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CIO Execution Engine™

You Know What Needs to Get Done. We Help You Get It Done.

The CIO Execution Engine™ gives CIOs the leadership, technical expertise, and execution capacity to move critical technology initiatives from priority to progress to results.

Strategic Program Management + Technical Expertise + Execution as a Service

Let's Talk About What You Need to Execute
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Three capabilities. One engine.

01
Strategic Program ManagementSomeone owns the outcome.
02
Technical ExpertiseThe expertise you need, when you need it.
03
Execution as a ServiceCapacity to move priorities forward.

THE PROBLEM

Strategy Usually Isn't the Hardest Part. Execution Is.

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  • You have the roadmap.
  • You know the priorities.
  • You know what needs to change.
  • But your internal team is already running the business.
  • They're supporting users.
  • Managing infrastructure.
  • Responding to security issues.
  • Working with vendors.
  • Managing projects.
  • Putting out fires.
  • And somewhere in between, they're expected to execute the organization's most important strategic initiatives.
  • That's when priorities start competing for capacity.
  • Projects slow down.
  • Deadlines move.
  • Accountability becomes unclear.
  • Specialized expertise is difficult to find.
  • And initiatives everyone agrees are important remain unfinished.

Knowing what needs to happen isn't the same as having the capacity to make it happen.

THE REALITY

Your Team May Not Need to Work Harder. They May Need More Around Them.

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When an important initiative stalls, the answer isn't always another full-time employee.

Sometimes you need:

An experienced program leader.

Sometimes:

Specialized technical expertise.

Sometimes:

Additional engineering capacity.

Sometimes:

Better coordination between internal teams and vendors.

Sometimes:

Clear ownership and accountability.

And sometimes you need all of them.

That's what the Execution Engine was designed to provide.

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CIO Execution Engine™

Knowing what needs to happen isn’t the same as the capacity to make it happen.

INTRODUCING THE EXECUTION ENGINE

The CIO Execution Engine™ Flexible Execution Capacity for the CIO's Most Important Priorities.

The Execution Engine extends your IT organization with the capabilities required to move strategic initiatives forward.

Instead of forcing every initiative into a predefined service offering, we start with the outcome you need to achieve.

Then we assemble the right combination of:

STRATEGIC PROGRAM MANAGEMENTTECHNICAL EXPERTISEEXECUTION AS A SERVICE

to help get it done.

Your priorities determine the engine.

Not the other way around.

THE EXECUTION ENGINE MODEL

Three Capabilities. One Execution Engine.

01

STRATEGIC PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

Someone Owns the Outcome.

Complex initiatives need more than task management.

They need leadership.

Our strategic program leaders help create the structure required to move work forward across internal teams, vendors, executives, and technical resources.

That can include:

  • Program leadership
  • Governance
  • Planning and sequencing
  • Stakeholder coordination
  • Vendor management
  • Risk and issue management
  • Executive reporting
  • Milestone management
  • Accountability

The objective is simple:

Important initiatives should not require the CIO to personally chase every moving part.

02

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Bring In the Expertise You Need, When You Need It.

Your internal team doesn't need to be expert in everything.

And it rarely makes sense to permanently hire every specialized capability an initiative might require.

The Execution Engine provides access to technical expertise based on the work.

Capabilities can include:

  • Cloud architecture & engineering
  • Cybersecurity
  • Infrastructure
  • Modernization
  • FinOps
  • Migration
  • Architecture
  • Technical assessments
  • Specialized engineering

And additional expertise based on the initiative.

Get the capability without unnecessarily adding permanent overhead.

03

EXECUTION AS A SERVICE

Add Capacity Without Adding Headcount.

  • Sometimes the issue isn't strategy.
  • Or expertise.
  • There simply aren't enough hours available inside the organization to execute everything that matters.

Execution as a Service gives CIOs flexible capacity to accelerate priority initiatives without building an entirely new internal team.

  • Scale resources around the work.
  • Bring them in when they're needed.
  • Adjust as priorities change.
  • And reduce them when the work is complete.

Capacity when you need it. Without carrying it when you don't.

HOW THE EXECUTION ENGINE WORKS

From Priority to Progress in Three Steps.

01

DEFINE

What needs to get done?

We clarify the outcome, scope, constraints, dependencies, resources, ownership, and definition of success.

02

MOBILIZE

What will it take to get there?

We determine the right combination of program leadership, technical expertise, internal resources, technology partners, and execution capacity.

03

EXECUTE

Get it done.

We help drive the initiative forward with clear ownership, accountability, visibility, and measurable progress.

Discuss Your Initiative

WHAT CAN WE HELP EXECUTE?

Bring Us the Priority That Isn't Moving Fast Enough.

The Execution Engine isn't limited to one technology.

It's designed around the CIO's agenda.

Cloud & Modernization

  • Cloud migrations
  • Infrastructure modernization
  • Architecture transformation
  • AWS initiatives
  • Cloud optimization
  • Landing zones
  • Data center modernization

Cybersecurity & Risk

  • Security remediation
  • Security modernization
  • Compliance initiatives
  • Identity and access projects
  • Security architecture
  • Cybersecurity program initiatives

Finops & Cost Optimization

  • Cloud cost optimization
  • Technology spend visibility
  • Governance
  • Cost controls
  • Optimization programs

Strategic Technology Programs

  • Enterprise technology initiatives
  • Transformation programs
  • Vendor transitions
  • Platform implementations
  • Multi-vendor initiatives
  • Strategic remediation programs

Program Recovery

  • Stalled projects
  • At-risk initiatives
  • Unclear ownership
  • Missed milestones
  • Vendor coordination challenges
  • Execution bottlenecks

Other CIO Priorities

If it's important to the technology organization and additional leadership, expertise, or capacity can help move it forward, let's talk.

Tell Us What You Need to Get Done

DIFFERENT FROM STAFF AUGMENTATION

You Don't Need More Résumés. You Need an Outcome.

Traditional staff augmentation often begins with:

"What role do you need?"

We start with:

"What are you trying to accomplish?"

  • Then we determine the capabilities required to accomplish it.
  • You may need one specialist.
  • You may need a program leader coordinating your existing resources.
  • You may need an integrated team.
  • Or you may only need us for one critical portion of the initiative.

Start with the outcome. Build the team around it.

DIFFERENT FROM TRADITIONAL CONSULTING

We Don't Want to Stop at the Recommendation.

Leaders meeting in a conference room
  • Traditional consulting can end with:
  • A strategy.
  • A presentation.
  • A roadmap.
  • A list of recommendations.

But CIOs still have to answer:

"Who's actually going to do this?"

The Execution Engine is designed to help close that gap.

We can move from:

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RoadmapProgram
PriorityInitiative
InitiativeExecution
ExecutionOutcome

Because strategy only creates value when something changes.

DIFFERENT FROM ANOTHER IT VENDOR

Your Initiative Comes First.

We aren't trying to force every problem into one technology platform.

The Execution Engine can work alongside:

  • Your internal IT team
  • Your existing vendors
  • Technology manufacturers
  • Cloud providers
  • Specialized partners
  • Executive leadership

Our role is to help align the resources required to achieve the outcome.

We don't need to replace your ecosystem.

We help make it execute.

WHEN TO USE THE EXECUTION ENGINE

The Execution Engine Makes Sense When... You know what needs to happen, but your team doesn't have the bandwidth.

  • An important initiative keeps slipping behind operational priorities.
  • You need specialized expertise that doesn't exist internally.
  • Multiple vendors or teams need stronger coordination.
  • A project needs experienced program leadership.
  • An initiative is stalled or at risk.
  • You need additional execution capacity without adding permanent headcount.
  • You've completed a strategy or assessment and now need someone to drive implementation.

Or simply:

"This needs to get done."

FLEXIBILITY

Use As Much, or As Little, of the Engine as You Need.

Not every initiative requires the entire Execution Engine model.

You may need:

Program Leadership

Your technical resources. Our program leadership.

Specialized Expertise

Your program. Our technical specialist.

Execution Capacity

Your strategy. Additional resources to execute it.

Full Execution Engine

Our program leadership.

  • Our technical expertise.
  • Our execution capacity.
  • Working alongside your team and existing partners.

The Execution Engine expands and contracts around the initiative.

HOW IT CONNECTS

The Execution Engine Can Start With S.C.O.R.E., But It Doesn't Have To.

Our broader approach is:

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  • CIO S.C.O.R.E.™ helps uncover what deserves attention.
  • The CIO Roadmap helps prioritize what matters most.
  • the Execution Engine™ helps execute it.
  • But you don't need to complete S.C.O.R.E. to use the Execution Engine.

If you already know what needs to happen:

Start there.

Bring us the initiative.

We'll help determine what it will take to move it forward.

THE CIO EXPERIENCE

Your Execution Engine Should Give You Leverage.

Technology leader in a gray blazer

Imagine knowing that an important initiative has:

  • Clear ownership.
  • The right expertise.
  • Defined milestones.
  • Executive visibility.
  • Accountability.
  • Enough capacity.
  • Someone driving it forward every day.

Instead of asking:

  • "Where does this project stand?"
  • "Who owns this?"
  • "Why hasn't this moved?"
  • "Do we have the resources?"
  • "Why am I still chasing this?"

You have confidence that:

  • It's moving.
  • It's owned.
  • It's getting done.

THE OUTCOME

Get Out of the Middle of Every Initiative.

The CIO shouldn't have to be the organization's chief project manager.

The Execution Engine helps create the leadership, expertise, capacity, and accountability around your priorities so you can spend less time personally driving execution.

And more time doing what only you can do:

  • Setting direction.
  • Leading your team.
  • Partnering with the business.
  • Making strategic decisions.
  • Preparing the organization for what's next.
  • Let your team run IT.
  • Let the Execution Engine help drive execution.
  • You lead what's next.
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Execution

Get out of the middle of every initiative.

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What Needs to Get Done?

Technology leader in a glass-walled office
  • Maybe it's a cloud migration.
  • A cybersecurity initiative.
  • A modernization program.
  • A cost optimization effort.
  • A stalled project.
  • Or something entirely different.
  • You already know it's important.

Let's figure out what it will take to get it done.

Talk to us about your Initiative

No predefined package. No unnecessary commitment. Start with the outcome.