Virtual Chief Information Officer (vCIO)
Fine-tune your IT strategy, so you can focus on what’s important
Most businesses are hard-pressed to deliver on their core business objectives, let alone managing their technology properly and with IT teams often overwhelmed just by keeping IT operations up and running, it’s hard to plan strategically and fine-tune the engine of your business.
What is a vCIO?
Not every organisation is able to have a full-time CIO. The vCIO is a scalable resource to help you to take a fresh and strategic approach to IT, continually placing your business first and steering your IT journey to support and deliver against your broader objectives.
A vCIO provides your business with an accomplished technology expert with a deep understanding of business management. A vCIO provides actionable insights into how you can take your business into high gear.

What responsibilities does a vCIO take on?
The focus is all about getting technology to ensure information works for the business and helps the business to Increase revenue and reducing costs. Some of the key activities that make this happen.
- Create and continually align your IT Roadmap to business needs
- Strategic technology audits and reviews
- Advising on best practice and what is possible
- Planning and managing IT budgets
- Robust selection of systems and supplier
- Relationship management and guiding supplier roadmaps
- Directing and managing the system implementation
- Providing oversight on IT service delivery
- Direction and guidance on Information Security
How does our vCIO work?
Years of experience
Our unique ‘Business First’ approach will enable us to proactively collaborate and advise you on how best to ensure IT delivers maximum value to your business and allow you to focus on what you do best. Running and innovating your business.
By using an industry-experienced CIO, our clients take advantage of the vast knowledge and accomplishments built from years of working across multiple sectors and disciplines. Our vCIO service covers setting strategic IT objectives, planning IT budgets, optimising IT processes, infrastructure, cloud, applications and information security.
Here are just some of the things we can manage:
- Business & IT Strategy
- Robust disaster planning
- Cost optimisation and reduction
- Stay ahead of change
Conosco’s contribution to our fundamental digital transformation has been invaluable. The Virtual CIO model worked perfectly, providing internal leadership and direction and the ability to inject the right skills, at the right time, to ensure the success of our digital transformation
David L. Stern , CEO, Crabtree & Evelyn