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What Makes a Strong and Successful CIO?
The CIO position is a bridge of two business leadership roles: a business leader and an information technology leader. It can be particularly challenging to find a truly qualified CIO because these two discplines are extremely complex and diverse.
Crossroads Business Solutions can help you bridge this divide by providing outsourced CIO services that leverage the business and technology expertise of our founder, Rob Green.
The Challenge
Within the business role there are three core areas in which a CIO must have a strong high-level fluency:
- Financials
- Operations
- Sales & Marketing
In addition to the high-level understanding, the CIO must have a deep understaning in one core business area.
Within the I.T. role there are also three core disciplines:
- Applications
- Infrastructure
- Help Desk
A strong CIO will have a solid understanding of each area as well as a deep knowledge and hands-on career experience in one particular area. Without professional hands-on experience from entry level to leadership capacity the CIO's ability to challenge and manage technical team assertations and claims can be difficult. Creating systems and programs with accountability of engineers is challenging at best, and success is less likely.
Let Us Be Your CIO
Our team is led by Crossroads Business Solutions' founder Rob Green, who is a former hospital CFO and who holds an MBA in finance. Rob's transition from business to engineering began with an entry-level help desk position and, following a migration through the ranks of the I.T. department, culminated in leadership responsibility for 80 engineers that serviced accounts such as Eli Lilly and Company, RCA, Thompson Electric, St. Vincent's, and others.
By acting as your CIO, Crossroads Business Solutions can help you immediately fill a need for a CIO, with deep and broad expertise in utilizing technology solutions to solve business problems and achieve business goals. We can help you either transition to a new full-time hire or fill a longer-term need.
Contact us to hear how you can put our expertise, experience, and industry certifications to work for you as a part of your business; so we can work together to improve your business results.