Expert Fractional CIO Services to Fuel Your Business Growth

In today’s fast-paced business environment, having the right technology strategy is essential for success. Our variety of fractional CIO services provide you with expert, high-level IT leadership tailored to your business needs—without the commitment of a full-time executive.

How will a CIO Support your Business Objectives?

  • Understand

    The organization's basic needs and aspirational desires

  • Maintain

    The organization's desired state by continuously iterating: assess, align, remediate, and operate

  • Lead

    Influence, communicate to, collaborate with, and provide executive presence to stakeholders

  • Develop

    A recommended level of technology spend

Services

  • Create an IT strategy aligned with business goals. This includes identifying technology trends, assessing current infrastructure, and recommending initiatives to optimize business operations and growth.

  • Develop a technology roadmap, outlining key milestones and timelines for future IT initiatives. This helps ensure that the technology investments support long-term business objectives and deliver value.

  • Creation and managment of an IT budget, ensuring that expenditures align with company priorities. They assess ROI for technology investments and control costs effectively.

  • Drive digital transformation initiatives, adopting new technologies and processes that streamline operations, enhance customer experience, and promote innovation across the company.

  • Lead and mentor internal IT teams or outsourced resources, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment. This also includes ensuring that the team has the right skills and professional development opportunities.

  • Ensure there are robust business continuity and disaster recovery plans in place, including data backups and failover systems, to ensure minimal downtime in the event of a disruption.

  • Serve as the key point of communication between IT and other departments, ensuring that the technology strategy is understood and supported. This involves presenting technical concepts in business-friendly language to non-technical stakeholders.

  • Develops strategies for cloud adoption, management, and cost optimization. They guide the company through selecting and implementing cloud services (public, private, or hybrid) to improve scalability and flexibility.

The Right Person for the Right Amount of Time

  • Virtual CIO

    1 - 4 Hours Per Week

    Highly fractional, advisory leadership (10% or less)

  • Fractional CIO

    1 - 4 Days Per Week

    Part-time leadeship responsibility (20-80%) where full time dedication is not needed or affordable.

  • Interim CIO

    5 Days Per Week

    Temporary Full-time leadership responsibiliities during an unplanned vacancy.

What is a Fractional CIO?

  • A fractional chief information officer differs from a traditional chief information officer in that they serve as a working member of a company's executive management team as a contractor and may or may not serve on the company's board of directors.

    Wikipedia