Chief Technology Officer Programme

Your learning journey

The core modules provide a broad foundation in the key parameters of technology leadership, from strategic planning to influencing company culture. You will develop essential technical and interpersonal skills to foster high-performance teams, delve into disruptive technologies and learn how to make data-driven decisions.

Strategy

• A vision of change, shaping technology strategy and corporate versus business strategy
• Strategic risk, innovation typology, process and outcome metrics
• Technology strategy portfolio and measuring portfolio success
• The decision process for managing and driving the portfolio

Culture and leadership

• The power of culture and its complexity and limitations
• The basis and power of leadership, the motivation to lead and the drawbacks
• Empowered innovation leadership, fair process and its challenges

Processes and execution

• Moving from strategic concepts to concrete operational measures
• Process types, their strengths and limitations: agile, waterfall, experimentation and experimental ventures
• Managing the differences, classical organisational structures and the power and challenge of complexity
• The birth and management of innovation and decentralised and hierarchical structures
• The locus of innovation, application of success measures and how organisations learn

Global organisation and partners

• The architecture and management of distributed innovation
• Catalysing a cutting-edge ecosystem strategy
• Inter-firm collaboration, partner contracting and contract design
• Traditional and cloud-based IT infrastructure, global innovation and marketing

Externalities and technology policy

• The impact of technology on society and developing a plan and vision for the future
• Problem definition and its effect on solutions
• Policy emergence and evolution
• Competition and antitrust policy, ESG governance and regulatory impact.

Download the programme brochure for more information on the modules and faculty.

Core curriculum – Kick-start your programme journey with 26 weeks of in-depth core sessions on strategy, culture and leadership and policy, process and execution.

High touch – Live online and face-to-face sessions, online webinars, project coaching and leading industry guest speakers.

World-renowned faculty – Learn from thought leaders and cutting-edge researchers. Learn from high-achieving peers from around the globe and build your network.

Choice of electives – Select two topical electives to gain a relevant skillset specific to your career goals.

Success coach – You will be assigned a success coach, who will help craft your learning journey through regular check-in sessions.

Practitioner insights – Glean insights from global industry experts with guest lectures throughout the programme.

Networking event – Interact with faculty, peers and global industry leaders during a two and a half-day in-person networking event.

Action plan – Apply programme concepts to prepare an action plan that addresses a real-world technology issue in your organisation.

Alumni benefits – Earn select Cambridge Judge Business School alumni benefits upon completion of the programme.

Upon successful completion of the programme, participants will be awarded a digital Certificate of Completion by CJBS Executive Education.