Virtual CIO/CTO/CISO Services

Whether your company is a tenured member of your field or an emerging player, it can benefit from the insights our small team of veteran IT executives can provide. Our typical engagement for these services is an annual contract to advise the senior leadership of a 50-2500 seat company on technical solutions available to address specific business goals, to review existing or ongoing IT initiatives, to mentor internal IT managers, and to provide critical risk assessments of infrastructure, cybersecurity posture, and budgeting.

The senior technology officer role has evolved greatly since the DotCom Era to become much more of a businessperson and less of a purely technical executive because companies realize that IT exists purely to resolve business problems and equip employees with better tools with which to meet corporate goals.

The siloed, "ivory towers" of yesterday's corporate IT have become consigned to live on only through Internet lore in favor of a much more business-driven internal service provider that often relies on 3rd party relationships for staffing, managed services, application development and cloud computing. To successfully compete in the marketplace, companies must understand how Technology's continuing evolution can be brought to bear on their goals. We can help you integrate this into your operations.

Many smaller or less tenured companies, especially those outside the tech sector, are challenged with realizing the value IT provides to the other business units and quantifying that value proposition in terms that support continuous or expanded investment. Several clients of this practice have competed in their marketplaces without ever having chartered a C-level technology office because they could not justify the overhead. We help them visualize the overall value to the enterprise of having technology represented at the senior management level, then we can provide this expertise on an on-going basis, or temporarily while helping stand up the internal senior technology officer.

For companies that have C-level technology representation, our virtual executive services extend the value proposition by advising the CIO on matters of budgeting, compliance, cybersecurity, market trends, project management, and staffing.