Some of Hawke Robinson's Key CITO Methodologies

Some of Hawke Robinson's Key CITO Methodologies

I have been involved working with technology since 1979 (over 45 years!), and over time refined the methodologies that help enhance the benefits of technologies to maximize the benefits to business, and help improve the overall human condition.

I have acquired, developed, and refined a number of very important key philosophies and methodologies with respect to optimizing the use of technologies to maximize an organizations competitive strategy. Some of these can be challenging for people to "grok", but they are critically important for  success. As Chief Information and Technology Officer (CITO for a number of companies over the decades), I have been working with technology since 1979 (more than 45 years!), and overtime found that this set of methodologies are highly effective for enhancing the benefits realized from the use (and/or development) of technologies to achieve maximal business benefit. A few of these key approaches include:

  • Why a CIO or CTO (or CITO) should not just be a glorified engineer
  • 80/20 or 90/10 off-the-self / custom development
  • Dogfooding
  • Using Self-Hosted / Open Source Software (SH/OSS) options rather than adopting software as a service (SaaS)
  • Giving back to the technical communities we benefit from
  • Trust, Transparency, Integrity, and Respecting Privacy & Security
  • DIKW (Discovery, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom)
  • APIE (DR) Project Management Scoping
  • Agile iterative project management & development
  • Brook's Law on workforce allocation and project management
  • Small Teams Group Dynamics
  • Ability Model
  • 90th Percentile staffing standard

See the links to the more in depth articles and papers I've written over the years related to each each of these concept.

  • https://www2.techtalkhawke.com/news/why-a-cto-should-_not_-be-a-glorified-coder-engineer
  • https://www2.techtalkhawke.com/news/80-of-projects-and-companies-dont-need-100-custom-coding
  • https://www.hawkerobinson.com/news/hawkes-robinson-projects-model-project-management-scoping-resources-time-brooks-law-tuckmans-theories-and-more-combined