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Disruptive Technologies - Friend or Foe of the CTO ? - Part 3    GAUGING THE POTENTIAL OF DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES While the CTO comes across a wide range of disruptive Technologies, he needs gauge their potential for disruption He brings a few of them into his fold for business attention in the short and medium term. He places the other Technologies on his radar and monitors how they evolve in the long-term. Readers who are familiar with Gartner hype cycle [ https://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/top-trends-in-the-gartner-hype-cycle-for-emerging-technologies-2017/ ] will appreciate the importance of insights into these trends. The CTO’s job is lot more complex than monitoring the hype cycles – he needs to track the development at multiple levels - the sub-system, system and super system. In the case of the CTO of an Automotive OEM, gauging the potential of disruptors in the electric vehicles (EV) space, he has to gauge the potential of new technologies such as (