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Paul King shared thisGreg Smith has some great insights on AI use in Technical Dilience...Paul King shared thisAI is showing up in every corner of business, including tech due diligence. But before you hand the whole process over to an algorithm, here’s the hard truth: AI is a tool. Not a replacement for experience. It’s great at data extraction and code scanning. It’s terrible at judgment, context, relationships, and knowing when something just doesn’t feel right. The details are in our latest blog, AI in Tech Diligence: The Temptation, the Truth, and the Trade-Offs, by Greg Smith, Managing Partner of TechCXO’s Product & Technology Practice. He deep dives into where and how AI actually helps, and where you still need people who’ve been in the room, asked the tough questions, and seen what tech debt looks like up close. Get the truth: https://lnkd.in/g9D4Gewt #techduediligence #AI #techleadership #privateequity #TechCXOAI in Technical Due Diligence: Balancing Automation with Human Expertise | TechCXOAI in Technical Due Diligence: Balancing Automation with Human Expertise | TechCXO
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Paul King shared thisThese are great insights to keep in mind when considering how to implement AI in your company...Paul King shared thisIs the pressure to adopt AI making you feel like you're falling behind? The real question isn't whether you're moving fast enough, but whether you're moving smart enough. Our latest blog post cuts through the noise and provides five practical ways to apply AI for operational efficiency. Learn how to: ✅ Balance risk and benefit ✅ Learn from industry leaders ✅ Use a tiered implementation model ✅ Run a proof-of-concept workshop ✅ Choose the right build approach Stop getting lost in the hype and start focusing on tangible business outcomes. Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/gUKtEtrW #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #OperationalEfficiency #TechStrategy #BusinessGrowth5 Practical Ways to Apply AI for Operational Efficiency5 Practical Ways to Apply AI for Operational Efficiency
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Paul King shared thisIf you are interested in breaking through scaling barriers, this is for you. I've worked with Kevin on several projects, and he is the real deal!Paul King shared this"You’re trying to ship version 10 on day one. That’s why you’re stuck." In this episode of Breakthrough Innovation, we talk with Kevin Carlson, a top 50 global security leader, AI patent holder, and fractional CTO who parachutes into scaling companies at their most critical moments. Here’s what stood out: 🚨 Why “tech-led” almost never equals product-market fit 🧠 The power of radical candor: direct, kind, clear communication 🎯 Alignment ≠ consensus — and why that difference saves teams 💥 Why most innovation fails under the weight of perfectionism 🔐 Why security should never be an afterthought (especially with AI-generated threats) "If everything is high priority, nothing is." Check out all our episodes of Breakthrough Innovation YouTube - https://lnkd.in/gSM_wCfD Spotify - https://lnkd.in/gGRiGH3Q Apple - https://lnkd.in/gTKsDEXk #BreakthroughInnovation #Centered #KevinCarlson #FractionalLeadership #ScalingTech #SecurityLeadership #RadicalCandor #StartupGrowth #InnovationExecution
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Paul King reposted thisPaul King reposted thisIT due diligence isn't just for mergers and acquisitions; it's a strategic process that helps you prepare for growth. A weak IT foundation can silently sabotage your plans, from new product launches to global expansion. This blog post reveals common IT blind spots that stall growth and offers a proactive approach to identifying and fixing them. Learn how to build a scalable, resilient tech stack that supports—rather than hinders—your company's future. https://lnkd.in/gfT_MFQi #ITStrategy #DueDiligence #TechLeadership #MandAWhy IT Due Diligence Is a Growth Imperative | TechCXOWhy IT Due Diligence Is a Growth Imperative | TechCXO
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Paul King shared thisWelcome, JeffreyPaul King shared thisPlease join us in welcoming Jeffrey Brown as a Partner in TechCXO Product and Technology Practice. A technology leader with 30+ years of experience, Jeffrey’s core philosophy is to simplify complexity. He believes that startup companies should have the same access to strategic leadership as Fortune 100 companies. Jeffrey coaches leaders at every level — from first-time managers to veteran C-suite executives. He reinforces servant leadership principles, encourages them to lead with thoughtful questions, and helps them discover their authentic leadership style with confidence. His goal is to create a ripple effect, empowering leaders to inspire others and leave a lasting impact of their own. He also transforms teams into high-performance innovation engines — capable of independent decision-making, creative problem-solving, and sustainable growth without the need for constant executive oversight. As a Fractional CTO for companies including Revalgo, White Star Software, and Pick My Brain, Jeffrey combines deep technical knowledge with strategic vision. Clients often share that they gain far more value from Jeffrey than they ever expected from a CTO. Could Jeffrey be just the kind of leader you need to transform your organization? — Meet Jeffrey here: https://lnkd.in/gp-9eAew #TechCXO #FractionalCTO #TechnologyLeadership #Execution
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Paul King shared thisGreat advice for any product leader...Paul King shared thisTired of product teams getting bogged down by endless priorities? You're not alone. When everything is a priority, nothing gets done. An outcome-based roadmap can be a game-changer. It shifts the focus from a list of features to clear business goals, helping teams prioritize what truly matters. Discover how this strategic tool can bring clarity, boost focus, and cure product team overload: https://lnkd.in/gKq8tu6b #ProductManagement #ProductStrategy #OutcomeBasedRoadmapOutcome-Based Roadmap | Driving Business Growth with Clear OutcomesOutcome-Based Roadmap | Driving Business Growth with Clear Outcomes
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Paul King shared thisWith the rate of change today, organizational agility is critical!Paul King shared thisMost companies talk about agility. Few build for it. In volatile markets, the ability to shift priorities without losing momentum is what separates high-growth players from the ones stuck in “reaction mode.” But agility isn't just a mindset, it’s also infrastructure. It’s how you negotiate vendor contracts. How quickly your product teams iterate. It’s whether your leadership gaps slow you down…or don’t exist at all. Here’s how to build a company that adapts without breaking stride: https://lnkd.in/gYMNqiws Based on the TechCXO Guide: Maintaining Efficiency and Impact During Uncertain Times https://lnkd.in/gmT_9RwU #Leadership #BusinessGrowth #BusinessStrategyOrganizational Agility: Your Competitive Edge in Uncertain TimesOrganizational Agility: Your Competitive Edge in Uncertain Times
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Paul King shared thisThese are great insights from some of my colleagues at TechCXO!Paul King shared thisGrowth-stage companies are no strangers to volatility. Even in strong markets, unpredictability is the norm. The organizations that thrive aren’t just moving faster — they’re moving smarter. That's why our Product & Technology leaders created an executive guide called "Maintaining Efficiency & Impact During Uncertain Times.” In this guide, TechCXO Partners — Greg Smith, Kirby Winters, Ian Findlay, Katie Reilly, and Kevin Carlson — share pragmatic, proven strategies for building stronger, more resilient organizations, including: • How to use flexibility as a competitive advantage • Signs your product team is overwhelmed (and how to reset) • Why cybersecurity is a growth enabler — not just a safeguard • Key questions to ask in your next IT assessment • A practical model for turning AI into measurable value This is a playbook for navigating change, avoiding common pitfalls, and scaling with confidence. Download your free copy here: https://lnkd.in/d4aSGcV8 #TechCXO #GrowthStage #Leadership #ProductStrategy #Cybersecurity #AI #Innovation #BusinessGrowthMaintaining Efficiency and Impact During Uncertain Times | TechCXOMaintaining Efficiency and Impact During Uncertain Times | TechCXO
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Paul King shared thisBrian Lui would be a great addition to any team looking for product management abilities combined with data insights!Paul King shared thisI'm excited to share that I'm officially open to new opportunities! After more than 13 years as a data-driven product leader at Marriott International and Starwood Hotels, I made a deliberate choice to invest in my own growth. I recently completed a data science bootcamp at BrainStation, and the experience was truly transformative. I'm passionate about being able to blend my product expertise with a deep technical understanding to better serve future teams and drive innovation. What's really on my mind now is the growth ahead. I learned so much in just three months, and I can't wait to see what's possible with a full year of targeted training and coaching. I'm looking for a role where I can apply this unique blend of skills. My ideal next step would be a Data Scientist position, or a Product Manager role where I can work closely with data and data scientists to build innovative products. My experience includes: 🏗️ Building ML classification models to predict outcomes and assess risk. 🏢 Crafting NLP frameworks for sentiment analysis to inform product decisions. 🤝 Leading end-to-end technology projects and collaborating cross-functionally with engineers, UX, and business leaders to achieve project milestones. 📊 Developing end-to-end Tableau solutions to deliver actionable insights from complex datasets. If you know of any roles where a mix of product leadership, a passion for data, and a commitment to continuous learning would be a great fit, I'd love to connect! #OpenToWork #DataScientist #ProductManager #ProductOwner #DataAnalytics #MachineLearning #Analytics #Data #GrowthMindset #LinkedIn
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Paul King liked thisPaul King liked thisWe’re pleased to announce that Eric Faulkner has been named Managing Partner of TechCXO’s Mid-Atlantic region. Over the course of his career, Eric has built deep expertise at the intersection of technology strategy and business execution. As a CTO, CIO, and technology executive, he has led global teams, complex corporate integrations, digital modernization initiatives, and enterprise technology strategies across a range of organizations. Since joining TechCXO, Eric has worked with tech-enabled companies as a Fractional CTO and CIO, helping leadership teams navigate digital modernization, technical M&A diligence, practical AI implementation, cybersecurity, and other complex technology priorities. Prior to TechCXO, Eric served as Senior Vice President of Business Technology at 10Pearls and as CTO of both Corcentric and Determine, where he managed global technology teams, directed major corporate integrations, and oversaw global compliance standards. As Managing Partner, Eric will lead TechCXO’s growth across the Mid-Atlantic, expanding relationships with clients and executive partners across the firm’s Finance, Executive Leadership, Revenue Growth, Human Capital, and Technology practices, while continuing to serve clients directly as a Fractional CTO and CIO. Please join us in congratulating Eric on this well-deserved leadership role. Read more here >> https://lnkd.in/gtu_Sant #ExecutiveLeadership #TechnologyLeadership #FractionalLeadership #DigitalTransformationTechCXO Appoints IT Veteran Eric Faulkner as Mid-Atlantic Managing PartnerTechCXO Appoints IT Veteran Eric Faulkner as Mid-Atlantic Managing Partner
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Paul King reacted on thisPaul King reacted on thisI'm thrilled to share that Compliance & Risks is now officially Adherent! While we've been hard at work building the new Adherent product compliance platform, we've also been planning this corporate rebrand. We've been able to talk about the incredible innovation going into the product, and today we can finally share the new company name! It's not just that it's a cool name, but it represents the next chapter in our history. AI is no longer an add-on or merely a productivity booster. It's woven into the way we build, and it's at the heart of what we build. Compliance teams no longer have to choose between speed and trust. We are delivering both!
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Paul King liked thisPaul King liked thisFrom hope to hope. ✨ I started a dream role as Manager of Volunteer Programs with Hope For New York ! Hope For New York is a coalition of hope in NYC, which includes over 80 nonprofits working with the most vulnerable (yet resilient!) communities in our city. It includes St. Paul’s House, where I’ve gotten to serve breakfasts to unhoused neighbors before work, and The Open Door NJNY, Inc., where I taught ESL weekly last year. It includes orgs I’ve been learning about recently, like Safe Families for Children, which creates a village of support around families in crisis so moms and dads can keep custody of their kids. HFNY connects these orgs & so many more with • each other 🤝 • grant funding 💸 • training and resources 🧑🏫 • volunteers (oh, hey😃 that’s my job!) When I see the passion of these orgs’ staff and volunteers, and the difference it makes for every day New Yorkers living on the margins, I really do have hope for New York City. 💙💛
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Paul King liked thisPaul King liked thisWhat looks like a tech problem is often a leadership gap. Those common issues you're seeing, like product delays, buggy releases, fragile infrastructure, low engineering morale, may look like technical problems on the surface. But the real root cause isn't bad code or slow engineers. As often as not, it's the lack of senior strategic leadership guiding the tech function. In other words, the technology itself isn’t broken. What’s missing is someone with the experience and authority to: • Set the right priorities • Align engineering with business goals • Make architectural decisions that scale • Build and lead the team with clarity It reframes the problem away from “we need more devs” to “we need better leadership.” And that’s exactly where the case for a fractional CTO begins. Strategic leadership, right-sized for your growth stage, and ready to step in before the gap becomes a bottleneck. In this blog, Greg Smith breaks down three critical inflection points that call for Fractional CTO services. Read the blog to know when it’s time to make the call >> https://lnkd.in/gS9yiSj5 #FractionalCTO #TechLeadership #StartupGrowth #TechCXO #ProductStrategy3 Clear Signs It’s Time to Bring in a Fractional CTO3 Clear Signs It’s Time to Bring in a Fractional CTO
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Paul King liked thisAI shouldn't be a "bolt-on" afterthought. Most enterprises are rushing to implement AI, only to find themselves stalled by messy data or security risks they didn’t see coming. As our own Kevin Carlson puts it: "Strong AI programs are built on clear strategy, clean data, and security that is designed in from day one—not bolted on at the end." Click here to read and watch the interview: https://lnkd.in/gq-QDyaG #AIStrategy #CyberSecurity #EnterpriseTech #FractionalLeadership #DigitalTransformation #TechCXO #SoftwareOasisHow TechCXO Turns AI, Data, and Security into Practical Enterprise AdvantageHow TechCXO Turns AI, Data, and Security into Practical Enterprise Advantage
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Paul King liked thisIn the latest episode of AIBiz, host Avik Chakraborty sits down with our own executive coach, Kevin Carlson, to discuss the critical inflection point where technical excellence alone is no longer enough. Kevin breaks down the essential leadership, communication, and strategic governance skills you need to gain influence beyond the keyboard. If you want to move from being an indispensable engineer to an influential executive, this episode is your blueprint. 🎧 Listen now: https://lnkd.in/gKtseTHC
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Paul King liked thisThe AI vendor landscape is currently a wild west of pricing experiments. With intense competition, the race for market dominance, and high computing costs, many providers are changing their rates and models—sometimes every few weeks. In a recent interview with CIO Online, our own Kevin Carlson dives into why this 'agile product monetization' is causing major cost uncertainty for CIOs and enterprise customers. Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/d8vEpgAg #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #CIO #EnterpriseIT #DigitalTransformation #SaaS #FinOpsVendor pricing experiments leave CIOs’ AI costs in fluxVendor pricing experiments leave CIOs’ AI costs in flux
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Method and system for simultaneous presentation of multiple windows supported by different graphic user interfaces
Issued US 6,118,428
See patentA method and system are disclosed which may be utilized to generate a simultaneous presentation within a data processing system of video data within multiple windows supported by different graphic user interfaces. Each graphic user interface is coupled to a separate display device driver. Window movements including: creation; deletion; resizing; movement; minimization; maximization; activation; enablement; or an alteration in relative background/foreground order are detected for each graphic…
A method and system are disclosed which may be utilized to generate a simultaneous presentation within a data processing system of video data within multiple windows supported by different graphic user interfaces. Each graphic user interface is coupled to a separate display device driver. Window movements including: creation; deletion; resizing; movement; minimization; maximization; activation; enablement; or an alteration in relative background/foreground order are detected for each graphic user interface and that information and the associated display device driver for each graphic user interface are coupled to a virtual device driver which facilitates interprocess communication between two or more graphic user interfaces, wherein the portion of the video display which is managed by each graphic user interface may be ascertained. Each separate display device driver is then coupled to a single display device, wherein multiple windows supported by different graphic user interfaces may be simultaneously presented.
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The day after Thanksgiving tends to reveal a quiet truth across the tech ecosystem. Leaders return from a short break and immediately confront the same unresolved question that defines operational success or failure in 2025. How do we build systems and teams that can scale without collapsing under complexity? Every founder and every technology leader is wrestling with that one challenge, regardless of industry. It’s no longer about deploying more tools, onboarding more vendors, or adding another automation layer. It’s about creating a governance and execution model that eliminates ambiguity and unlocks predictable delivery. In the last decade, I’ve seen one consistent pattern. Organizations don’t fail because they lack talent. They fail because they lack architectural clarity. They fail because the relationship between vision and implementation is broken. They fail because resilience was assumed, not engineered. What founders want is alignment. What engineering teams want is direction. What the business needs is a framework that ties strategy, infrastructure, and execution into one operating rhythm. When these elements converge, organizations scale cleanly. When they don’t, teams burn out, systems drift, and the business becomes reactive instead of proactive. This is the gap modern tech leadership must close. If you’re building for 2025 and beyond, here are the real questions that determine whether your organization is ready to operate at enterprise velocity: Are your systems architected for resilience or convenience? Do your teams understand the why behind the roadmap, not just the what? Is your documentation actionable, current, and tied to operational outcomes? Are your processes designed to prevent downtime, or to apologize for it? Is your automation reducing cognitive load or introducing hidden overhead? The leaders who answer these questions honestly will outperform their peers. The organizations that ignore them will spend next year paying interest on today’s technical debt. My work as a CTO has consistently shown that when you bring strategic clarity, disciplined design, and execution accountability into one orbit, you don’t just scale. You scale with precision. And that’s exactly what the market expects from top-tier technology leadership right now. If your org is preparing for its next phase of growth and you want to get these fundamentals right, I’m always open to a conversation. Strategic clarity is not optional anymore. It’s the differentiator.
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Geoff T.
There's a great episode of the TV show Deadwood called "A lie agreed upon", the title of which comes from Napoleon, who (in)famously stated "history is a set of lies agreed upon". The episode expands on this theme by exposing the delicate balance of "truth" between the new sheriff in town and the criminal elements who established themselves prior to the his arrival. Anyway, where I'm going with this is we're in one of these politely shared delusions now - the one that begins with "I used AI to help format/spell/correct my writing but otherwise wrote it myself". This, increasingly, is obviously not the case, particularly if you use LinkedIn as a primary source for examples. Look, I work with AI, I create tools with AI, I train AI models, and am involved in some exciting next generation work as well. And perhaps because of this I've become very sensitive to "AI Prose" i.e. the very matter-of-fact, didactic style it presents when creating documents. It is increasingly trivial for me to detect when someone is just posting their latest thought piece based on a prompt. We're way past the days of getting rid of em-dashes. If your prose is littered with terms like "the concrete example" or "it's <x>, but it that does not prove it is <y>", or is otherwise just an almost unnaturally organized structure of paragraphs that recite facts, or a thousand other tells I've picked up over the past year - I'm not reading it. I can't be the only one, right? If I want to know what an LLM "thinks" about something I will just ask it. AI can be a great writing enhancer. Wielded properly, as a research assistant for example, you can do amazing things with it. I use LLMs constantly to create papers. In fact, these days I use it for almost all parts of the process....except writing them. If I want someone to take the time to read and consider what I wrote, I want to provide the courtesy back that I myself took the time to do the same. Otherwise, what am I communicating? That LLMs can pattern match at a level so advanced it appears to be genuine expressions of human thought does not mean they are a substitution for it. LLMs are fantastic (when properly used) at picking out context. Humans are still very much needed for the creative input needed to make sense of it. Otherwise we'd just all be reciting facts (or lies :) ) to each other all day, right? Would love it if, on the occasions I come check out my feed here, I didn't have to wade through a wall of well meaning but (usually) auto-generated thought pieces. They are to social discussions what empty calories are to food. And don't get me started on AI-generated charts and super-dense, shiny info-graphs. Anyway, this is me - I had a thought, thought about how I wanted to communicate it, and wrote this. Call it old school if you like, but join me! It's fun.
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