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Avoid technical jargon that business stakeholders won't understand

  • Terms like "API latency" or "asynchronous processing" might be everyday language for you
  • But sounds like a foreign language to executives

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A Chief Technology Strategist helping companies to grow from caterpillar companies with transformation ideas to accelerate metamorphosis into smooth, airy and volatile butterfly organizations.

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