vCIO - Virtual Chief Information Officer

Our vCIO or Virtual Chief Information Officer Service provides your company with a business savvy, technically knowledgeable outsourced Chief Information Officer. This service helps lower costs, increase the value of your business and make it easier to manage by aligning information technology systems and data management with business goals.

What is a virtual CIO?

A virtual CIO is an outsourced service that would normally be thought of as a full-time job within a company. Secondly, let’s define what a CIO is and the importance of it.

A Chief Information Officer is a job title normally given to the most senior executive in an enterprise responsible for information technology systems and data management in support of business goals. The CIO is a key contributor in formulating strategic plans for an organization. CIO’s normally report to the CEO.

Acting as an architect a CIO designs solutions that are implemented by an internal IT staff or are outsourced to specialist suppliers. Why and how these solutions are designed is derived from an ongoing evaluation of the organizations goals and business processes, often analyzing and reworking existing business processes in conjunction with systems design.

Creating and monitoring business value from assets and an organizations knowledge resources (data) is a part of business process improvement and typically involves internal (intranet) and external (Internet) access of the data by internal users, vendors, partners and customers.

Benefits of our Virtual Chief Information Officer Service

Experience:
Many candidates for Chief Information Officer have never owned their own business. Lacking this experience they tend to focus on the technical side of their sphere of influence (acting more like at CTO) rather than maximizing the value of the organizations digital assets to create business value.

Based on our principal’s 25 years of business ownership and technical experience our vCIO Service will continually focus on creating a strategy to increase business value for your company.

Cost:
There is no fee to an agency for finding the “right” person for the job. The ongoing cost is lower than a full time employee as there is no insurance, tax, pension or 401k liability.

Our vCIO service is flexible in nature, ongoing costs can actually go down for the vCIO service as operating models are put in place and proven effective.

Risk/Relationship:
Technical employees are often “putting their resume out there”, looking for a better opportunity. Turnover can be high in Executive level technical positions especially during periods of tight employment. This causes confusion and uncertainty within the organization, reducing effectiveness.

Our vCIO service focuses on establishing a mutually beneficial, partnership based relationship in helping to build your business. By the very nature of the relationship we are not looking for a better opportunity and can provide long term stability to your organization.