The Fractional Innovator - Fractional C-Suite Retreat - Episode # 004

With over 8 years of experience with high-technology and business, today’s guest has worked with some of the largest media technology companies in Europe and the U.S. Mo Hossain is now the Fractional CTO at Data Up. Mo joins host Joseph Frost, to discuss ways that those in the C-suite can be more innovative, such as having companies hire multiple fractional professionals to get more advice on their company.

 

 

Takeaways 

• The biggest thing that most C-suites are missing out on right now is that they don’t have enough knowledge in the different areas of their business. 
• Technology is improving and changing so dramatically that it’s extremely important to stay up to date on it so you can help all your customers better. 
• It’s a good idea for businesses to have a few different fractional professionals come in and evaluate how they are doing things, that way you get a variety of input and advice.
• Hiring a full time CTO would cost a lot of money, whereas hiring a fractional person to do that would be cheaper and they get projects and plans done faster.
• User experience improvements is something that a CTO could get involved in and find the best way to handle it. 
• Because of the changes in social media and it becoming more and more prominent, fractional professionals are having to learn these skills to better help others understand it.
• You need to take notice of where the trends are in your industry and adapt to them, otherwise you will be behind. 

 

 

Quote of the Show:

 

5:31 “A lot of times the way a business has taken the approach of having advisors. I think that's another great way of handling this. Like, okay, these are my board of advisors, whether it's another, you know, maybe technical person or some experience with that kind of say, okay, well that thing, you know, maybe it could come up, we could do something in a little different way because I'm not going to say that I'm always right.

I'm not, I think that's okay. It's because we don't have, we don't always know everything that we need to know potentially in the moment that we need it. Right. So having another expertise, another person coming in from a different angle, I think is always really interesting.”

Links

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hossainmo/
• Website: https://dataup.tech

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