Strategic IT Leadership, Fractional Commitment 

Gain the expert guidance and tailored solutions of an experienced chief information officer (CIO) without the cost of a full-time executive. Our Fractional CIOs provide the strategic insight, planning and leadership your business needs to align technology with your goals, strengthen cybersecurity and prepare for the future.

Executive-Level Leadership to Guide Your Business

Every client receives a dedicated Fractional CIO – a strategic IT partner who bridges the gap between business objectives and technology implementation, ensuring that every aspect of your IT operations aligns seamlessly with your overall business goals. Your CIO partners with your leadership team to understand your needs, assess your IT landscape and implement strategies that drive measurable results in efficiency, scalability and security.

Unlike other providers, our Fractional CIOs aren’t an à la carte service; they’re an integral part of our comprehensive IT management services, guaranteeing you always have access to the strategic leadership and tailored guidance needed to propel your business forward. Your CIO provides the vision, planning and leadership, all without the cost and commitment of a full-time executive.

Is This You?

Not sure if you need a Fractional CIO? If you’re a CEO, president or business leader, you might recognize some of these pain points. They’re the warning signs that your organization has outgrown traditional IT support and needs strategic leadership. If even a few of these resonate, a Fractional CIO could be the missing link between where your IT is today — and where your business wants to go tomorrow.

  • Lack of Strategic IT Direction
  • Heightened Cybersecurity and Compliance Risk
  • Inefficient IT Operations and Overspending
  • Unclear ROI on Technology Investments
  • Misalignment Between IT and the Business
  • Stalled Digital Transformation
  • Poor IT Talent Utilization and Retention

The Strategic Insight You've Been Searching For

Our Fractional CIOs use a proven framework built around strategies to help you reduce risk, improve efficiency and cut costs, all while empowering your team with optimized technology investments that genuinely work for your business.

Align IT with Your Business Strategy

Your Fractional CIO works hand in hand with your leadership team to ensure every technology initiative supports your strategic long-term business goals. By collaborating with the head of each department and conducting regular, forward-looking IT meetings, they gain a deep understanding of your business objectives, operational needs and growth plans. This seat at the executive table provides a platform for our CIO to share insights, discuss potential IT improvements and foster a proactive and strategic approach to IT management.

Through structured planning, budgeting and ROI analysis, we align IT investments with your vision, eliminating surprises, optimizing costs and ensuring every dollar spent delivers measurable value. Rather than implementing generic tools, we build a custom multi-year IT roadmap and IT budget that reduces redundancies and manual work, streamlines operations and prioritizes technology investments.

align IT with your business strategy fractional CIO
implement robust cybersecurity best practices fractional cio

Implement Robust Cybersecurity Best Practices 

Cybersecurity is not optional for modern businesses – it’s essential. Our Fractional CIOs proactively assess your security posture and embed ongoing strategies into every layer of your organization to protect it from evolving cyber threats and vulnerabilities. From compliance management to employee education, we build a culture of security across your entire company by implementing and aligning you to over 500 industry best practices.

Whether you’re looking to protect your sensitive data, obtain a lower cost on cyber insurance or attain industry-specific regulatory compliance, our cybersecurity strategy ensures you stay on the right track. Our Fractional CIOs will perform NIST audits and conduct thorough risk assessments, as well as help create disaster recovery, incident response and business continuity plans. Tabletop exercises and state-of-the-security meetings guarantee your staff can effectively handle security incidents and build a resilient defense against evolving dangers.

Optimize Data Flow Across Systems 

Your data should empower decisions, not slow them down. Our Fractional CIOs map, connect and streamline how data flows between departments and systems to eliminate bottlenecks, reduce duplication and improve collaboration. The result? Clean, connected and actionable data that drives faster, smarter decisions and streamlines operations.

We analyze your existing data infrastructure to understand where and how data flows through your company. This helps identify any inefficiencies and create user-friendly structures that ensure the data is connected and properly retained, improving data integrity, accessibility and speed. By identifying where data reporting meets business needs, we can develop opportunities for further visualization to make the data more actionable in driving business growth and productivity.

optimize data flow across systems fractional cio
ensure applications support needs and scalability fractional CIO

Ensure Applications Support Needs and Scalability

Outdated or redundant business applications waste resources and slow progress. Your Fractional CIO evaluates and optimizes your existing software ecosystem to ensure applications work together seamlessly. By identifying redundancies and unlocking new efficiencies, your CIO helps reduce costs, improve workflows and position your organization to scale with confidence.

Our Fractional CIOs strategize how to leverage business applications to automate processes and enhance productivity, ensuring your technology stack is a powerful engine for growth. We work with each department to improve the effectiveness of existing applications, and we provide training to maximize technology use.

Develop a Forward-Thinking AI Strategy 

AI is rapidly changing how we work – but it must be approached strategically. Our Fractional CIOs help you harness AI safely and effectively, identifying practical use cases that enhance productivity and efficiency. We assess the current state of AI in your company and explore strategic opportunities to leverage it further, because let’s face it – more employees are using it than you think.

We help you create tailored AI policies and deploy practical AI tools that automate tasks, improve decision-making and drive productivity without compromising data security. By ensuring your AI initiatives are secure, ethical and business-aligned, you can identify where and how they can deliver tangible value to your organization.

develop a forward-thinking AI strategy fractional CIO

Three Strategic Outcomes Our Fractional CIOs Live By

Every strategy our Fractional CIOs implement works to achieve three defining outcomes: reduce risk, increase efficiency and cut costs. With a strategic focus on aligning technology with business goals, our CIOs drive meaningful improvements to your business.

number1


Reduce Risk


Your Fractional CIO implements a proactive risk management strategy, identifying potential vulnerabilities and integrating advanced cybersecurity protocols, reducing the likelihood of breaches and protecting sensitive data.

number2


Increase Efficiency


By optimizing technology infrastructure and ensuring systems are aligned with business objectives, your Fractional CIO streamlines operations and improves productivity across departments, making sure every tech dollar spent boosts performance and growth.

number3


Cut Costs


With a sharp eye on resource allocation and ROI, your Fractional CIO guides you in consolidating tools, eliminating redundancies and negotiating vendor contracts to reduce unnecessary spending, directly impacting the bottom line.

Gain a Strategic Partnership with a Fractional CIO

Over 20 years ago, we set out to develop professional IT solutions that help clients overcome roadblocks and accomplish their business objectives more efficiently. Now, Thriveon is committed to helping all our clients harness the power of technology to fuel their long-term organizational growth.

When you partner with Thriveon, you gain more than an IT provider – you receive a strategic ally who understands your business from the inside out and leads your technology toward long-term success.

Our Fractional CIOs bring decades of executive experience, proactive guidance and forward-thinking leadership to help you leverage technology to achieve your business objectives. We help you transform IT from a cost center into a competitive advantage, one that drives growth, strengthens security and builds long-term success.

SCHEDULE CONSULTATION

 Since partnering with Thriveon, we’ve experienced a significant improvement in our IT operations. Their team’s expertise, responsiveness and professionalism have helped us overcome complex challenges and optimize our IT environment for better performance and reliability. We highly recommend Thriveon to any business seeking to enhance their IT infrastructure and capabilities.
Angel C. Mason Director of Resources, Special Operations Warrior Foundation

A Proven Strategy to Turn Information Technology into a Significant Business Driver

A proactive IT strategy is built around the real-world needs of your business. It’s designed to solve pressing problems — for good — and unlock new efficiencies you’ll clearly see on your balance sheet.

Shape 1 (1)

Managed IT
Services

24/7 management and support that proactively helps your business do more with less and eliminates issues before they start.

About Thriveon's Managed IT

cyber icon

Cybersecurity
Compliance

Take the confusion out of compliance, with a clear plan to protect your business with established regulatory frameworks.

About Thriveon's Cybersecurity
Icon-Assessing@2x

Microsoft Teams

Modernize your workforce with dynamic collaboration across teams. Leverage powerful apps to accelerate productivity and efficiency.

About Microsoft Teams