Your Part-Time Chief Information Officer

Information has always been valuable to businesses.

It is an asset, like employees or cash.

The last few decades have seen technology make it infinitely easier to collect, manage, and utilize a company's information assets more effectively.

As information management becomes more crucial to productivity, the concept of a Chief Information Officer (CIO) has become very commonplace in large businesses. Like the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) is responsible for financial assets, and the VP of HR is responsible for human assets, today the CIO is the executive who is ultimately responsible for the company's business information assets. Thus, the CIO oversees everything from buying computer systems to overreaching plans to tap technology for a competitive edge.

Small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) have the same needs to manage their assets as large businesses have; however, SMB budget realities demand that many executive roles like CFO and CIO are either shared, performed in a part-time capacity, or outsourced to professionals (e.g., CPAs).

Outsourcing financial management to a qualified CPA has been a long time practice for small and medium sized business owners. Simply because it is practical - the benefit of highly-specialized experience, when you need it, without the full time overhead.

Outsourcing information management to qualified professionals is an emerging trend for small and medium sized business owners. Again, simply because it is more practical to have the benefit of highly-specialized experience, when you need it, without the full time overhead.

For those businesses who have decided to outsource their CIO role, AXiXA provides the AXiXA CIO Service.

The AXiXA CIO Service:

This subscription-style service provides our clients with a part-time CIO - an experienced IT professional and manager, adept with conventional business systems and state-of-the-art information technology for small businesses - to assist you and your management team with strategic IT planning and project execution.

Your AXiXA CIO will begin with a Discovery session, to carefully understand your current business processes, goals, and practical realities.

Following Discovery, your AXiXA CIO will execute a comprehensive Audit of the existing technology supporting your business. This will produce a baseline to be used by finance, IT planning, and ongoing IT support.

With a solid understanding of the business, and a comprehensive IT baseline in hand, your AXiXA CIO will develop an overall IT Strategy and detailed IT Plan for your business. These will be evolved on a quarterly basis, or as-needed, to insure they keep pace with your business.