Tech choices: CIO or CTO?
Thoughtworks Technology Podcast
Thoughtworks
4.5 • 58 Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
The technology choices that businesses make are fast becoming key factors in creating great products and great customer experiences. But who should be responsible for those choices: the CIO or the CTO.
Our regular co-hosts Zhamak Dehghani and Mike Mason are joined by ThoughtWorks’ very own CTO (and erstwhile podcast host) Rebecca Parsons and principal consultant, Marcelo de Santis, who has previously been both a CIO and CTO at large multinational companies. Together they explore how modern businesses can get the technology leadership they need.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone and welcome to another episode of ThoughtWorks podcast. |
| 0:08.7 | I'm Jamek Deghani, one of your hosts today, and I'm here with my co-hosts Mike Mason. |
| 0:13.4 | Hi, Mike. |
| 0:14.3 | Hi, Jemak, hi, everyone. |
| 0:16.0 | We are going to cover the topic of the role of a CIO and CTO in today's organizations. |
| 0:24.4 | And we have two guests today, Rebecca Parsons and Marcella DeSantini. |
| 0:29.0 | Welcome. |
| 0:29.8 | Thank you, Shemak. |
| 0:30.8 | My name is Rebecca Parsons. |
| 0:32.4 | I'm the chief technology officer for ThoughtWorks. |
| 0:35.1 | I've been with the company almost 20 years. |
| 0:39.2 | And I've been the CTO actually now for a little over 10 years. Thank you, Rebecca. Happy to have you here. |
| 0:45.0 | Marcelo, would you give a little introduction? |
| 0:47.9 | Absolutely. No, thank you for having me. My name is Marcelo Desantis. I've been in ThoughtWorks |
| 0:53.5 | for six months. I'm pretty in ThoughtWorks for six months. |
| 0:54.9 | I'm pretty new. |
| 0:56.3 | I'm a principal consultant. |
| 0:58.6 | I work with companies to help them understand how we can use technology to power up |
| 1:03.5 | the business models. |
| 1:05.0 | Before ThoughtWorks, I was a CIO for Pirelli and Mondays. |
| 1:09.3 | I'm happy to be here. |
| 1:10.9 | Perfect. Glad to be here. Perfect. |
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