribers, to look into some of the differences between the CTO and CIO roles.

Whilst DevOps is a relatively new role it’s one that allows visibility across the whole operation, making it an excellent route towards achieving senior tech positions.

The modern and effective CIO needs to build a broad range of management and softer skills that go way beyond traditional expectations of the role.

Toxic cultures are tough to change. Focus your energy instead on what really matters to you, then plan your escape.

Business analysts are responsible for bridging the gap between IT and the business using data analytics.

An Accidental CTO is someone typically working within an early stage, fast growth company and who has arrived in the senior tech role way ahead of schedule. They face a unique set of leadership challenges.

the project manager is communicating with engineers, designers, programmers, stakeholders, executive leaders, and decision makers. The whole gamut of people inside a high- tech company.

if this were a term included in the Oxford Dictionary of Terms, it might read something like … We coined this phrase in the early days of CTO Academy as we worked with many individuals who fell into one or both of these categories. So this article looks at what we define as an ‘Accidental…

For most C-suite roles there is generally a linear relationship between the skills they develop through their career and the skills required at an executive level.  The CMO has been on various marketing courses, the CFO has been mastering a balance sheet for years and the sales director comes from the school of hard cold…