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# Hidden efficiency - How to enable your non-engineers as a CTO


- **Date:** Thursday, Jul 10, 2025
- **Time:** 10:10–10:40 (30 min)
- **Room:** Stage 1
- **Event:** World Congress 2025
- **Tags:** career growth, culture, leadership, team building

## Recording

[Watch recording](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1412-hidden-efficiency-how-to-enable-your-non-engineers-as-a-cto)

## Description

The presentation “Hidden Efficiency - How to Enable Your Non-Engineers as a CTO” highlights strategies to improve organizational efficiency by empowering non-engineering teams through automation and no-code/low-code tools. It emphasizes key performance indicators like revenue per employee and benchmarks for operational efficiency. The content advocates for leveraging internal apps and automation to enhance productivity across all roles, not just engineering. It stresses the importance of fostering a company-wide automation mindset, led by business automation managers and supported by CTO sponsorship. The presentation underscores cross-functional collaboration, investing in user-friendly tools, and encouraging continuous learning. Through these strategies, the goal is to unlock scalability and efficiency by enabling every employee to contribute meaningfully to operational success.

## Speaker

### [Andi Stryz](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@andi-stryz)

Andreas "Andi" Stryz, CTO & Co-Founder at FINN


## Related talks at this congress

- [Transforming Developer Experience: Lessons from Building a Platform Team](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/648-transforming) — Tobias Mende
- [Code meets Culture: Engineering the Future of Hiring](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/806-code-meets-culture) — Sophie Okonkwo
- [Signs of an Engineering Culture](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/544-signs-of-an) — Lubo Drobny
- [Overcoming bottlenecks of Platform Teams](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/532-overcoming) — Candost Dagdeviren