Is CPTO role killing the innovation in Indian companies . Mostly what I have seen is that CPTO is from a tech background and their decisions are mostly biased towards tech and it ends up spoiling customer experience. For eg - Look at companies like Flipkart and Myntra , falling behind Amazon and other competitors by a large extent now in customer experience.
Some of the good PMs that I know have even started rejecting the roles based on whether department is headed by a CPTO.
Isn't is better to have CPO and CTO as two separate roles to maintain balance at all levels.
Thoughts ?
Agreed. CTPOs are usually either tech inclined or product inclined. One org will suffer in any case.
Lately I am observing trend that product roles are going down, not many company believe in hiring product roles. At least small/mid startup wants CTPO roles and they want someone to play dual roles, primarily tech led products roles. Pur...
So is product management really not a requirement alone as a role and people from different teams can take those responsibilities , although it happened but still you require someone as a 50% generalist and 50 specialist depending on the...
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Anyone here or has worked in CleverTap . Know if few people who gave me bad reviews, like the full product team with CPO left in one year during pandemic and lot of senior engineering folks left as well.
Recently saw the CEO left too . ...
