A Virtual CIO for Your Business
Strategic IT development to help your business grow.
Expertise and experience, without the expenditure.
How a virtual CIO can help you
Your business is growing and your IT requirements are increasing. On top of that, the world is changing, cyber threats are more prevalent, and your IT challenges are more complex.
At the same time, your IT infrastructure can help your business to grow, enabling your team to produce their best work and providing the support and services your clients needs.
You need IT support and guidance from a senior, industry-leading professional to help steer you on the right path to avoid the pitfalls and manage and enable your growth.
And you need all of this without the cost of a full-time salary for an IT Director.
The key advantages of a vCIO
Senior IT experts, deployed on a part-time or fractional basis, can bring immediate benefits to your business.
IT Strategy
Plan your IT to match the requirements of your future business. Plan for growth, global expansion or whatever your ambition can determine.
Expertise
Maximise the output from your existing technology. Understand the IT landscape to pick the right tools for future use, at the right price.
Cost Management
Effectively manage the cost of your IT growth, while employing your strategic advice fractionally, saving a full-time salary.
Remove IT stress with a vCIO
Business growth is and exciting, but stressful phase. Bringing on board new customers, hiring new staff and planning new products and services. Through all of this, you need to have your IT systems just working.
But while you’re growing, you can’t afford the senior expertise you need on a full-time basis, and you’re not sure if someone more junior would be up to the task.
A vCIO can remove that worry. IT will not only work now, but be aligned with your strategic growth. Whether it’s ensuring you have adequate cybersecurity, bringing AI into your business processes or making sure that you are ready for global expansion, a vCIO provides the expertise that can scale with your business does.
An ERGOS vCIO
With over 20 Years in IT, Chris has worked in an MSP, as a vCIO for SMEs and as the CIO for a mid-tier accountancy firm. Throughout his career he has focussed on:
- Developing and implementing forward-thinking IT strategies
- Ensuring stable and scalable IT infrastructure
- Leading projects that have improved operational efficiency through digital transformation
- Embracing AI adoption
- Building frameworks for better knowledge sharing
- Mitigating risks and building resilience
Examples of how AI works for business
A venue business that has focussed on updating its customer-facing tech, but not prioritised its back-office, has a history of paperwork bottlenecks that waste time and damage supplier relationships.
As part of a larger IT Consulting project ERGOS would scope out back-office AI solutions.
Tools such as Invoice Capture and PO Integration and Matching would be developed to ensure AI efficiencies were captured.
The results of this project would be increased invoice speed and accuracy, improved vendor relations and an overall modernisation of the IT suite.
A food supplier that prides itself on high quality, sustainable produce for the top restaurants in the south of England is still using manual processes to take orders and update stock records, allowing inefficiencies and errors to creep in.
IT Support from ERGOS can provide a wider review of the business’s IT requirements and help them move to cloud services, while recognising the value AI could bring.
An AI Order Assistant to manage orders that come over WhatsApp or phone would be a perfect solution. And an Image-Based Stock Tool would allow hand-written stock notes to be read and processed.
These AI tools would mean faster order handling, increased accuracy and an overall efficiency improvement, without changing the nature of the business and its interactions with customers.