Career CTO Operations 
N2Growth Blog
MARCH 24, 2025
Currently Managing Director at Google, she has built a career focused on cross-functional leadership, large-scale business growth, and executive alignment. Her expertise spans customer-centric innovation, operational leadership, and leadership development in global organizations.
N2Growth Blog
OCTOBER 25, 2021
To tackle these issues, for the past five years, the new trend in executive hiring has been the Chief Transformation Officer (CTO) role. This is where the CTO role gets into the spotlight. Step 4: Operations alignment. All organizations must face major transformations while working to advance in their industry. And why is that?
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N2Growth Blog
DECEMBER 1, 2019
I led a discussion on leadership principles and mindset and let the room evolve into an open debate on what was working and what was harmful in day to day operations. Still, all agreed that individuals, no matter at what point in their career, can decide to change and become better in the art and science of leading. Conclusion.
Skip Prichard
MARCH 13, 2020
Jobs most at risk: machine operators and assemblers, clerical workers, elementary occupations, crafts and related trades. You could argue that all jobs are at risk: Machines can already analyze data, pick stocks, make decisions that touch on operational efficiency and logistics, sift through resumes and make hiring decisions, etc.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 1, 2017
When I launched my first company in 2008 (CarZen, acquired by Liberty Mutual), one of my first hires was a CTO. I made him the CTO’s protégé, and had the CTO spend time teaching and evaluating him. I made him the CTO’s protégé, and had the CTO spend time teaching and evaluating him.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 24, 2018
How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Because operational managers are closer to the action, they have better insights into specific business challenges and customer pain points that can be addressed by new technologies. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 26, 2015
Starting a global engineering operation “essentially doubles the expense for 6-12 months,” says former Informatica CTO, James Markarian. In fact, costs go up initially. He goes on to say that global engineering initiatives “are like start-ups and can fail easily or deliver sub-par results and can quickly flame out.
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