How a CIO Advisory Can Empower Your IT Leadership

A CIO advisory helps your IT organization become more strategic and enable business outcomes. Our team provides support for a variety of IT initiatives, including preparing strategy plans and IT budgets, delivering IT architecture, supporting the IT roadmap, and enabling new and emerging technologies.

Managing technology in a rapidly evolving environment can be overwhelming for even the most seasoned IT leaders. Our consultants offer a fresh perspective on your IT challenges and can help your leadership team navigate the complexities of new technology, digital transformations, and emerging trends.

Many CIO advisory organizations struggle to make the transition from functional to strategic business leader. This can be due to the complexities of an increasingly complex IT portfolio, a lack of organizational culture and change management skills, or an inability to develop a creative, innovative culture that drives breakthrough capabilities for your company. Green Catapult’s CIO Advisory practice is uniquely positioned to address these challenges and empower your IT leadership team to drive innovation and enable business outcomes.

How a CIO Advisory Can Empower Your IT Leadership Team to Drive Innovation and Enable Business Outcomes

CIO Advisors can act as a sounding board for IT leadership or work directly with the CEO to identify IT strategies that enable the business to achieve its goals. Often, the most important technology decision of any organization is how to manage and optimize its IT portfolio to deliver value and performance.

Whether your IT functions are relatively immature or the underlying governance, structure and strategy need to be changed, our experienced CIO advisors can provide support to get things moving. They can set up an IT function from scratch or work with an existing team to prioritise operational issues and introduce new governance, processes and tools to bring about a marked reduction in the number of fires being extinguished and return your IT department to a state of equilibrium.

Too often, IT decisions don’t receive sufficient business scrutiny beyond cost and high-level strategy discussions. Transformative CIOs don’t settle for this and engage with other leaders across the business, articulating how a proposed solution solves the underlying business problem, what alternative approaches exist, and their pros and cons. For example, one retailer’s CIO created a war-room team that worked jointly with leaders from marketing, operations, sales, and ecommerce to prioritize projects in their tech transformation. This approach helped them drive progress and delivered products that succeeded where it mattered – with customers.

A skilled CIO can help you create and maintain a competitive edge in your industry. They can leverage their knowledge of technology solutions and business practices to develop IT-enabled business models that differentiate your offerings. They can also assist with the development of a digital innovation strategy that enables your company to deliver customer experiences and build market share.

A CIO advisory can help your company develop and implement IT risk management frameworks to ensure compliance, mitigate business risks, and ensure that all the necessary steps are taken to protect the information your company holds. They can also negotiate with your IT vendors and create vendor relationships that deliver optimal value.