For all our Fortune 100 clients, by invitation only, we offer up to THREE (3) complimentary Fortune 100 C-Level Strategy and Solution Sessions (3 hours each). Over 50 years of world-class consulting and IT best practices featuring the highest (C-Level strategy, business, projects, management, technical and industry) standards with proven hands-on experience are brought to bear in these powerful synergistic sessions! Even the most seasoned CEOs are left astounded!!!

The power behind these sessions is that they can be applied to solve any business, functional or technical problem/issue, even in the most complex of situations!This is all you have to do: have your key technical, business or functional decision makers work with you to select your top 3 mission critical problems, issues or challenges. (Business=CEO/CFO/customer-facing business unit head, Technical=CIO/IT head, Functional=key business unit sponsor/user/consumer/stakeholder)

Our best-in-class experts (senior executive C-Level facilitators) who are seasoned hands-on gurus in all business, technical, functional, management and global projects subject matters will work with you all the way from the mission-critical problem/issue to a viable solution, complete with a phased roadmap, key milestones, business-case justification, realistic project plans and a budget! From fighting fires and loosing money, to a viable solution, in just 3 hours!

The All-Star team (that includes you and your key business/functional/technical/project decision makers) will clearly articulate the problem/challenge/issue, capture it in a concise problem statement, tie it to mission critical business drivers, agree on scope, define success criteria, flesh out all the key requirements (business, technical and functional), specify guiding principles/design objectives and realistically aggregate all your current business and technical constraints.

We will brainstorm the 3 most viable solutions, narrow down to the very best and craft its most actionable plan, realistically sum up your current state, perform a gap analysis of the delta between the current state and the vision, determine how much it is costing you to maintain it/opportunity costs and how costs can be saved by leveraging existing components, identify the opportunity, define approach, prioritize and agree on next steps to fix the problem!

Our clients experience CIO ASAP's renowned SWAT team precision, working with their best and brightest to face mission-critical challenges, solve complex problems and fix all issues with practical solutions! Straight to the point, strategic, realistic, simple, cost-effective/budget-conscious, best practice-based and tactically efficient! Each mission-critical issue is handled in its own 3 hour session. We pride ourselves in fixing million-dollar problems in exactly 3 hours!

Agenda

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Value Proposition

Using our streamlined facilitation and brainstorming approach, our clients receive valuable and objective insights into their enterprise problems, plus a fully executable action-plan at the end of each session. The only investment they make is their time, 3 hours at a time/per session, for a total of 3 sessions.

As one Fortune 100 founding CEO exclaimed: 'we got more precise feedback, real-time insight and actionable intelligence about our business in just 9 hours than we've perhaps gleaned in the last 10 years! I've never imagined such all-round knowledge, talent and excellence embodied in one down-to-earth executive. A million-dollar problem was easily confronted with sound business principles - applied in as simple, straightforward, honest and direct a manner as is practically possible! Kudos!!!' The benefits are innumerable, lasting and priceless: definitely worth every single second spent in each power session!!! They include:

  • Absolutely zero-cost!!! Complimentary to our top-tier enterprise clients (Fortune 100), this is our way of saying 'thank you for your business' while growing long-term senior executive-level relationships! Clients receive all the work product. No need for costly "comprehensive assessments" and "solution designs" charging 3 or more months of billable work at exorbitant rates for heavy documentation that no one can understand or implement!
  • Cost reduction and elimination of waste - These economic times require all of us to operate lean, smart, yet productive organizations. We help our clients discover areas of waste, and opportunities for cost efficiency through consolidation, optimization, and simplification best practices.
  • Top-tier world-class expertise - Our best-in-class experts (senior executive C-Level facilitators) are excellent at what they do, the very best in the business: seasoned hands-on gurus in all business, technical, functional, global projects and management subject matters. We specialize in complex troubleshooting, root-cause determination, gap analysis and superior problem-solving for all mission-critical projects, processes and technologies.
  • Concrete, Prioritized and Realistic Action Plans - The most valuable outcome of this workshop is the viable solution and actionable work product, complete with a phased roadmap, key milestones, business-case justification, realistic project plans and a budget! Tailored to your business drivers, requirements, resources and capabilities, some clients have taken this straight to the board - even asked us to help them present - and received two to five times more funding than they requested for implementation! You may choose to execute on your own, with CIO ASAP or any other partner.
  • Achieving your business objectives and goals is our top strategic priority! We value our clients' business, satisfaction, relationship and success!

Methodology

Our clients select their top 3 mission critical problems. CIO ASAP and our client's key decision makers spend 3 hours in a focused workshop to deep-dive on 1 problem. With our three complimentary 3-hour sessions, we are able to tackle our client's top 3 mission-critical problems in 10 stages per session, as follows:

  1. Introductions and validation of objectives - Identify each participant's roles and bring all key decision makers to a common understanding and agreement of the nature of the problem and objective of the session.
  2. Problem statement and business drivers - Capture the aggregate IT/business issue, challenge, or problem in a concise problem statement and tie it to its associated business drivers. Articulate what is driving the mission-critical need for an immediate solution (e.g. save costs, increase profits, drive sales, reduce budget/expenditure, foster company growth, better asset utilization, etc.)
  3. Scope and success criteria - Identify and describe all the components of the problem and its boundaries and what success looks like.
  4. Business, functional and technical requirements - Define the capabilities and conditions that must be met or held by a system or service in order to satisfy the enterprise goals and objectives.
  5. Guiding principles and design objectives - Describe the characteristics of the solution, the objectives that a viable solution must meet, and any compliance, statutory or regulatory guidelines.
  6. Business and technical constraints - Identify the necessary tools, skills, resources, and other components that are not available to solve the problem. What has not worked in the past? What constrains our ability to solve?
  7. Brainstorming and envisioning of 3 unique solutions - Together, CIO ASAP and client experts come up with 3 alternative solutions that meet all objectives and requirements identified, narrow down to one (the best), and craft the most viable solution.
  8. Current state analysis with cost savings demonstrated - Describe the current state in realistic terms and identify the components of the selected solution that are already available and can be leveraged without additional cost implications.
  9. Gap analysis and opportunity identification - Pinpoint the difference between the current state and the selected viable solution. Identify actions that need to be taken to close the gap: quick hits, strategic plans and tactical steps. Determine opportunity costs and risks if no action is taken.
  10. Business case with approach, prioritization and a phased roadmap - Develop a concrete action plan (with key milestones) that delivers the solution while capitalizing on high-value opportunities. Get a realistic budget! Determine all the dependencies, nail down action items and set the next steps.

Invited?

Confirm your attendance for the complimentary sessions today! Scheduling is on a first-come first-served basis, please. Due to limited time, facilitator scheduling and very high demand, you must respond by the confirm date on your invitation or the next executive in line will take your slot.

Non-transferable: only the invited C-level executive or decision maker may schedule sessions. However, you may invite anyone to your sessions or recommend/nominate another executive or decision maker from your company for consideration by CIO ASAP. As always, thank you for your business!

For invited clients, C-Level executives and Fortune 500 clients: schedule your free workshop now! Email us at executive@cioasap.com or contact us via our Executive and Client Services Hotline at (800) CxO-BIZZ (296-2499) - select option 2 .

 

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