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TechnicalLeadership

BusinessOrientation

CustomerOrientation

People Skills

ExecutiveLeadership

FinancialManagement

CTO Self-Assessment Radar

CTO Skill levels description

Level 0: ?!?!

Never heard about that!

Level 1: Novice

Rule based behavior, strongly limited and inflexible

Level 2: Experienced Beginner

Incorporates aspects of the situation and context

Level 3: Practitioner

Act consciously taking into account long term goals and plans

Level 4: Knowledgeable practitioner

Sees the situation as a whole and acts from personal conviction, invents and

introduces small scale innovations

Level 5: Expert

Has an intuitive understanding of the situation and zooms in on the central aspects,

has an easy and creative way of doing things, invents and introduces large scale

innovations

Technical

Leadership

- Serves as the company’s top technology expert and leader

- Manages the physical technology infrastructure including network and systems management

- Has to be a creative and innovative technologist to be successful

Business

Orientation

- Develops IT strategies in collaboration with Business to increase the company’s top line (revenue)

- Uses technology to enhance the company’s digital product offerings

- Provides effective means to Business to differentiate, to increase competitive advantage and to innovate

products

- Aligns the company’s product architecture with business priorities

Customers

Orientation

- Collaborates and manages vendors that supply solutions to enhance the company’s product(s)

- Focuses on external customers (buyers)

CTO Skills description

CTO Skills description

People Skills

- Manages and grows the organization’s engineering group

- Fosters interactions and collaborations inside IT and between Business and IT

- Strategically resources, grows and develops skills and capabilities as required to achieve desired business

outcomes.

Executive

Leadership

- Effective communication – both technically, and non-technically with the ability to translate between the two.

- Effective peer collaboration, good relationships quality and credibility with other executives

- Aligns IT with the business

- Evolves IT governance framework, operating model in collaboration with Business and sponsor an effective way

of working that fits the company culture products and markets

Financial

Management- Develops IT financial management systems.

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