{"id":165,"date":"2022-07-26T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/th1nk.co.za\/?p=165"},"modified":"2024-02-04T15:02:13","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T13:02:13","slug":"steve-whitford-founder-of-th1nk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/th1nk.co.za\/online\/steve-whitford-founder-of-th1nk\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Whitford, Founder of Th1nk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more on Steve Whitford, Founder of Th1nk<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/th1nk.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Steve-Whitford-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-167\" style=\"width:481px;height:721px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/th1nk.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Steve-Whitford-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/th1nk.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Steve-Whitford-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/th1nk.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Steve-Whitford-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/th1nk.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Steve-Whitford-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/th1nk.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Steve-Whitford-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/th1nk.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Steve-Whitford-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Steve Whitford<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Email: steve@th1nk.co.za<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LinkedIn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/stephenwhitford\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">profile<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Consultant to C Suites on digital strategy and execution.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Product lead on building large digital ecosystems.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lead design, product, and development teams on large scale projects.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Strategic Innovator.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Omnichannel expert across Web, App, WhatsApp and USSD.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Digital pioneer of several start-ups including e-Sports, gamification, mobile gaming.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With a strong product skillset, I\u2019ve always worked with platforms. From designing the structure of Content Management Systems and interactive portals in the early days of the Internet, through to designing large scale loyalty and self service front ends today that plug into platforms like Salesforce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ve also had to lead teams in complex environments, including directly managing a team, running internal and external development teams and managing stakeholder engagements with multiple decision makers across large projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From a leadership perspective, I\u2019ve helped to create shared consciousness within departments and organizations around their goals and have created team frameworks to drive decision making as deep into the organization as possible to create the momentum needed to achieve those goals. I\u2019m a leader who understands my skillset, work gearing and how to add value to those I work with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For more on Steve Whitford, Founder of Th1nk Email: steve@th1nk.co.za LinkedIn profile With a strong product skillset, I\u2019ve always worked with platforms. From designing the structure of Content Management Systems and interactive portals in the early days of the Internet, through to designing large scale loyalty and self service front ends today that plug into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5,20],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital","category-product","category-th1nk","tag-steve-whitford"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/th1nk.co.za\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/th1nk.co.za\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/th1nk.co.za\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/th1nk.co.za\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/th1nk.co.za\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/th1nk.co.za\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228,"href":"https:\/\/th1nk.co.za\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/th1nk.co.za\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/th1nk.co.za\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/th1nk.co.za\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/th1nk.co.za\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}