Advisory, Coaching and Mentoring

Challenge: Professionally, you  hit a ceiling and though you are not likely to abide, you are patient. You know you are not first to get to this point. You want to benefit from experience and jump-start your knowledge quickly and then always have it available to compliment your own.

Solution: A thirty minute three item call to get you situated:

1. We ground our conversation in our perspective on advisory, coaching, consulting and professional services.
2. We discuss any goals and expectations you might be coming with and the context for how this all comes together.
3. We exchange our key takeaways and schedule a follow-up.

Follow-through: Then we get you oriented. On our next call, we exchange what we believe we understand at that time. We contemplate how we might help you get positioned for your undertaking. And agree to the engagement model that most naturally applies. Then we schedule our next steps…and get work.

Fractional, Interim, Virtual CIO

Challenge: Your organization would benefit from a dedicated executive to provide strategic direction, operational oversight and execution leadership for your technology and data management capabilities. It may, however, be an inopportune time to add a new CxO to the executive ranks for a variety of reasons, one of which may be that the financial milestones have not yet been achieved to support the costs that accompany such expertise (that is, you can’t afford it yet).

Solution: The benefits of a professionalized technology or data management operation can be realized through a part time or temporary CIO. Working as a member of the executive team, a Fractional, Interim and Virtual CIO may be chartered with all of the accountabilities that a full-time CIO would be; or a subset of them that may be prioritized for specific focus by the leadership. It is not uncommon for Fractional CIOs to serve multiple organizations simultaneously, absent any evident conflicts of interest in doing so.