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As technology continues to evolve, the role of platform engineering teams is shifting from mere support to strategic business enablers. They're no longer just maintaining systems, but building and operating the platforms that power your organization's digital transformation. 💻 In today's fast-paced digital landscape, CIOs need to adapt and invest in platform engineering teams to stay ahead of the competition. By doing so, you'll be able to: 🔄 Drive innovation and experimentation 🔒 Ensure scalability and reliability 💡 Foster collaboration and agility Stay ahead of the curve and join the conversation! Share your thoughts on the future of IT and platform engineering teams in the comments below. 💬 #PlatformEngineering #ITTransformation #CIO #Consultnet

🚀 𝐔𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐯𝐬. 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 🚀 As a leader, I've observed that many team members struggle to differentiate between 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. They often feel that upgrading the technology stack frequently is necessary, regardless of the business need. However, this approach overlooks a crucial aspect: understanding the 𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐫'𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐬. 🔍 𝐂𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐫-𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 Team members need to put themselves in the customers' shoes to understand their problems. If upgrading to a new tech stack solves these problems, customers will be more than happy to approve the upgrade. Otherwise, resistance is inevitable. 💡𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐬 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬 Engineers must remember that they are hired not just to learn new technologies but to solve problems. The primary goal should be to address customer issues effectively. After reiterating this perspective many times during different meetings, my team finally understood its importance. 🔧 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐬 Eventually, they began proposing more realistic ideas that solve ground-level problems for our customers, rather than focusing solely on the latest tech trends. This shift has led to more meaningful and impactful innovations. 𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐓𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲: It's essential to balance technical advancements with business needs, ensuring that every upgrade or change is driven by customer requirements and adds real value. 💬 How do you balance technical and business modernization in your teams? Share your thoughts below! Feel free to connect and DM for more insights on balancing business and technical needs. Let's drive meaningful innovations together! 🚀 #Leadership #CustomerCentric #Modernization #ProblemSolving #Innovation #TeamManagement #Technology #Engineering #CustomerFirst

The most significant roadblock to implementing a #smartfactory strategy is an organizational structure or culture that resists change. What can you do to overcome this roadblock? > Find your champion and start small. > Identify a single process or product to test new tech with the support of open-minded workers. > Focus a manageable budget to address measurable variables. > Let the tech speak for itself through hands-on pilot programs. Read “A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Managing Change” in the June Manufacturing Leadership Journal for additional insights from PTC: https://bit.ly/3LnOnA3. #MLJournal

Key Considerations for Tech Decisions To wrap up my series on tech leadership and simplification, here are key factors to consider when making technology decisions: 1. **Dev Setup**: Prioritize simple, reproducible environments. 2. **Infra Cost**: Consider long-term financial impacts. 3. **Maintenance**: Simpler systems are easier to maintain. 4. **Sales & Marketing Impact**: Ensure tech choices support these functions. 5. **Customer Adoption**: Aim for better user experience through simplicity. 6. **Team Expertise**: Align with your team's skills or learning goals. 7. **Ecosystem**: Choose technologies with robust community support. The way forward? Bridge the gap between leadership and development teams. Cultivate honest communication, continuous learning, and genuine bottom-up innovation. How does your organization approach tech decisions? What factors do you prioritize? #TechDecisions #EngineeringLeadership #ContinuousImprovement

IT leaders are reassessing organizational structures to be more on the front foot regarding strong skills sets, collaborative team culture, and the right tooling.

🚀 Aligning Engineering Decisions with Business Goals: A Strategic Approach In today's fast-paced business environment, ensuring that engineering decisions align with business objectives is crucial for sustainable success. Here's how we can achieve this alignment effectively: ▪️ Establish Criteria: Define clear decision-making criteria that align with business goals. Focus on ROI, customer impact, and strategic relevance to guide decisions. ▪️ Use Standardized Processes: Implement standardized processes such as RACI (Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed) to ensure clarity and accountability in decision-making. ▪️ Document Decisions: Document decisions thoroughly, including the rationale and expected business impact. This transparency ensures that everyone understands the "why" behind decisions. ▪️Regular Reviews: Past decisions are reviewed regularly to assess their alignment with business goals and outcomes. This helps refine the decision-making process continually. ▪️ Cross-functional Input: Gather input from all relevant departments to ensure well-rounded decisions that consider all business aspects. This collaboration fosters a more holistic approach to problem-solving. By adopting these strategies, we can ensure that our engineering efforts are technically sound and strategically aligned with our business objectives. Let's continue bridging the engineering and business, driving our organizations towards greater success! 💼🔧 #Engineering #BusinessGoals #DecisionMaking #Leadership #Strategy #Collaboration

Digital transformation can significantly enhance business efficiency, enable data-driven decision-making, lower operational costs, support employees, and improve customer service. However, many leadership teams face challenges when implementing tech changes. Why? These initiatives often stall or spiral out of control because of resistance to change, lack of clear strategy, insufficient expertise, and inadequate resources. Overcoming these hurdles requires strong leadership, a well-defined roadmap, continuous training, and effective change management strategies. Would you agree? #DigitalTransformation #TechTrends #Innovation #Success #Change

There's no gainsaying that the role of technology is to deliver business value by driving efficiency. I once worked for an organization with a complex & outdated technological landscape that failed to deliver the Agility & innovation that its business demanded. The operations & development teams were overwhelmed with maintaining software compatibility, update cycles, end-of-life deadlines, aging infrastructure, & old security policies. They had little time to focus on delivering positive business outcomes. The leaders—instead of blaming themselves for focusing only on Features & refusing to take the long view to ensure that they made provisions that enabled the architectural runway to be regularly extended &, by so doing, avoid technological obsolescence & the need for wholesale replacement of components, which would otherwise grind the continuous delivery pipeline to a halt—continuously blamed the developers. #toxicleadership

I guarantee that your staff have ideas that would make your company better and more efficient if they were implemented. But even if you were to sit down and listen to each of them individually and collect all of their ideas, you might not find the ones that would work. Why? Because the collective creativity of your team is very likely greater than the creativity of one member. This is why consultants often get brought into a company to re-work processes and systems. More often than not, the consultant doesn't actually know what will make your company better. But they do know how to work with your team to develop and collaborate on ideas internally. And, just as important, they are typically hired by the executive team of a company, so they are a direct pipeline of those ideas to the top. So here's a Friday pondering for you: How could you create a creative environment and pipeline within your company that lasts long after any external influence is gone? --------   If you found this insightful, consider re-sharing ♻️ and follow me to continue seeing posts about innovation and automation in engineering firms.   #Innovation #Leadership #Communication #Collaboration #Creativity #Automation #AECIndustry

A clear, forward-thinking vision and a robust implementation strategy are key to successful #leadership in tech. But the real value lies in the work we put into strategically bringing that vision to life. It takes meticulously aligning our technological pursuits with our #corevalues and ensuring that every step we take is a step toward #meaningfulinnovation. This hard work and dedication fuels true innovation. It inspires us to blend ambition with practicality to create a future that's advanced, purposeful, and reflective of our deepest principles. And learning how to create that vision is step one. https://loom.ly/07Gl53g