Body of work

Systemic CTO

Technology leadership is the design and stewardship of a complex production system.

A CTO does not operate a collection of projects.

They shape an interconnected system of architecture, organisation, constraints, decisions and economics.

Systems thinking

See interactions, feedback loops and second-order effects—not isolated initiatives.

Treat architecture as a living decision system that directs change.

Understand structure, incentives and interfaces as parts of the production system.

Find the limiting factor before increasing capacity elsewhere.

Improve the quality, latency and reversibility of consequential decisions.

Connect technology choices to flow, options, risk and enterprise value.