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Matthias Patzak

Author: Matthias Patzak

Matthias Patzak is a Principal Advisor at Amazon Web Services. He previously served as Vice President IT at AutoScout24 and Chief Digital Officer at Home Shopping Europe. In both companies, he introduced lean-agile operational models at scale and led successful cloud transformations that resulted in shorter delivery times and increased business value.

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How to Set Up an Effective Ecommerce Tech Organization

This is an excerpt from The CTO Guide to Ecommerce Architectures: People, Process, and Technology (2021) by Matthias Patzak and Paul Vassu. Without the right organization, every ecommerce architecture described will fail to achieve its objectives. As a CTO, you have to build a working system out of culture, people, process, and technologies that delivers […]

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The CTO Guide to Ecommerce Architectures

Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) most frequently mention these core capabilities of their ecommerce architectures: The ability to innovate at the digital and physical front ends that support sales channels. The effort required to integrate the increasing number of other IT systems. Those who talk more about innovation are usually builders. Revenue, metrics, and innovation are […]