Surviving & Thriving through the Crisis - Notes from 26 March
The output from a Peer Group Round Table for CEOs, CTOs, & CPOs on 26 March 2020 After the initial rush of getting people laptops, and feeling the pain of …
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10 Reasons to Avoid Equity when Hiring your CTO
If you’re a business owner and you’re serious about scaling your business, don’t give away equity too easily. A Chief Technology Officer (CTO) who is going to turn your vision …
Surviving & Thriving through Crisis with Product and Technology
These are turbulent times. We have gone through the initial pain of moving teams to a virtual business, and customers now only able to interact via phone and internet. It …
6 ways to go virtual and still scale.
As a business owner, CEO, or COO, you might have felt under increased pressure over the last few years, to go virtual. The market is telling you to hire off-shore, …
Breaking up with your favourite brand is hard to do
Have you ever been loyal to a brand and then just moved? Isn’t it strange how emotional that can feel when it is just a product? I have always loved …
A Balanced Business – The 3 legged stool and 5 key roles
When you think of the great successes in businesses – like Pixar, Apple, Microsoft it’s easy to remember the visionary, the driver. However success came from collaboration. The visionary’s success …
(Self) Awareness and Choice – the unlock to innovation and growth
How much certainty do you need before you can make a decision at work? There are so many business methods and tips out there. There are many companies promising riches. …
5 tips to maintain the flexibility of your technical architecture.
A ridged technical architecture need not be a bottleneck to growth. Your technical architecture can be a significant bottleneck. Even if your platform can support growing user or transaction volumes. …
The 8 C’s for Effective Governance
Meetings can feel like the bane of our life. “I have too many meetings, to do my job”. They can cause burn out, or the team are always in meetings …
Three tips for prioritising product & technology for scale ups
Without prioritisation a business can be spread too thin When there is so much to do as a business, how do you get your product and technology to prioritise on …