Plan. Design. Implement.
What is a vCIO? A Virtual Chief Information Officer (vCIO) is the person who is both familiar with your business processes as well as the current technology you are using, yet it not a dedicated full-time resource. Our vCIO works with the senior executives, managers, and technology staff (if applicable) to align with strategic planning and budget preparation.
We offer strategic technology planning services to augment your organization and to provide recommendations in areas of best practices and industry standards, assisting companies move forward in a strategic manor. We can fully immerse ourselves in the overall strategic planning exercise or fill a specific need within an already established corporate vision.
The vCIO is familiar with the unique challenges organizations encounter in relation to their infrastructure and successful delivery of their product /service offerings. The vCIO is a trusted advisor that can continue to guide your organization forward while maintaining and, often times, improving IT infrastructure stability and end user functionality.
Our Approach
We utilize a phased approach to strategic planning; this process generally applies to organizations of all sizes and can easily be scaled to meet the needs even the most complex organization.
The strategic planning process includes:
- Identifying your corporate vision and future roadmap for business growth.
- Reverse engineering the long term vision to create the short term action plan.
- Identifying specific approaches or strategies that must be implemented to reach each goal – create an operational plan that begins to address the short term action items.
- Review the progress and direction of the operational planning and adjust as necessary to ensure infrastructure changes are always in line with the corporate goals and objectives.
Deliverables
Although we have listed our typical approach, we construct a unique strategic roadmap and guide for each client during the initial consultation and throughout the relationship.
- Recurring executive vCIO review to align business goals and drive IT efficiencies.
- Infrastructure review and analysis of current vs. desired state and creation of strategic IT roadmap.
- Guide executives with technical best practices & financial recommendations.
- Review of business continuity, disaster recovery plans, and specific industry best practices.