Contract CIO+
Innovating Beyond Efficiency® to Drive Revenue & Enterprise Value
Our Flagship Leadership Service solves Fractional CIO, Virtual CIO, and Interim CIO offerings in one month-to-month service
Expert Leadership for Tech-Powered Transformation
Technology and AI are changing business models faster than at any point in history, and it’s happening across every industry. Contract CIO+® was designed for the challenges of this moment. In this, our flagship service, we embed proven C-level IT & AI leaders – handpicked from our team of 450+ consultants – to lead tech strategy and execution for midsize clients.
We collaborate with executives to re-envision their company’s business model in light of recent technology advances, and then to lead the efforts to bring that vision to life.
For midsize companies, now is the moment. Large corporations are too slow to move, and startups lack scale. The organizations that act now can leapfrog incumbents to dominate their sector – if they can navigate transformation decisively.
That’s where Contract CIO+® comes in.
Our leaders bring proven sector insights and the discipline to surface the best ideas that already exist within your organization – then integrate them into a single, ROI-focused vision that aligns with your overall strategy, industry positioning, and culture.
Once the vision is approved, we’re ready to lead the initiatives to bring it to life. Contract CIO+® combines the concepts of Virtual CIO, Fractional CIO, Interim CIO, and Project CIO leadership in one easy month-to-month structure for clients. Our consultant joins your leadership team on a contract basis, and begins to add value from day 1.
$2.6B Impact to date for Mid-market Organizations
The Question Every Board of Directors Should be Asking, and Every CEO Should Be Able to Answer Confidently
Are you Leveraging IT & AI to Grow Your Revenue and Enterprise Value?
Every organization today depends on technology for competitiveness, yet few have a senior leader focused solely on turning IT & AI into business advantage. Without dedicated CIO-level leadership, strategy often stalls at the planning stage. Boards and CEOs are asking tougher questions than ever:
Are our technology initiatives producing measurable returns?
Who is accountable for executing our digital transformation — not just planning it?
Are we managing risk and compliance as aggressively as we pursue growth?
How does our IT spend translate to revenue and valuation improvement?
Contract CIO® provides strategic answers and leadership on these questions, tailored to your organization, from an expert from your industry
Our leaders bring deep industry experience in both strategic transformation and execution excellence. They deliver cultural and architectural guidance, process structure, energy and momentum, and accountability for ROI results.
Unlike managed service providers or vendors, our consultants are independent of implementation incentives. Their only goal is to maximize ROI from your technology portfolio. They ensure your roadmap doesn’t just exist – it delivers.
With a consultant matched to your industry and business model, using our award-winning proprietary “Innovate Beyond Efficiency®” framework, we help organizations move beyond simply “keeping the lights on and the hackers away” to leveraging technology as a true driver of business impact.
Designed for huge tech-powered ROI in the Mid-market
Priced for Flexibility · Structured for Accountability
Contract CIO+® engagements run month-to-month; there is no long-term client contract with Innovation Vista, because we believe strongly that our clients will see measurable and steady ROI from our consultants each and every month; our interests are always aligned.
Our concept combines many common variations of contract CIO services. You choose the intensity that fits your situation, whether our consultant will lead your overall IT or will support a CIO by leading specific strategic initiatives. Because we structure all of our engagements as month-to-month partnerships, these distinctions melt away, leaving flexibility for adjustments as milestones are met and our tech strategy becomes self-funding. Our Contract CIO+® services therefore include the most relevant aspects of these services for each client situation:
· “Digital Transformation leadership” · Our consultant leads an IT & AI-powered transformation program, often composed of multiple projects, each progressing the vision but also with its own ROI.
· “Virtual/Fractional CIO” · Our consultant leads IT and Innovation on a part-time basis, including digital initiatives, governance, and vendor strategy for midsize organizations with smaller IT departments.
· “Interim/Project CIO” · Our consultant leads IT or a strategic project, often on a full-time basis but for a limited time period. Depending on the engagement, consultants can lead overall IT or a strategic project (e.g. enterprise system implementation, M&A transaction).
· “Governance for Secure, Stabilized, Optimized IT” · Our consultant reviews your IT platform, organization, policies, and processes, to ensure alignment to best practices.
For organizations seeking measurable impact, Contract CIO+® provides the innovation framework and the leadership horsepower to deliver it, in an affordable package (which for most clients becomes not only self-funding, but ROI-driving within the first few months), with only month-to-month commitment.
How can we make that kind of asymmetrical offer? Because we know the power of our innovation framework and our consultants’ expertise. Isn’t it time you learned about them as well?
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