Sriram Narayan

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Indy Consultant. Impact Intelligence: Get more out of your discretionary spend www.impactintel.net Improve Product/Engg./Digital organisations and operating models: www.agileorgdesign.com

Run costs mount as more functionality is added, putting pressure on tech spend which won't be allowed to grow without evidence of business impact. Yet, the same lack of evidence gives rise to new ideas (try something else, spray and pray) causing more functionality to be delivered, now supercharged with AI-assisted engineering.

Review: A Manifesto for CTOs With Spine and Soul
By Emilia Sherifova
Sriram Narayan’s “The Reformist CTO’s Guide to Impact Intelligence” reads like a long-overdue intervention in the theater of tech-enabled business transformation; it is equal parts operating manual, cultural critique, and subversive scripture for technology leaders stuck inside the output-obsessed hamster wheel of the enterprise. What Sriram gets absolutely right is the central hypocrisy plaguing the productivity discourse in tech: the insistent demand to “measure developer productivity” as if engineering output were conveyor-belt widgets or feet of drywall installed. Anyone who’s actually built software or led those who do knows this is a false god. Sriram reorients the compass toward impact over throughput, and in doing so, grants beleaguered CTOs a vocabulary (and a moral imperative) to fight back. The article

Cover page of the COO magazine, Q2-2025 edition. It says, "Re-imagining the first line of defence: From Chief Control Officer to Head of Business Risk"

Table showing number of bankruptcies per million registered businesses.