CEOs who know something isn’t right but can’t pinpoint what
You’re smart enough to know technology matters. You’re just not technical enough to evaluate whether your CTO is actually effective.
The symptoms CEOs see
If three or more of these hit home, we should talk.
Your tech team costs $1.5M a year and you can’t tell what you’re getting for it
Projects run late regularly and explanations keep changing
Your CTO is technically strong but you’re not sure they’re leading
You can’t get a straight answer about what’s actually happening in the function
Priorities keep shifting and nobody seems to notice except you
Your best developers seem frustrated or disengaged
Technology feels like a cost centre, not a strategic advantage
You’ve considered replacing the CTO but you’re not sure it’ll fix the problem
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The dilemma every CEO faces
You can see the problem but you can’t diagnose it. So you face the same choice every frustrated CEO faces:
Wait too long and the slow bleed continues. Another year of spending $1.5M on activity, not outcomes. Your best developers leave. Competitors move faster. The gap between where you are and where you need to be keeps growing.
Move too early and you fire the CTO, hire a replacement, and the cycle repeats. Six months of disruption. Twelve months to get the new person up to speed. And you still don’t know if it was a people problem or a system problem.
There’s a third option. Get evidence. Figure out what’s actually broken before you make a change. That’s what the Techshin Partners diagnostic gives you.
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