Talk:Chief technology officer/Archives/2011

Chief Technology Officer
Some bot keeps changing CTO to Chief Technical Officer. This is wrong. It almost always stands for Chief Technology Officer. This article should be corrected appropriate and the bot should stop these corrections, as they clutter articles and obviously, in many cases, are completely incorrect. For example, when one writes: "John Smith is CTO of BigCo", and the bot corrects to "John Smith is Chief Technical Officer of BigCo", this is actually incorrect, as John Smith's title is Chief Technology Officer.

This needs fixing. In particular, whatever bot is doing the "corrections" needs to stop vandalising Wikipedia pages.


 * Note - I don't know how to apply this fix but it does need doing. JonathanMayUK (talk) 22:02, 5 May 2010 (UTC)


 * I agree. I've applied for an uncontroversial move. It has to be done by an admin because Chief technology officer already exists as a redirect page.    talk 19:18, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

"Business-focused oversight of R&D"
Business-focused oversight of R&D (ensuring the R&D costs are controlled and effective) is only one side of the coin. The R&D advocate role is just as important - an understanding of the impact that poorly-designed business processes could have on innovation and creativity is needed.

Is it focussed or focused?
Is it focussed or focused?

Capitolization / article rename
Since this article is about the title, I believe caps are appropriate, as in Major General and the like. Stan 12:50, 6 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Well, the article really belongs under chief technology officer (485,000 Google hits) as opposed to chief technical officer(110,000 Google hits). This term should be lowercased when used to describe the occupation, only uppercased when describing a specific person/position ("Chief Technology Officer of IBM"). -- Netoholic 18:47, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * yes the title should definitely be "Chief Technology Officer" Anlace 16:49, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
 * agreed -SM 16:00, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
 * done -Hristodulo 15 December 2008 1725 CET
 * Oops! Appreciate the initiative, but the cut-and-paste way you accomplished this wiped out the history (actually, it's still on the other page). I can't untangle this right now, please read wp:move, or ask for help on your talk page with the    template. Cheers, -SM 19:56, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the mess, I do not (of course) have administrator rights to delete any page, but I will follow your guideline ASAP. Thanks! -Hristodulo 15 December 2008 2222 CET —Preceding undated comment was added at 21:22, 15 December 2008 (UTC).
 * OK, you're off the hook. =) I've undone your page swap, and recovered Seth Nimbosa's edit, so we are more or less status quo ante.  Swapping pages is, as you can see from wp:move, a bit more involved, which is why probably no one's gotten around to doing it yet.  If you'd like to take charge of this, I'd again encourage you to use the    template, and line up some help.  Particularly, there should be a way to autobotically change all the links from other pages so that they read Chief technology officer directly.  Or, one of us will get to the swap when we get time. In any case, thanks for your help, no harm done. -SM 14:44, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Move?

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: pages swapped - there's some history on the original Chief technology officer.  Ron h jones (Talk) 00:09, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

Chief technical officer → —
 * Chief technology officer is a far more common usage for this position. Consensus has been more or less established (and never contested) for this move on the talk page.  The move has apparently been attempted in the past, but a rogue bot seems to have reverted it.  The target article is already a redirect to this page, so correctly moving the page is not possible without admin intervention.    talk 19:15, 28 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Support. I've heard of many a chief technology officer, and nary a chief technical officer. -- Pnm (talk) 08:08, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Chief Security Officer or Chief Science Officer?
In contrasting the CTO with the CSO, it sounds like the article is talking about a Chief Science Officer, yet it says "Chief Security Officer". IHTFP (talk) 02:54, 29 August 2010 (UTC)