How to be an effective CTO

A CTO’s job combines Culture, Technology, and Operations.

A CTO’s role fuses together Culture, Technology, and Operations. Each of the three is essential; a field of understanding, experimentation, and teaching in its own right; and interrelated with the other two. To thrive as a CTO, you must focus on and continually master all three areas. If you’d like to visualize the functions of a CTO, here is a thought map showing tasks CTOs are accountable for.

Culture

Culture, as the starting point of a CTO’s work, is the response to who you are as an organization. A CTO’s role begins with the culture they build, progress, and lead by example. Culture can be described as the collective of people, insights, and practices in a group linked by associations, values, and aims. The people in a CTO’s position consist of internal stakeholders and partners, engineering and product teams, partners, and external customers. As CTO, it is your duty to support constructive collaboration among them. Frequent exchange of knowledge among members and teams is indispensable for a culture to be developed, maintained, and developed.

As CTO, you are responsible for assembling, updating, and sharing knowledge among your teams, stakeholders, and customers. Observed behaviors demonstrate your culture as it really is. Verbal declarations are…