Many IT organisations struggle to maintain appropriate service levels as the organisation changes through mergers, acquisitions, and demergers. If unchecked,...
Assistance with your technology transformation program
Getting reliable IT advice is critical to any modern organisation, and with the ever changing
global market – poor technology choices can put you at a competitive disadvantage.
Our Program
The IT Leader that you need to commence a transformation agenda is not the one you want for the ongoing work on managing your technology function. Although change is considered the only constant in IT, the skills and experience needed in a transformational or remedial capability uplift is often different to that of running a sustainable continuous improvement focused function.
The Beyond Technology Interim CIO subscription is a service designed to provide a known fixed price service for a limited time period in order to create change momentum and deliver progress on the organisations IT and digital transformation or remediation roadmap recommendations. Using our expertise and experience, a Beyond Technology Principal consultant will engage directly with your organisation to work with the internal team, or external partners to deliver key outcomes. This advisory service seeks to take a pragmatic approach to adjust the cadence of change to match the capabilities and appetite of the organisation and ensure that costs and disruption levels are optimised to the actual and changing circumstance of the business. The service is defined by both intensity level (applied consulting effort per week) and expected duration that allows for peaks and troughs of required effort to be averaged across the delivery.
Your consultant will determine the requirements and the estimate the best match to your requirements. As appropriate, in the last two months of the service, a decision will be made on progress to expectation and if an extension is required, or if the focus should move to function handover.
The Interim CIO service is available in the following standard package:
Platinum Subscription 2 days per week (average) of consulting effort
Gold Subscription 1 day per week (average) of consulting effort
Silver Subscription 1 day per fortnight (average) of consulting effort
Interim CIO Service Inclusions
- Evolve the operating model for information technology
- Evolve the strategic and remediation roadmap
- Evolve technical governance
- Provide trusted advice to executive leadership team
- Monitor and improve service levels and user experience
- Develop handover plan, assist with recruitment and handover of IT function
- Provide governance and expertise to defined key projects
- Internal Beyond Technology Consulting activity, including planning, peer review and quality assurance
- Succession planning
The IT Leader that you need to commence a transformation agenda is not the one you want for the ongoing work on managing your technology function.
After you identified the root cause of our difficulties we have never looked back”CFO | Financial Services Industry
I was astounded to see how reprioritising our IT could deliver such a material improvement in business outcomes”MD | Large field services organisation
It’s the first time that I clearly understand how we engage our IT to change the status quo”CEO | Large Professional Services Firm
Our business outcomes
Beyond Technology advise businesses on how to optimise the use of IT to achieve business outcomes.
Beyond Technology Consulting has several ways to help CFO’s and CIO’s to improve their organisation’s balance sheet. Our consultants are highly skilled in identifying how to optimise your IT costs to ensure that you are taking advantage of the technology available to your organisation.
Many organisations carry a significant IT failure risk without understanding either the potential or consequences of failure. Quantifying the latent risk, and taking steps to mitigate it not only makes good business sense, it often provides significant improvement in the efficiency and availability of “business as usual” IT service.
With the growing demands on IT departments it can be all too easy to focus on rapidly expanding capability and addressing the day-to-day challenges of running the technology. Properly aligning IT to direct business requirements, while improving the communication channels between IT and the business delivers massive efficiency and capability improvements.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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In most professions where information is asymmetric (i.e. the professional could take advantage of knowing more about the subject that they are advising you on) such as Lawyers and Doctors, the governing body can deregister the professional as stop them from practicing. This does not happen with Technology professionals so conflict of interest is a critical problem. Similarly when a technologist is heavily invested in one specific technology it often becomes their go-to solution (to a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail). By Maintaining our independence, Beyond Technology Consulting ensures that you are provided with unbiased and actionable advice that you can trust is free from conflict of interest and be assured that we are not monetising the advice that we provide you.
"Actionable Advice" is accessible, accurate and is advice that is provided in a language and manner that does not require technical qualifications to understand. We ensure that our recommendations are fit-for-purpose with an understanding of the context of your organisation to be both affordable and achievable.
We focus on understanding the core requirements of the business so that our advice is based on your requirements not the avaliable technology. This ensures that you don't end up with a solution looking for a problem and ensures that technology outcomes will grow with your business and flex with changes in the technology.
We focus on understanding the core requirements of the business so that our advice is based on your requirements not the avaliable technology. This combined with a bias towards flexible technology solutions helps to provide technology outcomes that will grow with your business and flex with changes in the technology.
There are two key reasons that organisations don't undertake regular independent technology reviews. Firstly many boards and executive don't know that organisations like Beyond Technology Consulting exist and they are left thinking that the only options are IT Audits that are provided by the big accounting firms that don't provide any answers or actionable advice. The second reason is that they don't feel that they understand enough about IT to be able to get value from a review. Beyond Technology Consulting understands this and have designed our organisation to provide "Actionable Advice" that is accessible, accurate and provided in a language and manner that does not require technical qualifications to understand.
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