Leadership
CEO Guide to Innovation
What is Innovation?
Growth Blog
Insights on Scalability & Technology
Scalability and technology consulting advice for SaaS and technology companies — from the AKF Partners team.
Leadership
Showing 12 of 87 articles — Clear filter
Organization
CEO Guide to Managing a CTO
This post is intended for CEOs, COOs, Presidents or CPTOs (Chief Product and Technology Officers) of companies that build software products for revenue and who…
Organization
CEO Guide to Hiring an Interim CTO
What is an Interim CTO?
Organization
The Danger Zone with Large Groups
How many people does it take to make a decision at your company? How many people does it take to launch a new feature for your product? To modernize and/or…
Leadership
Leadership Anti-Patterns
The world of software development is all abuzz with the notion of patterns and anti-patterns. Patterns are something we endeavor to follow and propagate as a…
Leadership
Leadership Principles for Engineering and Product Leaders - Part 3
This is the final post in a three-part series presenting leadership principles for product and tech executives. This week’s entry covers principles of team…
Leadership
Leadership Principles for Engineering and Product Leaders - Part 2
Photo by Jehyun Sung on Unsplash
Leadership
Leadership Principles for Engineering and Product Leaders
Photo by Jehyun Sung on Unsplash
Architecture
Interim CTO case study: Moving to a Cloud First Strategy at Speed
AKF recently engaged with a large, very successful on-premises solution space to help define and accelerate their public cloud product offering and move to an…
Organization
When to hire an interim or fractional CTO
There comes a time when most CEOs consider hiring an interim CTO. There are four main cirumstances when this occurs. And in each situation, a different CTO…
Leadership
CEO Guide: How to hire a great CTO
Welcome to our series of CEO Guides. These articles provide a short guide on key technology topics, reflecting the common questions we are asked by CEOs as…
Organization
CTO Hiring Checklist
Whether you are considering a fractional CTO, an interim CTO, a full time CTO, or you just want to “coach up” your current CTO this list is a good place to…