""The best CTOs in the world are going to be the ones that are saying to even the 51-year-old or 61-year-old or 71-year-old CEOs, 'You can do this too,'" says Prince, whose company provides customers with tools to protect and improve the performance of their websites. "And if you can do that, it's going to actually help you build better companies.""
"In my previous life as a technology journalist, I wrote and edited countless stories about corporate chief technology officers (CTOs) emerging as key partners to their counterparts in the C-suite. When marketing functions became more data-driven, chief marketing officers clamored for attention from product and engineering. Today, chief financial officers (CFOs) push tech leaders to drive companies' productivity gains from software and automation even as they scrutinize tech buying decisions."
Chief technology officers are evolving into strategic partners for CEOs as AI and software reshape corporate priorities. Marketing and finance functions previously pushed tech leaders to deliver data-driven and productivity outcomes, and now CEOs must collaborate directly with CTOs to implement AI beyond novelty use cases. Cloudflare leadership described CTOs encouraging executives of all ages to adopt practical AI tools that improve operations and customer-facing systems. Practical adoption includes automating workflows, protecting and improving website performance, and influencing company-wide technology buying and governance. Global software CEOs echoed the need for CTO-CEO alignment at Davos.
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