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IT ORGANIZATION

Technology leadership.
Matched to the job that needs doing.

A leadership vacancy, a growing business, or an important initiative can create a gap between what the business needs and what the IT organization can deliver. Faros provides fractional and interim CIO support with a clear remit and direct accountability.

Discuss your leadership needs

CHOOSE THE ENGAGEMENT

Fractional or interim?
Start with the need.

Fractional CIO

Ongoing, part-time technology leadership alongside your management team. Useful when the business needs strategic direction and executive judgment without a full-time CIO appointment.

  • Connect technology priorities to the business plan.
  • Develop and maintain a practical technology roadmap.
  • Help management make investment, vendor, and application decisions.
  • Guide the existing IT team and strengthen its operating model.

Interim CIO

Time-bound leadership during an executive transition or a period of change. Useful when decisions, people, and critical initiatives need continuity while the business determines its longer-term leadership structure.

  • Establish priorities and maintain management visibility.
  • Support the existing team through a leadership gap.
  • Keep important programs and decisions moving.
  • Plan the handoff to a permanent leader or the next operating model.

BEYOND THE TITLE

The IT organization
has to support the plan.

A leadership appointment alone does not resolve unclear roles, competing priorities, or capability gaps. IT organization optimization can be part of the engagement or a focused piece of work in its own right.

People & responsibilities

Assess roles, capacity, and capability. Clarify what the organization can deliver and where additional support or a different structure is needed.

Priorities & decisions

Make the work visible. Connect the roadmap to business priorities and establish how investment and delivery decisions get made.

Vendors & execution

Review vendor responsibilities, application decisions, and key initiatives. Put ownership and a useful management cadence around the next steps.

WORKING WITH FAROS

A defined remit.
A direct working relationship.

01

Agree the job to be done.

Define the business challenge, decision authority, reporting relationship, time commitment, and expected work products.

02

Assess and prioritize.

Understand the current organization, the work already in flight, and the decisions that need attention first.

03

Lead, review, and hand over.

Work alongside management and the IT team, review progress against the remit, and make the transition plan explicit.

You work directly with Aaron Higley. The engagement is scoped around the business need, rather than a fixed package of hours or a title alone.

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TALK WITH FAROS

What needs leadership right now?

Tell us about the business, the leadership gap or initiative, and the timing. That is the starting point for deciding what kind of support makes sense.

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