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Institute of Advanced Technological and Commercial Studies

TP64 · Level 7

Chief Technology Officer

Target occupation: chief technology officer, CTO.

Target occupation
chief technology officer, CTO
Level
7 — Expert and executive
Duration
9 months
Taught hours
700 h
Credits
70

Framework

Competency blocks

Each block is assessed separately and stays acquired. That is what lets you resume an interrupted path without starting over.

  1. Technical strategy and roadmap

    190 hours

    Vision, structuring choices, debt, platform, build-versus-buy

  2. Organisation and talent

    180 hours

    Team structure, hiring, retention, engineering culture

  3. Budget, suppliers and risk

    180 hours

    Technical budget, contracts, dependency, security, continuity

  4. Alignment with product and leadership

    100 hours

    Translating strategy into technology, roadmap, executive committee, board

  5. Executive conduct

    50 hours

    Committing to a multi-year technical path, owning a failure

Questions

How is this title awarded?

Through a workplace simulation before a panel of practitioners, together with a professional portfolio recording what you actually produced. An occupation is proven by practising it, not on paper.

What employment rate do you publish?

None, and that is deliberate: no cohort has yet completed this title. The six-month employment rate is this family's own indicator, and we will publish it once a cohort has produced one — not before. An invented figure here would be the first thing an employer checks.

Chief Technology Officer — IHETC