Hi gang, it’s been a little while since I published anything here so apologies for that. However, I wanted to share one last thing before the year is out and it’s my latest article for The Weave. As always, there is a brief excerpt here and you can read the rest on The Weave’s page. Let me know what you think. Do you agree?
You may think that being a chief technology officer (CTO) of a company might be driving your business to the latest and most innovative technologies, to be on the cutting edge of what is on offer. However, the opposite could be the case.
I love technology and gadgets but keeping that under control in my personal life has certainly been a struggle, so when I started working for The Weave and was tasked with sculpting the technology needs, I was thrilled. Now I would get to play with all the latest toys to create the best experience for our members and make us supremely productive at the same time. As I looked more into my role and purpose within the business and sought advice from other professionals, I began to see that my mindset was wrong for several reasons.
It could be a costly decision
As I have found from my passion for being an early adopter of technology (for example, electric vehicles) there are great benefits and experiences to be had, but there are also words of caution that should be heeded. In your own time and with patience is fine to be a pioneer of the novel and exciting, but when you have responsibilities to a business then you should think twice. Any change to a system, a process or an implementation of technology will inevitably have knock-on effects. There is the time it takes for any change to happen, the cost of moving from an established system to something new and the fear that if something goes wrong then your business could be negatively impacted. Often when adopting something new, you do so with the implicit understanding that you are as much a tester as a customer.
