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Product Strategy & Portfolio Performance

CEOs owe it to company to be technically savvy

This FierceCEO piece addresses how technically informed a CEO should be in a technology-dependent business. The product-business question is how executives…

Doug Ringer ·

Doug Ringer

This published work explores a practical product-business question through the lens of Product Strategy & Portfolio Performance.

This FierceCEO piece addresses how technically informed a CEO should be in a technology-dependent business. The product-business question is how executives learn enough to govern technical risk and strategic consequences without displacing the experts responsible for detailed technical decisions.

Original publication: FierceCEO

Why it still matters

The underlying leadership question remains relevant: connect customer and market evidence, clear decision rights, and disciplined execution to the business outcome.

Publication context

Originally published by FierceCEO. The date associated with the source record is January 16, 2018.

Publication context

Product Strategy & Portfolio Performance

Doug Ringer

Product management is a business role.

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