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CIO to Go

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Written by Jim Love
Thursday, 27 May 2010 14:38

CIO TO GoA great CIO can make a real difference in your business.  Keeping up with technology has never been more difficult that it is today.  Not only is technology emerging faster than ever before - but the adoption rate has accelerated as well. Competitive pressures make it necessary to match -- and sometimes beat the competition in the selection and adoptions of new technologies.

That's not easy.  It takes dedication.  It takes a special kind of leadership.  It takes focus on the strategic use of technology.  It takes the experience to handle and manage the adoption of technology, people and processes.

But who has the time? Our customers are up to their ears managing their businesses.

Large companies hire someone who exclusively manages the strategic use of technology -- the CIO (Chief Information Officer) or in some companies, the CTO (Chief Technology Officer).

A New Direction

Many of our clients are taking a different direction - we call it CIO to Go.

They are hiring us to manage the strategic use of technology for them.  We help them with a Technology Strategy, Selection and Implementation of new technology and overall management of their portfolio of projects and IT processes.  We watch the issues and trends and we help our companies sort it out.  We treat technology as both a cost and an opportunity.

The foundation technologies are a cost.  You need to manage those carefully.  We outsource, we partner, we work the efficiencies using ITIL and LEAN - we recover troubled systems and get you operating reliably.

The emerging technologies are an opportunity.   We watch for the right opportunities for you, we sift through all of what is out there - and we bring you the things that can most leverage your business.  We can do this from our vantage point where we watch multiple technologies.

A Team Approach

We can pack a lot of skills into one package.  How?  We use our team.  We have people with deep experience in a number of areas.  Our CIO to go can tap into all of those resources for their skills and vision.

You benefit by having a CIO/CTO resource that is knowledgeable, top of their field and with the experience of running large shops.  You get as much as you need, when you need it.  A modest cost -- a fabulous benefit.


CIO to go.  Why didn't some think of this before?

 

 

 

Last Updated ( Thursday, 27 May 2010 16:04 )

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