Your tech team costs a fortune.
Can you tell what you’re getting for it?
Most CEOs of growing businesses know their tech team is busy but can’t tell if it’s effective. We embed alongside you and your technology leader to turn that around. Same people. Same budget. Different results.
You can see something isn’t right. You just can’t tell what it is.
Your technology team is always busy. Always in meetings. Always shipping something. But projects still run late, priorities keep shifting, and you can’t get a straight answer about what’s actually happening.
You’re not sure if it’s a people problem, a process problem, or a leadership problem. So you either wait too long or make a change too early. Both cost you.
The real issue? Most technology functions don’t have an operating rhythm.They have a CTO who is technically strong but operating as an order taker, not a strategic leader. And nobody has ever shown them what the difference looks like in practice.
We don’t replace your people. We make them perform.
Techshin Partners embeds alongside you and your technology leader for six months. We install an operating rhythm, develop your CTO’s leadership capability, and get the whole function running at a level you haven’t seen before.
Diagnose the real problem
Not a survey. Not a maturity assessment. A proper diagnostic across your technology function’s people, process, product, and commercial performance. You’ll see the gaps your CTO can’t.
Install the operating rhythm
The invisible infrastructure of how your technology function runs week to week. Decision making sessions, team alignment, leadership coaching in context. By month six, it runs on its own.
Develop the leader
Your CTO either steps up and becomes the leader your business stage needs, or you get a clear, evidence based picture that a change is required. Either way, you finish knowing exactly where you stand.
What CEOs see when the methodology is applied
Performance improvement
Measured against benchmarks set at the start. Actual output, delivery cadence, and team capability you can see in the numbers.
New hires required
Built with the team you already have. Most CEOs are surprised how much untapped potential sits in their existing people.
To complete clarity
A defined timeframe with clear milestones. Not an open ended engagement. You’ll know if it’s working well before the halfway point.
Four steps. No surprises.
Assess
A working conversation, not a sales pitch. We listen, ask the right questions, and show you something you couldn’t see about your technology function. If there’s a fit, we go deeper. If not, you walk away with clarity.
Diagnose
The 22 Point Technology Function Diagnostic. A structured evaluation across people, process, product, and profit. You get a clear picture of where the function is strong, where it’s falling short, and why.
Transform
Embedded leadership alongside your CEO and CTO. We install the operating rhythm, develop leadership capability, and get the function performing. Same people. Same budget. Different results.
Ascend
Monthly partnership for CEOs who want continued access. Strategic advisory, leadership development check ins, and the confidence that comes from having someone in your corner who has done this before.
“TJ embeds himself as a member of the senior team and works with all stakeholders to develop a high performing CTO and high performing development team. He institutes workflows and behaviours within the development team and between their stakeholders based on well defined principles.”CTO, Technology Company
Timothy J. Hitchens
Leadership Partner
Not a consultant. Not a coach. A leadership partner.
TJ has held six CTO appointments across seven countries. He spent nearly seven years at Amazon across Asia Pacific. He’s an AICD member and board director. Over 40 years in technology.
He created the Become CTO methodology through 15 years of research across 80+ technology organisations. He founded Techshin Partners to apply that methodology commercially, working with CEOs to get technology functions performing.
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