Up NextText Box: Do you need a full time CIO? Can you afford a full time CIO? Should you consider a part-time CIO? Are you getting the key benefits a CIO can provide—strategic planning that improves business results and IT operational management? Does your existing IT staff have the breadth of business and technical skills and time to be your CIO?

Where Vision Meets reality
Text Box: Should you consider outsourcing the CIO position? Most mid-market companies don’t have full time CIOs. Do they add value? Are they affordable? Can you justify and retain a quality full time employee? Now, experienced and affordable, interim or part-time CIOs are available. CIOs have two primary responsibilities—one focuses on strategy and the other on execution. Strategy focuses on business and IT alignment, identifying and enabling business opportunities and streamlining business processes. Do IT projects increase the number of customers? Do they increase revenue? Do they add value to the business? In the end, strategic planning is about success in the marketplace. Execution focuses more on operations, vendor management and technology selection. CIOs face a major challenge to control costs strategically for the entire company, rather than simply responding to cost pressures by reducing the IT organization's costs. Two skills are vital to meet this challenge: portfolio management and collaboration. The CIO will manage a project portfolio for business results instead of whether projects stay within an arbitrary time line or within a certain budget. Also, CIOs have to work very closely with other business units to carefully select projects that will bring value to the company. The ability to communicate, understand business processes and operations, and strategic thinking and planning are the three skills that are most pivotal for the CIO's success. Why make Denali Partners your interim or part-time CIO? Denali Partners may be employed as an interim or part-time Chief Information Officer or serve on a specific project basis. We bring demonstrated business experience including executive management, sales, marketing and product management, manufacturing and engineering that will improve your business results. Our extensive IT experience includes consulting, implementing and selling financial, ERP, CRM and manufacturing systems for the mid-market. Text Box: Denali Partners, LLC 6242 Carmel Station Avenue Charlotte, NC 28226 704.541.5217 rick.moore@denali-partners.com 21 Jacobs Mill Ct Elgin, SC 29045 803.467.0455 john.herrel@denali-partners.com www.denali-partners.com