Challenges
The CIO job is very challenging, in a business environment with increasing:
Expectations towards IT
- Higher speed
- Lower cost
- Measurable business value
- Better user experience
- Always on
- Always secure: resilient to ever increasing cyber security threats
- Increasing compliance requirements
Complexity
- How to leverage the latest technologies e.g. AI, go beyond the hype and deliver real added value?
- How to stay up to date with the latest technologies and find all IT skills required to manage the increasing complexity?
- How to modernize your application landscape, with legacy slowing you down and M&A increasing IT complexity?
Unpredictability
- Increasing speed of technological evolution
- Increasingly dynamic and unpredictable business environment and geopolitical context
Approach
We make an experienced CIO-COO (see this link) available “as a service”, for:
- CIO’s or senior IT executives, providing flexible support tailored to their individual needs
- CEO’s, as interim CIO or in a temporary digital transformation leadership role
This is our approach:
Kick-off meeting
- We start with a kick-off meeting in which we:
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- Clarify the main challenges and objectives
- Check available documentation
- Plan the introduction and support activities
- Plan communication
Introduction
- Introduction activities include:
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- Reviewing existing documentation
- A company/shop floor visit
- Meetings with key stakeholders
Support activities
- Support activies are well prepared, leveraging our proven methodologies, templates & tools
Regular reviews/sounding board
- We plan regular review meetings/calls (typically monthly) to:
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- Report on the status of support activities
- Review the support planning
- Give you the opportunity to discuss various topics in an informal way with an experienced CIO/COO, acting as “sounding board”
Deliverables
You can select from a wide range of support services:
Digital strategy/transformation
- We can support you in translating your business strategy/objectives into a concrete IT strategy and digital transformation roadmap: see this link
Sounding board
- We can give you the opportunity to:
- Discuss challenges, opportunities, ideas in an informal way with an experienced CIO/COO, acting as “sounding board”
- Get neutral advice
Data & AI
- We can support you in:
- Benchmarking your Data & AI capabilities against best practices, using our proven tools & checklists
- Defining and delivering a concrete Data & AI strategy and roadmap
IT budgeting & cost optimization
- We can support you in IT budgeting, initiative prioritization and cost-benefit analysis.
- We can also help you optimize IT cost via:
- IT infrastructure & application landscape rationalization
- IT vendor management
- IT organization & governance optimization
Preparation of mgt/board meetings
- We can support you in defending IT investments and preparing effective and efficient executive management/board meetings, leveraging our experience and our proven templates
IT Organization & governance
- We can support you in:
- Benchmarking your IT organization & governance capabilities against best practices, using our proven tools & checklists
- Organizational design
- Change management
- Pragmatic application of ITIL, Agile and Composability concepts
IT vendor mgt
M&A
- We have extensive experience in the IT aspects of M&A activities and can support you in:
- Due diligence
- Successful integration
- IT Carve outs
Application modernization
- We can support you in modernizing your application landscape, leveraging modern technologies such as:
- Data & AI Platforms
- Public cloud, containers and DevSecOps
- Integration Platforms
- Low- and No Code
- 5G
Low- and no code
- We have extensive experience in various low- and no code technologies and can support you in:
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- Assessing the maturity of your capabilities in this area, using our proven tools and checklists
- Creating a low- no code strategy & roadmap
- Vendor selection
- Setting up the right governance and processes
Interim management
- We can make an experienced CIO-COO (see this link) available:
- As interim CIO
- In a temporary digital transformation leadership role
Why us
We have a proven track record and use similar methodologies as larger consulting firms.
What makes us unique is our pragmatic hands-on, result-driven approach, helping you achieve your objectives quicker and at lower cost.
We deliver CIO support services via a flexible As a Service model.
Experienced
- We have a proven track record in multiple industries and continuously keep up to date on the latest technologies & methodologies
- See this link for more details
Pragmatic
- We make sure meetings are well prepared, efficient and effective
- Our proven approach, templates, tools & checklists are optimized for:
- max. speed
- min. use of your time
- max. buy-in
- max. business value
- min. number of slides
Neutral
- We only do consultancy and sell no other services
- Our mission is to be your trusted partner, giving unbiased advice
- We can cooperate with any IT implementation and support partner and can support you in managing your IT partners
As a service
- Support can be called off on ad hoc basis for maximum flexibility.
- Support capacity can also be booked upfront for a certain period (typically yearly), resulting in cost savings and confirmed availability. Within this capacity, the planning can be regularly reviewed (typically monthly) in a flexible way.