Visionary Businesses

Chief Information Officers

As the CIO of a dynamic mid-tier business, the integral role you play will be evolving rapidly as technology becomes an ever growing priority for CEOs. Your work ranges from delivering IT fundamentals to pioneering the visionary. You bring a unique perspective to the business: through the lens of technology and the potential it brings, you can focus on both the end-to-end working of the business and on the constant technological developments driving new value in the industry.

Translating IT into business potential

Effective communication is an enormous part of your role. Your capacity to see the potential of new technologies means you are relied on to shape the CEO's vision of the business: to translate the technology into real value, and communicate this value effectively to the board as they form their strategy. Your core strength is turning data into insight, and insight into strategic action. Battling to overcome scepticism in the business and using IT to remove organisational barriers are also significant responsibilities. In order to protect the competitive position of the business, you must lead a culture willing to innovate and embrace the unifying benefits of the right IT for a truly collaborative, global, productive working environment.

Talent deficit and budget restraints

Whether you directly manage an in-house IT team, delegate to an IT manager, or take sole responsibility for your business IT, delivering day-to-day functionality on top of all your other responsibilities requires a level of support that many businesses struggle to find. Talent is a major issue: shortage of the skills needed to innovate poses a major risk to mid-market businesses that have neither the resource to attract experts nor the time to invest in training. A lack of talent also compromises your time and strategic focus with day-to-day issues. Budget is always scarce, and enormous investments are required to constantly upgrade business IT.

Realising your value with Acora

Outsourcing your IT who experts who understand your business is a simple way to juggle less. We create wholly flexible services shaped around you:  delivered wherever, however, at whatever level suits you. We can supplement your existing team with expertise, or provide a new one entirely; we can manage all of your day-to-day IT responsibilities, or just the part that gives you the most strain. Replace the cost and risk of constant innovation and maintenance with a managed IT system ready to flex strategically around your ambitions, for a fixed monthly cost and no associated risk, so you can focus on shaping a business vision that means long-term success.