Our consultations begin with a discovery phase, including an online questionnaire, a high-level review of your IT spending, and understanding of your current priorities.  

This allows us to tailor a half-a-day in-person or online strategy session with your tech team, where we'll evaluate your business priorities, review current technology initiatives, discuss your IT strategy and outline a high-level technology roadmap.

Deliverables: 

Overall perspective on your technology spend and digital initiatives compared to peers, identification of gaps and opportunities by key technology domains (e.g., core platforms, cybersecurity,data and analytics, legacy and Cloud adoption)  

High-level assessment of improvement opportunities and a directional longer-term technology roadmap with 2-3 critical KPIs.

The key premise behind the ideation workshop is that the solution is often known by the IT team and our main objectives are to discover and unearth it, while preserving the ownership by the IT team, validate it using our collective experience and define a concrete set initiatives to capture the value.

The process starts with pre-workshop data collection and analysis to build hypotheses. In the workshop, we review these findings, solicit ideas from the IT team, and collectively assess their value and implementation. This collaborative approach helps align new initiatives with existing IT and business projects.

Deliverables: 

The main deliverable of the Ideation Workshop is to identify efficiency and IT-enabled growth opportunities and value levers with directional value estimate; outline dependencies and potential execution challenges. 

This initial list of opportunities serves as a starting point for designing a comprehensive IT improvement program, focused on efficiency, growth, or design of foundational IT-enabled capabilities.  

A Fractional CTO provides part-time, high-level technology leadership, ideal for small to medium-sized businesses needing strategic guidance without the cost of a full-time executive.

Our Fractional CTO services include:

• Developing a technology roadmap aligned with your business goals.

• Evaluating and recommending technology solutions, infrastructure, and emerging tech.

• Guiding development teams and overseeing software or product initiatives.

• Managing and negotiating vendor relationships.

• Driving process improvements, innovation, and digital transformation.

• Enhancing cybersecurity practices and overseeing risk assessments.

• Hiring, building, and mentoring your IT team.

Changing IT leadership provides a crucial opportunity to reassess your technology and strategy. Before hiring a new CIO or CTO, partner with us to ensure you hire the right leader and set them up for success. We will help you validate your business-driven aspiration for the IT team, assess the current state of your technology function, and define and socialize with business leaders a directional roadmap for the new CIO.