Tagged: leadership
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When the Architect Picks Up the Hammer
Something shifts when a senior technologist stops directing software to be built and starts building it himself, with AI as the pair. After four decades in software and twenty years away from the keyboard, the distance between intent and implementation finally collapsed. This is what that felt like, and what it revealed about experience, craft, and the future of building
The Decline of the Org Chart
For most of the last century, the challenge of organizing large groups of people around shared work produced a consistent answer: the hierarchy. Not because anyone designed it to be optimal, but because it solved five distinct coordination problems at once, and nothing simpler could do the same. Those problems are now separable. The structure built to solve them all at once is beginning to come apart, unevenly and in ways most commentary misses.
AI and the post-modern, modern data stack
of AI-powered applications and agentic AI is dramatically redefining the demands placed on data stacks. Rather than becoming irrelevant, the modern data stack is a major consideration as organisations…
Want to become a CTO? Here’s the hard truth
For anyone aiming to become a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) that means working out how to build the technical, strategic, and leadership skills to stay relevant and in demand throughout their career.…
Ambient ERP – breaking free of the enterprise software triad
Imagine a future where your back-office applications are context-aware, operating in the background, only surfacing what matters when it matters. Thanks to progress being made in artificial intelligence (AI) this is no longer a fanciful dream.
Why Agentic AI Should Be an Evolution, Not a Revolution
U.S. private AI investment grew to $109.1 billion in 2024 – leading to an “AI arms race” in which many businesses scrambled to be the first to announce shiny new capabilities. But did some tech…
Getting Ready for the AI-Fuelled Office
Everyone is talking about the impact that artificial intelligence (AI) is having (or is going to have) on the way we work. What a lot of these studies do not try to understand is what this will mean…
Programming won’t go away but extensibility is a worthwhile substitute for many tasks
Programming has made more farewells than Frank Sinatra , but the difference being that “Old Blue Eyes” eventually played one final concert, whereas programming isn’t going to go away.
Data fundamentals first, automation second
There is a lot of excitement about technology’s potential to automate tasks making our lives easier and freeing us up to do more fun things. ChatGPT is the latest in a long line of excited debates –…
Integration Isn’t Enough: The Business Case for Integration-as-a-Service
Organizations use a variety of applications to handle business tasks, and at the center of many point solutions is the enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. In an ideal state, data from various…
What the on-demand economy means for the future of work
I’ve been the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Unit4 for around three years, but I joined as Chief Architect in our innovation labs closer to eight years ago. When I arrived, many of the questions my…
How The Chief Technology Officer Became One Of The Most Important People In Business
The chief technology officer (CTO) is a recent addition to the C-suite and has quickly become a cornerstone of digital natives and hyperscalers. But every organization that develops its own software…