We are successful technology executives from leading start-up and FORTUNE 500® companies who bring deep operational and technology experience to early-stage, mid-stage and mature companies. We deliver immediate results that enable your company to win in your market and grow at exceptional rates. 

 

Let us help you win.

Early stage companies benefit from proven executive leadership, access to funding sources and “insider” market knowledge. We help mid-stage growth companies expand products and services and scale operations. Mature companies use our experience to streamline operations.

 

Recent engagements:

  • KNOW WHERE YOU STAND - Assess IT performance and capabilities across people, process and technology. These insights are especially valuable during change in leadership and when organizations look to improve performance.
  • BUILD PROCESSES AND SYSTEMS THAT SCALE – For an early stage company experiencing explosive growth, quickly identified and used business differentiators to drive rapid application strategy and road-map development. Selecting ERP vendor and systems integrator on path to rapid implementation.
  • GET AND KEEP YOUR PROJECTS ON TRACK - Assure delivery of new eCommerce capabilities. Performed deep assessment of full technology stack, addressed issues with outsourced development approach and partners, reset PMO and provided coaching to business and technical leaders.
  • SPEED TO MARKET AND REVENUE - For an early stage company, change business model, go to market strategy and company structure to improve sales and organization agility while reducing burn rate by 30%.
  • INSIDE THE MIND OF A CIO℠ - Advise leading enterprise software, infrastructure as a service and communication services providers to accelerate sales targeting the CIO.
 

Accelerate Speed-To-Market, Revenue and Profit

  • Focus on speed-based strategy
    • Speed-based vision, culture and mindset
    • Architect products and services for speed
    • Know upside of being early (and the cost of being late)
    • Compensation is speed based
    • Champion real-time decisions
  • Innovating with the customer at the center
    • Knowing the customers’ perception of competitiveness, quality, TTM and performance
    • Focus on customer solutions that feature ease of use
    • Involving the right players in joint development of product and services
    • Incorporating lessons and best practices into new programs
    • Making the right product and development trade-offs
    • Exchanging design and manufacturability concepts with customers and suppliers
  • Planning and resourcing upfront
    • Building a complete plan upfront that accounts for market and technical risks
    • Allocating sufficient and realistic resources and talent upfront
    • Involve strategic customers early
    • Establish strategic supplier relationships early
  • Integrate across functions
    • Create tight and empowered cross-functional teams
    • Iterate in partnership across functions
    • Select the right organization for the task
    • Support teams with fluid parallel processes

 

 

Enable technical innovation and scale

  • Technical Innovation and Scale
    • Enable the business through technology innovation
    • Innovative products and services
    • Technology enabled operations
    • Assuring and accelerating delivery of programs and projects
  • Ensure technology scales to meet business demand
    • Stress testing current products and services
    • (Re)architecting applications and infrastructure for scale
  • Implementing the right technologies
    • Exploit relevant technology trends
    • A technology stack architected for change
    • Selecting the right technologies and tools
    • Incorporating new technologies as they change over time
  • Effective organization and process
    • Instilling the right mindset
    • Effective operating model and structure
    • Agile development processes

 

 

Improve business capabilities and streamline operations

  • Implement new technology enabled business capabilities
    • A framework for making and monitoring key decisions
    • Business aligned operations and IT strategy
    • The right programs and projects staged the right order
    • Assuring and accelerating delivery of programs and projects
    • Ensuring that all pieces fit together
  • Streamline existing business processes and systems
    • Stability across business and IT
    • Improved cycle times
    • Benchmark performance
  • Enable your teams to reach their full potential
    • An environment where talent thrives
    • A clear, inspirational and achievable vision
    • An organization structure that supports your strategy
    • Leaders teaching leaders
  • Reduce costs
    • Taking a global perspective
    • Having a complete financial picture
    • Aligning projects to business imperatives
    • Maximum consolidation and standardization
    • An effective sourcing strategy