Your Trusted Advisor

Getting reliable advice is critical to your role as a technology leader. You may be able to rely on dependable 2IC’s with strong domain knowledge. However even the best 2IC can suffer from group think, internal political issues, or simply lack the relevant experience in the area you need.

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Our Program

Beyond Technology’s CIO advisory and mentoring service provides CIO’s and leading IT managers with access to a trusted advisor that can supply you with quality advice and a reliable sounding board for your ideas and initiatives without the potential for political fallout or influence.

Next Steps

Simply contact your Beyond Technology relationship manager to arrange for a Principal Consulting Partner to discuss with you the best consultant to be assigned to your organisation. Once you have reviewed the consultant background and are happy with the choice we will kick off the program with the first half day onsite session.

The Benefits

The direct benefits of your subscriptions to this service to your organisation include:

  • Monthly telephone mentoring sessions reviewing projects and current issues.
  • Direct access to a dedicated Consulting Partner for short ad hoc telephone conversations on matters and issues important to your organisation.
  • Indirect access to the breadth of knowledge across the Beyond Technology Team.
  • Indirect access to Beyond Technologies benchmark data and experience.
  • Half yearly onsite visit and status update session.
  • Annual full day onsite planning and strategy session.
  • Ongoing consistency of knowledge about your environment and challenges within our consulting team.

Vendors with the obvious conflict of interests are an unreliable source of information for IT leaders, similarly relying on a network of friends and ex-colleagues (that often work with commercial competitors) for advice and counsel on important decisions can place you in a compromising position.

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Our business outcomes

Beyond Technology advise businesses on how to optimise the use of IT to achieve business outcomes.

Beyond Technology Consulting has several ways to help CFO’s and CIO’s to improve their organisation’s balance sheet. Our consultants are highly skilled in identifying how to optimise your IT costs to ensure that you are taking advantage of the technology available to your organisation.

Many organisations carry a significant IT failure risk without understanding either the potential or consequences of failure. Quantifying the latent risk, and taking steps to mitigate it not only makes good business sense, it often provides significant improvement in the efficiency and availability of “business as usual” IT service.

With the growing demands on IT departments it can be all too easy to focus on rapidly expanding capability and addressing the day-to-day challenges of running the technology. Properly aligning IT to direct business requirements, while improving the communication channels between IT and the business delivers massive efficiency and capability improvements.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can’t find what you’re looking for? Drop us a line and we’d be happy to answers any questions you have.

In most professions where information is asymmetric (i.e. the professional could take advantage of knowing more about the subject that they are advising you on) such as Lawyers and Doctors, the governing body can deregister the professional as stop them from practicing. This does not happen with Technology professionals so conflict of interest is a critical problem. Similarly when a technologist is heavily invested in one specific technology it often becomes their go-to solution (to a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail). By Maintaining our independence, Beyond Technology Consulting ensures that you are provided with unbiased and actionable advice that you can trust is free from conflict of interest and be assured that we are not monetising the advice that we provide you.

"Actionable Advice" is accessible, accurate and is advice that is provided in a language and manner that does not require technical qualifications to understand. We ensure that our recommendations are fit-for-purpose with an understanding of the context of your organisation to be both affordable and achievable.

We focus on understanding the core requirements of the business so that our advice is based on your requirements not the avaliable technology. This ensures that you don't end up with a solution looking for a problem and ensures that technology outcomes will grow with your business and flex with changes in the technology.

We focus on understanding the core requirements of the business so that our advice is based on your requirements not the avaliable technology. This combined with a bias towards flexible technology solutions helps to provide technology outcomes that will grow with your business and flex with changes in the technology.

There are two key reasons that organisations don't undertake regular independent technology reviews. Firstly many boards and executive don't know that organisations like Beyond Technology Consulting exist and they are left thinking that the only options are IT Audits that are provided by the big accounting firms that don't provide any answers or actionable advice. The second reason is that they don't feel that they understand enough about IT to be able to get value from a review. Beyond Technology Consulting understands this and have designed our organisation to provide "Actionable Advice" that is accessible, accurate and provided in a language and manner that does not require technical qualifications to understand.

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