Mastering Technology - Fractional C-Suite Retreat - Episode # 006

Bentley Davis, Fractional CTO, comes from a technology background and is an expert at building mobile and web applications. After spending 20 years in the hospitality industry, he decided that he wanted to own his company and left the industry. He worked for a few different start ups and learned so many valuable lessons and skills along the way. Bentley joins host Joseph Frost to discuss new innovations for c-suite executives and how technology can be extremely beneficial for them.

 

 

Takeaways: 

• One of the biggest opportunities for c-suite executives now is to enable their team with the most up to date technology. 
• When it comes to technology, on Twitter the No Code community is actually pretty helpful and always provides ideas for medium and small sized businesses.
• There are plenty of tools that fractional professionals can use to properly utilize technology without having to hire a developer.
• Hiring a fractional professional can provide fresh insight to your company because they work with so many different companies they see what works and what doesn’t.
• It’s important for new companies to find their product market fit and to know their customer base. You want to have your market research done before hiring a fractional c-suite executive.
• Go with the technology that works the best for what the company is trying to do. They might be comfortable with it right away but you should let them know if something works better.
• You should work with people that fit in with your values of a company. Working with someone whose only motivation is profit isn’t going to end well.

 

 

Quote of the Show:

 

7:45 “Sometimes it helps to have someone who doesn't work for that agency or that group, to kind of look at it from a slightly different angle… I might not necessarily know more than them, but I have a different level of experience. And also if someone's been working in a single company for several years, they don't have the opportunity you and I have, we're working with several companies that we can bring the best of the best of the solutions and technologies in.”

Links:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/bntlyd
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bntlyd/
• Website: https://bentleydavis.com

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