CTO as a Service
What is a CTO as a service mandate?
A Chief Technical Officer (CTO) as a Service mandate aims to help a company or a business executive by assisting in making decisions related to Information Technology (IT). These decisions can be related to software choices, hiring, external service provider selection or budget management.
Who is it for?
To any company or executive who needs help in making IT decisions but does not have the financial resources or enough work to hire a full-time person in the Technical Direction position.
With a part-time CTO as a service mandate, a person can be involved on an ad hoc basis for a few hours per week or per month.
This allows a company or an executive to delegate decision-making and management of IT resources to someone with sufficient experience and expertise to assume the role with confidence.
Why work with us?
We have more than 15 years of professional experience in software development and even more in IT in general. We have also worked as CTO for several years, managing budgets, IT resources, choice of providers, internal IT hiring and career growth of IT employees.
We have the experience and expertise necessary to execute this type of strategic mandate. You can therefore rely on us to help you make structuring decisions and to support you in your digital transformation.
Our intervention can be occasional or on a regular basis, depending on your needs and your budget. The objective is to maximize the return on investment of each of our interventions.
How does a CTO as a service mandate work?
First of all, it is necessary to meet so that you expose us your requirements and your expectations. Following this meeting, we will be able to make you a commercial proposal presenting an on-demand intervention process, or on a regular basis.
Once the proposal is accepted, we could start to work and join if necessary your different internal processes.
In the case of occasional interventions, you contact us on demand and we intervene in the days that follow to address the specific problem you are facing.
In the case of regular interventions, we start by identifying your current issues to be addressed and defining your IT roadmap for the coming months. Thanks to this, we will be able to quickly suggest short and long-term recommendations.
We can then take care of the implementation of these recommendations, or you can do it on your own. In both cases, we define a meeting rhythm in order to make a regular follow-up and to manage the IT decisions.
Whether it is a one-time or regular intervention, it can be done remotely with virtual collaborative tools, or on-site at your company's offices.
How long is this type of mandate?
The duration of a CTO as a service mandate varies depending on requirements and the IT roadmap.
For a small company that simply needs some advice, it can be a few hours spread over a month.
For a company that wishes to grow and that faces more important problems, the intervention can extend over several months, at a pace of a few hours per week.
How much does it cost?
The cost of a CTO as a service mandate depends on its duration and potential travel.
The invoicing is done at an hourly rate (time and material). You only pay for hours actually worked, and the cost may vary according to the potential travel required.
Do you have examples of technical direction tasks?
Of course. If you are not sure how we can help you, here are some examples of tasks we have done in the past and for which we could assist you by providing technical direction:
- the management of your annual IT budget,
- constraints and risk management,
- strategic decision-making for your company,
- the implementation of new IT processes,
- building an internal IT training path,
- the design of an IT security policy for your information system,
- storage and management of your corporate data,
- the selection of a cloud infrastructure,
- the selection of tools or software used by your employees,
- the hiring of a CTO, developers or any other IT-related person,
- conducting RFPs to bid on platforms such as SEAO,
- choosing external service providers who would respond to your RFPs,
- technical debt management.
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