CIO Professional Services Named a “Top 50 Tech Company”

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Published: Tuesday, July 02, 2019 07:00

Badge Intercon Award CIO Professional Services 2019By Jeff Richards
Partner

Since 2009 CIO Professional Services has provided strategic IT consulting and business/IT alignment services for a wide range of enterprise clients. Our consultants are all highly-experienced, world class executives who have a true passion for what they do.

Seeing the significant difference that our efforts make for our clients is enormously satisfying. Receiving glowing testimonials from these clients always makes our day. As my father always said, a job well done is its own reward…and normally I would agree and say that all of this feedback is enough.

But as we were recently reminded, sometimes it really feels good to receive recognition from your peers, too.

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An Excellent IT Service Delivery Model for SMBs

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Published: Tuesday, June 18, 2019 07:00

An Excellent IT Service Delivery Model for SMBsBy Mike Cashman Sr.
Associate Consultant

When the conversation turns to IT service delivery for SMBs (small- and medium-sized businesses), the question that is often asked is this: Which is better—having a full internal IT department or using a fully outsourced external IT provider?

What we’ve seen in practice, though, is that if you’re thinking in terms of “internal vs. external” you’re focusing on the wrong thing. A better question to ask is “how can I maximize my IT spend in order to achieve the desired end results?” The answer is usually not to go with an all internal or all external approach. In my experience, the best IT service delivery for SMBs is a hybrid, multi-modal model.

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Tech Trend Predictions from the Churchill Club’s 21st Annual Meeting

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Published: Tuesday, June 04, 2019 12:10

Churchill's Top Ten 2019By Jeff Richards
Managing Partner

Each year the Churchill Club, a not-for-profit public benefit organization, holds a “Top 10 Tech Trends” meeting. A panel of five venture capital partners each present two predictions regarding the top tech trends that will be affecting the market four or five years from now. Each VC presents their first prediction and the other VCs vote on it. Then the moderator turns it over to the audience members, who use an app to register their votes. After each panel member has presented their first idea, the moderator goes down the line and repeats the process for their second idea.

I’ve been attending this event for 13 years now. I’ve found that the meeting is both thought-provoking and entertaining, and a great way to get executives thinking out of the box beyond their annual planning horizon. Plus, it usually gives me lots of interesting things to talk about at client meetings, cocktail parties and networking events!

This year was the 21st annual edition of this event, and there were probably 600 to 700 people in attendance. CIO Professional Services bought a table. Everyone in our group of nine really enjoyed the event, which spurred some very stimulating conversation.

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