What teams report to the CTO at your organization? Does this structure make sense to you? Share why in the comments.

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CIOa year ago

The CTO has a small organization to help them specifically with research, etc. but we intentionally do not have anyone else report to them so that they can be perfectly objective and able to focus solely on their development of technical strategy for the organization.

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