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CIO/CTO Advisory
Overview:
In recent years, CIOs, CTOs, and Senior IT leaders have broadened the scope of their responsibilities and impact. Across a range of management programs – performance management, risk management, cost control, migration to the cloud, strategic sourcing, governance, and IT recalibration - these executives are executing strategy, delivering new IT enabled business capabilities, and maintaining strong cost discipline.
StrataFusion’s CIO/CTO Advisory services will help IT leaders with tools, knowledge, decision-making support, objectivity, and IT leadership expertise to save time and money, mitigate risk, and to execute bold IT enabled business initiatives.

CIO/CTO Advisory
Methodology:
StrataFusion’s proprietary and proven CIO/CTO Advisory methodology represents a valuable toolkit that embodies our greatest asset: StrataFusion’s collective knowledge capital. It has been built over many years, across a multiplicity of engagements, and by the contribution of numerous seasoned management consulting and IT thought-leaders.
Our methodology is used to bring StrataFusion's solutions to clients using a phased approach and proven best practices to deliver rapid returns and reduced risk. It is empirical, comprehensive, and flexible with an underlying component framework that is mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive. Our methodology lays out a distinct sequence and tasks for the completion of an IT initiative optimizing the delivery of successful results. For more details about our methodology, please contact Shevy Magen at smagen@stratafusion.com or +1 310 880 8788.
OVERVIEW
StrataFusion's Assessment stage helps optimize program decision-making by evaluating the current-state environment for all IT towers/domains under evaluation, their shortcomings, and the relative value of opportunities for each scenario under consideration for improvement.SAMPLE DELIVERABLES (Partial List)
- Strategic IT Drivers
- Baseline Assessment(s)
- Improvement Criteria
- Scenario Analysis
OVERVIEW
The primary objective of StrataFusion's Definition stage is to create the definitive and authoritative position on the 'blueprint' for the program -- so that every individual and team is working towards the same goal, and that every stakeholder is expecting the same outcomes.SAMPLE DELIVERABLES (Partial List)
- Solution Requirements Functional Report
- Solution Requirements Technical Report
- Data Models
- Architecture Diagrams
- High-Level Action Plan
OVERVIEW
StrataFusion's detailed Design leadership translates requirements from the Definition stage into detailed specifications needed to support the technology transformation efforts including the technical architecture, applications configuration, system interfaces and data conversion necessary to ensure a successful program.SAMPLE DELIVERABLES (Partial List)
- User Interface Design
- Business Component Design
- Report Design
- Data Mapping
- Integration Design
- Conversion Design
- Systems Architecture
OVERVIEW
StrataFusion's Deployment stage helps focus on the execution of the pre-defined rollout plan, a complex coordination of resources and solution components that all must come together over a short period of time, including data conversion, production environment readiness, source code migration, end-user training, and transition execution and sign-off.SAMPLE DELIVERABLES (Partial List)
- Executed Conversion and Data Transfer Reports
- Support Escalation Procedures
- Help Desk Policies & Procedures
- Inventory of System Documentation
- Contact and Support Procedures List
OVERVIEW
StrataFusion's Optimization stage helps organizations to effectively manage the ongoing support of an IT solution release, while ensuring that the solution meets targeted business needs and is adopted effectively.SAMPLE DELIVERABLES (Partial List)
- Support Knowledge Base
- Executed System Enhancements
- Solution Evaluation Report
- ROI Validation Report
- Optimization Action Plan
OVERVIEW
StrataFusion's Program Management leadership helps establish the creation of a Program Charter that articulates the purpose, scope, and operation of the PMO. StrataFusion's Change Management leadership helps to eliminate the program risk specifically associated with the human component of the change initiative by implementing methods for improving personnel acceptance and adoption.SAMPLE DELIVERABLES (Partial List)
- Program Charter
- Program Management Standards
- Communication Plan
- Program Management Toolkit
- Change Management Dashboard

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