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In a recent blog post, I spoke about the increasing number of requests I hear from small and medium-sized enterprises looking for a more strategic IT manager and why they end up hiring such a person.
In this post, I speak about the barriers I hear about from companies about getting a CIO, that strategic IT manager. and how to hire for this role on board without breaking the bank.
Not if you scope the role correctly! At your company size, you don’t need someone who spends 40 hours a week thinking about your strategic technology needs, especially when it is not core to your business. In that case, it’s likely not the right place to put that kind of investment anyway.
In this case, you should consider a part-time advisor. A once or twice-a-week gig, when you first start. After that one day a month when you get to the maintenance phase. Either way, you may want to consider getting a CIO on retainer.
Here’s the thing about the technology field, there are so many domains within the industry. There’s Networking, IT Security, Software development, Hardware maintenance, Outsourcing strategy, Project management, and on and on and on. Most ICT professionals specialise in one or two of these areas. So the likelihood that your brother-cousin-friend knows of more than one or two of these areas is low. Often those of us in the technology field hear people say; “Oh, you are in IT? Then come and help me with my laptop” when frankly, many of us don’t know the first thing about laptops because we’re too busy working on networks, software, security, products or one of the other domains.
A CIO on the other hand has a different kind of specialty – they have to know a lot about all these areas. Specifically, they have the know-how to cobble them together for your business.
So my advise to you, is to find a technology professional who can truly advise you about all the aspects of IT for your business. If that’s your brother-cousin-friend, great! If not, get the right person. In the long run, you won’t get the benefits if you do not have the right role.
This is also, interestingly enough, often not the optimal approach. You certainly can do it and there may be a good reason to, but having advice early on how to use technology to grow and optimize your business could make it easier, faster, and probably even easier to get started.
So perhaps instead of letting these blockers take residence, consider hiring a part-time CIO resource to at least advise you on what technology can, and should do, for your small or medium-sized business.
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In a recent blog post, I spoke about the increasing number of requests I hear from small and medium-sized enterprises looking for a more strategic IT manager and why they end up hiring such a person.
In this post, I speak about the barriers I hear about from companies about getting a CIO, that strategic IT manager. and how to hire for this role on board without breaking the bank.
Not if you scope the role correctly! At your company size, you don’t need someone who spends 40 hours a week thinking about your strategic technology needs, especially when it is not core to your business. In that case, it’s likely not the right place to put that kind of investment anyway.
In this case, you should consider a part-time advisor. A once or twice-a-week gig, when you first start. After that one day a month when you get to the maintenance phase. Either way, you may want to consider getting a CIO on retainer.
Here’s the thing about the technology field, there are so many domains within the industry. There’s Networking, IT Security, Software development, Hardware maintenance, Outsourcing strategy, Project management, and on and on and on. Most ICT professionals specialise in one or two of these areas. So the likelihood that your brother-cousin-friend knows of more than one or two of these areas is low.
Often those of us in the technology field hear people say; “Oh, you are in IT? Then come and help me with my laptop” when frankly, many of us don’t know the first thing about laptops because we’re too busy working on networks, software, security, products or one of the other domains.
A CIO on the other hand has a different kind of specialty – they have to know a lot about all these areas. Specifically, they have the know-how to cobble them together for your business.
So my advise to you, is to find a technology professional who can truly advise you about all the aspects of IT for your business. If that’s your brother-cousin-friend, great! If not, get the right person. In the long run, you won’t get the benefits if you do not have the right role.
This is also, interestingly enough, often not the optimal approach. You certainly can do it and there may be a good reason to, but having advice early on how to use technology to grow and optimize your business could make it easier, faster, and probably even easier to get started.
So perhaps instead of letting these blockers take residence, consider hiring a part-time CIO resource to at least advise you on what technology can, and should do, for your small or medium-sized business.
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