One of my favorite parts of my job is to act as an outsourced CTO for companies. In some cases it is more of acting as lateral support for incumbent CIO/CSO types, which actually works out really well in a number of cases. In those cases I really more help to define the technical guidance for organizations. In some cases the organization is too small for a C-level and it’s more of acting as a Director of IT, in others it’s simply as a supplement to another C-level for dispute resolution. And like many CTOs I once focused on computers, servers and backbones. But how quickly technology can redefine an…