Business leaders understand business & IT-oriented leaders understand technology, perhaps, this misconception has been misguiding the contemporary world. But this is no longer the case. The lines are now blurred between business & technology, which implies that cannot exist without the other. In the current scenario of the corporate world, technology is the core to the business strategy, as it touches all parts of a business and helps drive reachability and promote differentiation amongst competitors.
A perfect balanced integration of technology in businesses, helps and promotes the brand to reach out to more customers steadily. Irrespective of the size of an organization, technology always has had important effects on business operations. With every passing decade it becomes quite important for every organization to cope up with the customers’ increasing demands. Technology has both tangible and intangible benefits which helps to produce more efficient outcomes. Innovative tech implementations or infrastructure not only boost the efficiency but also affirmatively effects on the relationships in business sphere.
Through a quote—“Our industry does not respect tradition-it only respects innovation,” Satya Nadella, CEO of a tech-giant Microsoft exemplifies, IT or software sector prefer appreciating innovation rather than tradition. This ideology should be accepted by every industry as technology has always proved to be a boon than a bane. Many business leaders are striving to achieve such advanced composition of technology-based businesses to develop more stable business infrastructure.
In this special edition of July, “The 30 Most Influential Business leaders in Tech 2019”, Insights Success appreciate such impeccable leaders and feels pride to feature them in this issue. These leaders have portrayed remarkable leadership in theirs’ respective fields. Filled with overarching enthusiasm towards technology, these leaders paved a way for their organizations en route to success.
Experience polishes one’s natural born skills, and true leaders continuously evolve and improve not only the businesses in which they operate but their own careers as well.
One such leader is Steve Dertien, a Division Vice President for PTC’s office of the CTO.
He is the man behind creating and evangelizing PTC’s technology strategy and advising customers on how to best deploy PTC’s solutions against the backdrop of increasing demand, globalization, IT infrastructure, security, scalability, and performance.
He joined the organization in 2000, and since then has elevated his career from a solution architect to the chief architect in this world-class company with a market cap exceeding $10 billion USD.During the course of his career at PTC, Dertien has led projects around customer implementations, product quality, competitive analysis, and research and development.
Witnessing Steve’s success in each area, a brilliant mind, and a commitment to excellence, PTC’s CEO Jim Heppelmann promoted Dertien to lead the Office of the CTO in 2018.Technology with Value; Research with PromisePTC’s product portfolio consists of its market leading CAD and PLM solutions and newer high-growth offerings in IoT and Augmented Reality (AR).
The company counts over 35,000 customers using its solutions.
