Consulting & quality
CTO as a Service
An experienced chief technology officer by your side, part-time, to lead your technology decisions without hiring a full-time profile.
01Approach
Choosing an architecture, hiring the right developers, choosing between two providers, keeping to a technical budget, reassuring an investor: these decisions call for a senior profile that not every organisation can afford, or needs, to employ full-time. CTO as a Service gives you access to that expertise, sized to your need.
Your iones CTO gets involved over the long term: they get to know your business, take part in your committees, steer your teams or your providers and defend your interests. They draw on the full range of iones skills (architecture, DevOps, security, AI) whenever a topic calls for a specialist.
The arrangement adapts to your situation: a few days a month for a young company, a stronger presence during a transformation phase, or an interim assignment while you recruit your own chief technology officer.
Scope of work
- Technical strategy and roadmap
- Architecture and technology choices
- Steering of teams and providers
- Recruitment and team structuring
- Governance, budget and risk management
- Technical due diligence
02Expertise
Steering the transformation
Orchestrate your projects with method and transparency, so that every step creates real value for the organisation.
- Roadmap aligned with your objectives
- Budget trade-offs and priorities
- Follow-up of providers and deliveries
Technology innovation
Identify and adopt the technologies that are genuinely relevant to your business, without giving in to fashion.
- Technology watch and evaluation
- Supervised POCs before any investment
- AI and automation opportunities
Change management
Win the teams over to the transformation through a human, gradual approach, and structure the technical organisation.
- Team organisation and rituals
- Recruitment and skills development
- Quality and security standards
03Methods & tools
The levers of a chief technology officer
A proven way of working, adapted to the size and maturity of your organisation.
Strategy
Linking technology to the company’s objectives.
- Roadmap
- Technical budget
- Build or buy
- Risk management
Architecture
Lasting, well-justified choices.
- Stack selection
- Cloud
- Security
- IS integration
Teams & delivery
Organising to deliver regularly.
- Agile
- CI/CD
- Code review
- Recruitment
Steering
Deciding on indicators.
- Jira
- Confluence
- Delivery indicators
- Steering committees
04Why iones
Why a fractional CTO
The level of an experienced chief technology officer, when you need it and in the amount you need.
Immediate expertise
A senior profile with large projects behind them, operational within days rather than after months of recruitment.
Just the right amount
An engagement adjusted to your need and your budget, which changes as your company changes.
Independent and on your side
Recommendations guided by your interest, including when it means challenging a provider or a technology.
A team behind them
Your CTO draws on iones experts for architecture, security, DevOps or AI whenever the topic requires it.
05Method
Our process for CTO as a Service
Step 01 Strategic analysis
- Assessment of technical maturity
- Analysis of business challenges
- Identification of opportunities
- Definition of the technical vision
- Alignment with objectives
Step 02 Technical governance
- Setting up processes
- Definition of standards
- Team organisation
- Resource management
- Quality control
Step 03 Operational support
- Project steering
- Technical decision-making
- Risk management
- Cost optimisation
- Performance tracking
Step 04 Innovation and evolution
- Technology watch
- Identification of innovations
- Digital transformation
- Ongoing training
- Continuous improvement
It is an experienced chief technology officer who works in your company part-time, without a full-time hire. They lead the technology decisions: roadmap, architecture, choice of providers, budget and risks. It is also called a fractional CTO, an outsourced CTO or shared technical leadership.
Mainly in three situations: a young company that does not yet have a chief technology officer, a company in transformation that needs a senior view on its choices, and an organisation that is recruiting its own chief technology officer and wants to keep its technical leadership in place in the meantime.
An employed CTO is present full-time and for the long term. CTO as a Service steps in at the level you need: a few days a month, stronger support during a transformation, or an interim assignment while an in-house chief technology officer is recruited. The arrangement changes with the need.
They define the technical strategy and roadmap, make the calls on architecture and technology choices, steer the teams and providers, structure recruitment, manage the budget and risks, and can lead a technical due diligence. They take part in your committees and get involved over the long term.
No. They draw on iones experts depending on the topic: architecture, DevOps, security, artificial intelligence. Their recommendations are made in your interest, including when it means challenging a provider or a technology.