IT Leadership: vCIO
Where Technology Meets Business
Mission Critical Alignment
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Getting technology to properly support key business objectives is far easier said than done. Business success and technology effectiveness are both exceedingly difficult to achieve from different (almost opposite) directions, and it takes a particular set of skills to bridge those worlds.
Our clients tend to know fairly clearly what business outcomes they want, but getting clear on what technology can best support those outcomes can be something of a "telephone game" with critical details and intent lost along the way.
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At the highest level, our ability to get to proper alignment depends on one key role:
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The Virtual Chief Information Officer (vCIO)
A CIO is, most fundamentally, a businessperson. Someone who understands profit and loss and long-range business planning. At the same time, the CIO needs to understand clearly what technology is capable of and where common sense and business acumen are more important than bits and bytes. Most small to mid-sized businesses can't afford to have a dedicated CIO on staff, which is where the vCIO role comes in. A seasoned CIO can support multiple organizations as a vCIO, particularly when the organizations in question all fall within a single vertical market.
SAM WEINER - vCIO
WineryConnect's Founder, Sam is a 30+ year veteran of the software industry with a focus on Enterprise Application Integration and Enterprise Architecture. For most of his career, Sam has worked with large organizations with deep pockets which can afford their own dedicated IT department and custom software development to keep themselves maneuverable and to gain competitive advantage. Sam has also been a start-up entrepreneur, worked in middle-management at large organizations, and been a partner in several business ventures.
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One of Sam's primary responsibilities in WineryConnect is to work with our clients to help them characterize and understand the information they need to have the firmest grasp on in order to understand how they are doing relative to core business objectives.