Meeting periodic demands and sudden changes:
- Reviewing vendor strategy for cost effectiveness and impact on the business process (reality check)
- Binding the IT plan to strategic and operating plans and budgets
- A 'Be There' trusted resource when help is needed during rapid growth / deceleration
- Transition planning and implementation during start-up, acquisition or as the result of a divestiture / spin off
- Already trained, capable stand-in to meet unexpected turnover
- Responding to finance driven turnaround needs
- Project management
- Systems upgrades and conversions
- System design & implementation
Fulfilling part-time CIO/IT manager needs for growing organizations:
- Forecast and manage vendors, commitments and deadlines
- Direct staff effort to achieve quick impact
- Develop management reporting consistency
- Review and improve process controls
- Review proposals for major expenditures
- Plan IT Organization development - determining when to transition from part-time to full-time staff
- Negotiate contracts
- Develop KPI and Critical Success Factor metrics