Virtual IT Director

A Virtual IT Director is an outsourced IT executive which provides IT expertise to organisations that can't find - or can't justify - a full-time IT executive member of staff. The Fifth Step Virtual IT Director service circumvents this issue

Fifth Step provides heavyweight Virtual IT Director services to businesses that need high-quality and advanced IT expertise capable of assuming the responsibility for managing your IT provision, thus allowing you to concentrate on other elements of your business.

Fifth Step Virtual IT Director is a flexible, practical and effective way of providing the IT strategic leadership and drive your business needs, without the costs and other overheads associated with employing someone in the role full time.

Highly effective

The Virtual IT Director dedicates an agreed amount of time to the client’s needs. To help keep you costs down, much of this work can be undertaken remotely, and any on-site visits can be complimented by remote meetings using web conference tools.

Full flexibility

Our approach is highly flexible, and can be tailored to large multi-national concerns as well as small start-ups – and everything in between.

In addition to executive level services, we can also provide lower-level IT support, or, alternatively, we can utilise your existing IT staff – allowing them to tap into our senior IT management expertise to help build your IT strategy and capability.

Total aligned

Our Virtual IT Directors will work with you to analyse your organisation's IT needs, create a technology strategy and culture that aligns with your business strategy, as well as hire appropriate staff. Our job is to understand what your business needs are, and to create the most appropriate and effective IT strategy and infrastructure to both enable and support it. No more. No less.

Service highlights

• Business focused service to align your IT to best serve your business requirements
• Strategic guidance and alignment, staff development and up-skilling, and IT project management
• Systems analysis and service architecture design
• Security analysis and system hardening
• Performance of due diligence as part of a merger or acquisition
• Platform and software recommendation and configuration support
• IT Staff training
• Expert troubleshooting and support
• IT project management and reporting
• Executive technology liaison

Who's using these services?

Our Virtual IT Director services are designed to be broad and flexible, allowing a variety of organisations to improve their business, including:

• Businesses preparing for sale who recognise the need to improve their IT
• Companies looking to establish offices in a new location, either as part of expansion or relocation
• Businesses looking to audit IT as part of merger and acquisition
• Those companies that presently do not have, or can't justify a full time IT Director or CIO
• Companies that have a large or specialist project to deliver
• Businesses looking to review the fitness for purpose of their existing IT software or infrastructure
• Organisations looking to implement ITIL or a similar governance framework
• Those organisations who are looking to update their business strategy and appreciate that maintaining Business and IT alignment is critical to modern business success

Act now

Email the Virtual IT Director Team or call us on 020 328 999 37 today to arrange a FREE no obligation discussion to review your needs and receive a FREE initial analysis of your IT environment and how to improve it.

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