Services

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Our consultants  have substantial specific experience providing IT consulting services to emerging as well as small and mid-size companies. Past career successes have enabled us to offer executive level services to companies looking to take advantage of the benefits of a strategically focused IT function without  incurring the high costs associated with a full-time CIO.
 

By “sharing” an experienced, effective, Fractional CIO with other organizations, it is possible for a company to derive the benefits of a highly capable employee, without having to bear the full burden of the costs.

 

An IT Assessment can provide both qualitative and quantitative measurements of IT performance, delivering key insights regarding staff, business alignment, user communication, strategy, and risk management. An assessment can deliver more than just metrics; but can also provide valuable industry best practices, root cause analysis, and subject matter expertise to provide actionable results and prioritized recommendations. Done properly an assessment can equip an organization with the foundation needed for planning upgrades, migrations, or modifications to the current technology environment and direction. 

Assessments can take a variety of forms. It is possible, and usually desirable to take a holistic view of the entire organization but it is also possible to focus on a specific sub-function (Technology Stack, Staffing, Process (including policies and procedures), and Budget) or environment (e.g. cloud, on premise or hybrid) within the IT function. An assessment can also be a useful exercise during a Merger and Acquisition process. 

With the growth of technologies such as Cloud Computing, Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed Services, etc. there are a dizzying Array of choices with unclear ROI and potentially significant impact on an organization.

With an equal focus on technology and business, CIO Options can either work with you to develop a comprehensive strategic plan for evaluating and integrating these technologies, or evaluate your current plan.

Perhaps the only thing that has changed as dramatically as technology over the past decade is compliance regulation. Organizations have to spend ever increasing amounts of effort to address these mandates, often causing IT departments to become distracted from addressing core business needs.

CIO Options consultants have the skills and experience necessary to make your management of the regulatory environment as painless as possible. 

From an internal perspective it is important to be able to identify and mitigate your business’ exposure to risk, whether it's uncertainty in the marketplace, control failures, natural disasters, or deliberate attacks from an adversary, CIO Options' consultants and partners offer a variety of services to you reduce your exposure. 

Diligence work during a merger or acquisition can significantly increase the probability that the transaction will more quickly provide the anticipated ROI. Through the upfront evaluation of a company's IT environment CIO Options can identify operational synergies, potential compliance issues and assess the degree of alignment between IT systems and applications and the strategic goals of the business. 

• Business Continuity Planning 
•  Interim CIO services  
•  IT Project Management and Oversight 
•  Software Package /Technology Evaluation 
•   Software Implementation Management (ERP, Financials, CRM)  
•   Cloud Computing Migration  
•   Cloud / SaaS ROI Analysis 
•   Integration of SaaS Applications 
•   IT Process Design, Methodologies, Policies
•   Sourcing, Procurement  and Vendor Management 
•   Business Process Re-engineering 
•   Data Center Move Management