You are struggling to find valuable work. With so many businesses undergoing a fundamental transformation to meet an increasingly digital world, practitioners in the IT business space should be filled to the brim with work – and yet many are struggling to get that work.
- IT Consultants are constantly hunting for their next engagements.
- MSPs are challenged with being seen as anything more than custodians of the network and its systems.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
A Virtual CIO is still a CIO in form and function. They must perform this function in a way that is repeatable and scalable across a variety of clients. With a tight service definition and a clear execution plan, a virtual CIO can address client uniqueness within the engagement without customizing how the engagement is delivered.
- Virtual CIO is not just a label for a quarterly sales prospecting meeting. The virtual CIO is an acting chief information officer of the client’s organization. While there are changes in how the job is executed on a day-to-day basis, the full scope of what a CIO is responsible for is not reduced just because the resource is not full-time.
- While the functions of a CIO do not change in a fractional engagement, the approach to fractional delivery must. Your delivery needs to have a defined execution plan that includes success metrics, deliverables, and a schedule of set engagements. When your virtual CIOs deliver a consistent engagement structure to all their clients, it simplifies their delivery and can address more clients.
Impact and Result
The IT Leader's role is indeed well-defined, which leaves no reason why it can't be offered as a service. Our approach to this is the following:
- Use our research to determine the specific activities and deliverables needed to refine your virtual CIO offering.
- Standardize these activities and deliverables in order to scale the delivery and make it easier to sell.