Altenbernd Consulting LLC

Virtual CIO

Over the past decade or so, technology has increased enormously in both its complexity and its importance. Technology is now central to the way companies do business. To deal with these new challenges, most companies have created the position of Chief Information Officer or Chief Technology Officer, frequently with a sizable staff, to focus full time on getting the most out of the firm’s investment in technology. This executive-level officer generally has years of experience and very likely an advanced degree, possibly in business. He or she is highly skilled, highly educated, and highly paid.

Small and mid-sized businesses are no less dependent on technology, and they have the requirement for effective technology management. They need a person with the same level of attainment in intelligence, education, and skill. But they don’t really need, and certainly cannot afford to pay the going rate for, a fill-time, fully qualified CIO.

What can they do?

Let Us Be Your Virtual CIO

One of the most effective things a business owner, like you, can do is engage the services of an experienced, skilled, and well-educated technology consultancy, like us, to serve as your virtual Chief Information Officer. Working in close partnership with you, we can identify opportunities to leverage technology and can define and manage projects that take advantage of those opportunities, coordinating the work of the many diverse technicians whose skills will be needed. We can help you make the best use of the technology you have in place, ensuring that you fully utilize what you have before you invest in additional technology assets. We will give you the same high level of expertise that you could expect from a full-time CIO. But we will provide that expertise, and you will pay for it, only on an as-needed basis.

You’ll find that we are a unique technology consulting firm. We think about business problems in the same way you do because each of us is the owner-manager of our own small business. Half of us have advanced degrees, mostly MBAs. And all of us have years of both formal training and hands-on experience with computers and technology consulting.

For more than 20 years, we at Altenbernd Consulting have been assisting businesses get the most from their investment in technology. We can probably help you.

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