CTO - Chief Technical Officer
What is a CTO?
The role of the Chief Technical Officer is to manage technical innovation and the deployment of technologies adapted to the development and efficiency of the company's activities.
His mission is to study all possible technical development possibilities for a company. He is also responsible for defining a project deployment strategy.
What are the missions of a CTO?
The CTO plays a key role in managing a company's global technology infrastructure.
His main responsibility is to develop marketable technologies, by suggesting the implementation of new technologies and supervising their development.
He is also responsible for interacting with external buyers to meet their needs, and for ensuring that the necessary budget is established for IT projects.
The CTO is also responsible for managing customer support, customer interactions and content delivery to customers. His main objective is to develop new technologies in order to increase the company's revenues, open up new sales opportunities and strengthen brand awareness. He therefore places great importance on marketing activities to achieve these objectives.
As the company's external representative, the technical manager needs to have solid marketing skills.
He is responsible for maintaining open and active relationships with suppliers, customers, investors and partners. This constant, positive interaction with external stakeholders is crucial to ensuring the company's success and fostering new opportunities for collaboration and growth.
The main responsibilities of the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) are :
- Ongoing collaboration with general management, product and marketing managers to understand business challenges and define roadmap priorities.
- Technology watch
- Manage projects, evaluate technologies, anticipate future technological developments.
- Organize production, assess development workloads, budgets and roadmap.
- Guarantee the technical excellence, modularity and scalability of our solutions.
- Improve organization and internal processes
- Recruiting developers
- Manage, structure and stimulate the work of developers (back-end, front-end, infrastructure, etc.).
- Ensure the cohesion and mobilization of the technical team, so that it takes ownership of the project and gives its best for a fast delivery and high quality.
- Propose service evolution.
- Manage relations with various service providers.
- Set up audits, controls and certifications.
- Ensure regular reporting on roadmap progress.
What skills does a CTO have?
Risk management
As CTO, it is essential to understand and manage the technological risks a company may face. This involves identifying potential vulnerabilities, implementing appropriate security measures, monitoring and assessing risks, and developing mitigation plans in the event of a problem. The CTO must also be able to make informed risk management decisions, weighing up the potential benefits and negative consequences of each technological decision.
A broad knowledge of new technologies
A CTO must have in-depth technical expertise in the fields of new information and communication technologies (NICT). This includes an understanding of emerging technology trends, computer architectures, networks, IT security, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning and other related fields. This knowledge enables him/her to make informed decisions regarding technological development within the company.
Solid practical experience in the use of technology within a company
This involves understanding how different technologies can be applied to meet business needs, evaluating the technology solutions available on the market, making decisions about purchasing and implementing technology solutions, and managing the technical teams responsible for maintaining and optimizing IT systems.
Good project management skills
As CTO, it is often necessary to manage complex technology projects involving several departments or teams within the company. The CTO must be able to coordinate these cross-functional projects, define objectives, deadlines and resource requirements, supervise the teams involved, resolve any problems and ensure that projects are completed on time and to specification.
Involvement in IT research and development
A CTO needs to keep abreast of the latest technological advances and best practices in IT development. The CTO must be able to anticipate technological opportunities and integrate them into the company's strategy.
Legal skills
Particularly in e-commerce law: In a constantly evolving digital environment, a CTO needs to be aware of the legal issues involved in e-commerce.
Why call on a CTO for interim management?
The experience of an IT Transition Manager is a fast and efficient response to your Chief Technical Officer needs. His knowledge and experience are indisputable assets when it comes to meeting a one-off need, as he is quickly up and running.
Thanks to his or her IT expertise and management experience, an interim CTO can quickly understand the challenges of technical innovation and the deployment of technologies adapted to the development and efficiency of a company's activities, and help it to achieve its objectives.
Infortive Transition, a specialist in IT Transition Management, thanks to its experience and its network of IT Transition Managers, will be able to meet your CTO needs.