Our virtual CIO addresses the need of Small and Medium businesses, to access a complete CIO service at an affordable cost and leverage the critical knowledge of IT professionals without taking on the salary commitment.. This service also supplement the CIO or CTO on staff with additional expertise. This role that combines technology consulting with business management consulting — providing crucial strategic and tactical services to organizations that can’t afford a full-time professional at that level. With today’s fast-moving technology, our virtual CIO will help with strategy and execution of all IT based business transformation. More productivity, increased marketplace agility, and big-picture corporate goals become achievable.
How will you gain from our Virtual CIO services

1. Decrease the costs of IT expertise by exercising options of pay by use services /or purchase of limited hours services.
2. Increase business agility and speed to the market
3. Benefit from our industry-proven results-based methodology, tools, processes, templates and large vendor network.

Small and some medium businesses are at times not able to get the benefit of technology as their staff focus on tactical issues. These businesses miss on strategic issues .SMBs require a senior technology professional to work on the strategic requirements , who understands the company’s business objectives and can provide direction on technology . This role is similar to the CIO role in large companies. However, the neither SMBs have a need for full time CIO nor this expensive resource is affordable.
At PMCoE, we understand the need of SMBs and offer virtual CIO service, where our experts work on part deployment or on pay by use basis . Our experts will take care of all your automation needs and we do our best to keep the team working on your processes available for you as and when you need them.

1. We work along with the Client Business leadership to prepare a business case on the value IT services can bring on board. We also help in develop / buy solution
   1. Crystallize the business benefits at the outset
   2. Set up a measurement mechanism to confirm realization of business goals at milestones. Direct /consult mid-course corrections
   3. Link the payout with business benefits realization
2. We help select the right vendor. Our experts are qualified to select the right vendors who can provide the required value.
3. We can manage the vendor/s on client's behalf. Small and medium businesses find very difficult to manage the vendors (especially offshored) and verify the quality of work delivered by them. Our services provide options to address this requirements by
   1. Being a consulting partner to the client and advice vendor/s management
   2. Take ownership of the client’s deliverables
4. We endeavor to provide industry, domain and technology specific PM skills on as required basis. The skills to manage complexities on the project can vary during a project / program life cycle. Businesses, especially SMBs will find it very difficult to provide the required skills and meet the peak requirements for additional PM resources. We address this requirement by
   1. Providing a large pool of skilled Project Managers with varied Industry experience
   2. Making skills available on fractional / pay by use model to meet additional requirements.
5. Many clients have started the projects and have got in to trouble with vendors or are finding it difficult to manage with internal customers, within their businesses. We provide the following services to them
   1. Recovering the troubled projects
   2. Risk Management
6. To ensure that the projects deliver adequate business value, there are a few additional skills and actions are required. Many businesses ignore these activities and do not reap the required benefits. We provide specialist skills to develop and manage these activities or consult on completion of these activities.
   1. Org Change Management
   2. Requirement traceability and verification Matrix
   3. Cut over Plan
   4. Data Migration
   5. Testing
7. We also provide project office support in terms of resources (full time / fractional or measured by deliverables. These resources are supported by back up, have worked on supporting project office for multiple projects and are equipped with required templates and tools