What is a Fractional CTO? When mid-market businesses need one.
A fractional CTO provides senior technology leadership without the cost of a full-time hire. This guide explains what they do, when to use one, and what to look for.
Written by senior practitioners. No vendor agendas. No theory without evidence. If it would not help a CFO, MD, or COO make a better decision, it does not get published.
A fractional CTO provides senior technology leadership without the cost of a full-time hire. This guide explains what they do, when to use one, and what to look for.
Most organisations build a PMO and call it governance. A Transformation Management Office is a different structure - designed for a different type of risk.
A business diagnostic is not a report about problems you already know about. Here is what a well-scoped 14-day independent review actually produces.
Most ERP selections fail before a single vendor is contacted. This guide covers what to do first, how to write requirements vendors cannot game, and how to protect the business case.
A VCP is the operational roadmap that turns an investment thesis into EBITDA. Here is what one contains, how it gets built, and where most fail in delivery.
Most acquisition value is lost in the 100 days after close, not in the deal room. The mistakes are predictable. Here is how to avoid the most common ones.
A fractional COO gives you senior operational leadership without a permanent hire. This guide covers what they do, what they cost, and when it makes sense.
Consumer Duty is not a compliance project - it is an operational change programme. What FCA-regulated businesses need to do operationally to genuinely meet the standard.
AI vendors make ambitious claims. This framework helps leadership teams separate genuine capability from well-packaged noise - before the contract is signed.
A data strategy tells you what data you need, how to trust it, and what decisions it should inform. What good looks like - and why most data strategies fail to deliver.
Most mid-market board packs contain numbers that cannot be fully relied upon. This guide explains why MI fails - and how to fix the root cause, not the symptoms.
Lean Six Sigma works when applied to the right problems by practitioners who have done it before. This guide covers what works, what fails, and how to start.
Most TMS implementations go wrong before the contract is signed. This guide covers Mandata, Paragon, Microlise - and the selection process that protects you.
RSH consumer standards inspections are now routine. This guide explains what inspectors look for, where associations are most exposed, and how to prepare.
Practical insight for mid-market leaders. No vendor content, no marketing fluff. Published when there is something worth saying.