Virtual CTO Services
Technology is integral to every organization’s success. It is the foundation of core services, communication, and in building and managing valuable information. It is used to drive growth, to rise above competitors, to optimize processes, and to reach a global audience.
In order to unlock your business’ potential, a highly effective and competitive technology strategy is paramount, more so now than ever. In most small and medium businesses (SMB), technology leadership, expertise, and experience is severely lacking. Most SMB select the wrong technology, incorrect deployment schedules, and incorrect vendors and ervices. Just like enterprise, a great CTO is needed by these organizations to maximize results and leverage technology to its full advantage.
A full-time CTO is far too costly for SMB. For this reason, outsourcing CTO functions to a highly capable and well positioned technology firm, such as EKM, provides great results at a fraction of the cost.
With EKM’s vCTO Services, an experienced and dedicated CTO can be available to you virtually; via phone, email, and video conference.
Business owners and executives need guidance in IT decisions that will enable them to reap the greatest reward from thier business technology. Virtual CTO services can provide an expert IT strategy that will provide you with more benefits from your technology and more return on your technology investment.
Although the size of your company may not warrant a full time chief technology officer (CTO) or chief information officer (CIO) on staff, that doesn’t mean your business can go without the critical technical advice this role provides.
With our virtual CTO consulting services, you will both identify and remove the IT issues that are stopping your business from reaching its revenue goals. Instead, with a combination of strategy planning, future proofing, and technical guidance, your IT will become an asset in generating profit.
Virtual CIO Services include:
IT SWOT Analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats)
Your virtual CTO will help you boost your net-revenue by identifying potential cost escalation risks and promising opportunities in your IT system.
IT Roadmap and Action Plan
We’ll help your leadership procure only the hardware, software, and IT services your business needs to lower its costs, accelerate time-to-market, and increase profit.
Our virtual CTO services will ensure that your IT systems are kept up-to-date so that you are protected from costly cyber attacks and data breaches. In addition, your team will leverage software and hardware tools that boost its productivity.
IT Regulatory Compliance
EKM’s virtual CTO services will also keep you in-tune with your industry’s regulatory landscape. Be it data privacy, cybersecurity or other areas, you will avoid costly penalties. You will also gain the confidence to make swift business decisions — i.e., not spend your valuable time or attention on the paperwork (we’ll handle that).
Annual IT Budget
Your virtual CTO will ensure that your IT budget doesn’t become a budget black hole.
Rather, you will gain complete visibility into IT spending so that you can map how every IT dollar contributes to lowering your total costs.
You will also find ways to optimize your IT spending so that you can lower expenditure while still maintaining, if not improving, your productivity and time-to-market.
Network Health Reports
Don’t let patchy internet access or a compromised network stall your staff from getting their work done. As part of our virtual CTO services, you will have full visibility of your network connectivity.
Your network health reports will help you rapidly identify issues with your network connectivity and resolve them so that your business returns to operating efficiently.
Strategy and Business Development Services
At EKM besides the technology support and services we provide, we also will partner with you to assist you on your business goals and strategies to ensure you benefit the most from your existing and future business environment. From advancing your marketing and communications tools to gain more customers, building out your company structure so your people can work effectively as you grow your company size and add more locations, to working with you to strategies and take advantage of the latest resources in the industry to refine your product and business model.
Additional Virtual CTO services:
Participation on your IT steering committee to provide strategic guidance, assist with IT budget planning and develop your IT infrastructure road map
Assistance in the development and maintenance of your IT strategic plan, definition of IT projects and supervision of technology initiatives
Assistance with creating a strategic technology roadmap for your business by guiding you through proper planning, budgeting and detailed reporting to successfully execute your IT initiatives
Proactive Budgeting & Planning: helps predict IT costs. Customers who plan with vCIO/vCTO reduce overall IT overhead while achieving ROI:
Setting & enforcing standards for network operations & user support
Ensuring your IT infrastructure always meets business goals
Integrating New Technologies & Processes: Your vCIO/vCTO has the depth of knowledge to understand what technologies align to the business goals and how to implement them for best ROI.
Technology Summaries: Your vCIO/vCTO provides reports on the past and current health of your network. We discuss trends, issues, and recommendations based on this data.
Regular Meetings: Review your results and strategic vision roadmap to determine future action courses.
Examination and IT audit consultation, including how to respond to IT-related questionnaires for third-party and regulatory agencies, third-party IT audit support and consultation to prioritize audit-finding remediation
Disaster recovery planning, including consultation for enhancements to disaster recovery testing procedures and assisting with the development of your business continuity planning program
