Where we get called in.
Most companies do not go looking for a fractional executive. They go looking for an answer to something specific. These are the ones that bring people to us, with what we actually think about each.
Do we need one AI platform, or ten separate tools?
Three departments have each found a tool they want. Two vendors you already pay are adding AI features and raising the price. A third is pitching a single platform that claims to replace all of it. Nobody in the building can tell you which of those claims is real.
Read the positionAI and security exposureHow is AI changing what our company is exposed to?
Two things changed at once, and most companies are only tracking one of them.
Read the positionCustomer security questionnaireOur biggest customer sent a security questionnaire we cannot answer.
It arrives as a spreadsheet with a couple of hundred rows and a two week deadline, usually attached to a renewal. Somewhere around row forty it stops being a formality. Do you have a written incident response plan. When did you last test restores. Who reviews access when someone leaves.
Read the positionPost-acquisition integrationWe acquired a company and nobody owns the systems integration.
The deal closed. Both companies still run their own finance system, their own email, their own everything. Two IT arrangements, neither of which was built to absorb the other. The synergy case assumed an integration that nobody has been made accountable for.
Read the positionNew leadership, unknown functionI am new here and I have no idea whether our technology is in good shape.
You are three weeks in. The technology budget is a number you cannot yet justify. The person running it is either the reason things work or the reason they do not, and you have no basis to tell which. Every vendor in the building wants a meeting.
Read the positionMaintaining it long termWho maintains all of this after the project ends?
You have been through this before. A firm came in, delivered something that worked on the day it launched, and left. A year later the person who understood it has moved on, the documentation was never finished, and nobody can say whether it is still configured the way it was handed over.
Read the positionFacing something that fits none of these cleanly?
Tell us the situation you are weighing. We will tell you whether it is work we should take, and how we would approach it.
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