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Nurturing Complexity
As Senior Advisor to the CEO, Dave focuses on key projects important to PMI’s mission and community. Prior to that, as Chief Strategy & Growth Officer for PMI, Dave collaboratively defined and drove the execution of the Institute's strategy to create exponential growth in relevance and impact. Working globally, across the organization to define, test, and deliver "new products that matter," which will deliver dramatic increases in value to our customers.
Here's a mind boggling job: How do you come up with a vision for the future use of technology at a company like Amazon? A company whose very face is displayed to us on our computers and gives us incredibly fast, one-click access to more items than we could ever imagine needing?
Managing the complexity involved with the globally distributed systems that already exist at Amazon is a daunting task. In fact, many CTOs find it difficult to look very far beyond today when dealing with such issues. Werner Vogels, Chief Technology Officer at Amazon.com, doesn't have that luxury. With Amazon targeting a broad range of markets where competition is fierce, Werner must constantly find ways to not only streamline operations, but map out a course that defines the leading edge in distributed systems development on the web.
Managing the complexity involved with the globally distributed systems that already exist at Amazon is a daunting task. In fact, many CTOs find it difficult to look very far beyond today when dealing with such issues. Werner Vogels, Chief Technology Officer at Amazon.com, doesn't have that luxury. With Amazon targeting a broad range of markets where competition is fierce, Werner must constantly find ways to not only streamline operations, but map out a course that defines the leading edge in distributed systems development on the web.
At seminars, in his weblog and in other venues, he has talked about "incorporating technologies based on chaos, biology and evolution principles into software to be able to guarantee robust operation at galactic scale...creating services that are able to self-organize and self-regenerate, and achieve service stability in a world that is continuously in flux." In this interview, we've tried to capture how he views his job, his approach to it and his advice to you.
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