What is an Interim CIO?

An Interim CIO is a full-time consultant acting in a CIO role both strategically and operationally with experience managing an IT organization. Your Interim CIO works for an agreed upon specified period of time and has specific goals and objectives to achieve for your organization.

What is a Fractional CIO?

A Fractional CIO is someone who can advise you on a part-time basis on technology strategy and operations, assess your IT operation, manage a key project, or rescue a project in trouble. A Fractional CIO will provide strategic technology advisory services that fit your budget.

Why do you need an Interim or Fractional CIO?

Maybe your CIO recently flew the coop, leaving you with a talent gap or an operational challenge. Or maybe you just showed your CIO the door after many unsuccessful attempts to get your relationship on track.

Great CIOs are rare and hard to find. Perhaps you need someone to take the reins for a spell while you search for the right CIO for your organization.

Great CIOs are facilitators, diplomats, advisors, strategists and highly skilled business managers.

The job requires a mix of technology expertise and outstanding business acumen.

How will an Interim or Fractional CIO help my organization?

An interim or fractional CIO will help you in many ways.

• By operating transparently, gathering input from everyone in your organization both inside and outside IT.
• By providing an experienced perspective for your IT organization and projects.
• By reporting to Senior Management with simple, understandable dashboards that communicate the success metrics of IT in your organization.
• By suggesting alternative strategies and tactics based on the experience of running an IT organization like yours.
• By setting clear goals and objectives not matter what the time frame.