How to Get the Best Offshore Results
In his 2005 Book, The World Is Flat, Thomas Friedman sums it up pretty well. “There is just a job, and in more cases than ever before it will go to [...]
Before the (Banker) Bake-Off, Cultivate a Great Chef or Two
They were immortalized in literature by Tom Wolfe as “Masters of the Universe” in Bonfire of the Vanities. Michael Lewis described them as “…a breed apart, a member of a [...]
Are you leveraging fractional C-level leadership? Maybe you should
Does Fractional Leadership work?Fractional leadership is the practice of leveraging external experienced C-level executives to fill leadership gaps in your business in a part time capacity. The fractional executive works [...]
List Partners-Winmo Case Study
List Partners-Winmo THE SITUATION Need for multi-level finance/accounting leadership and expertise but List Partners’ ownership did not foresee the workload to support the cost [...]
ProRata Case Study
ProRata THE CHALLENGE Need for expert finance and accounting leadership and management. Need for experienced CFO-level guidance and expertise to help inform and shape the relevant buildout [...]
4th Source Case Study
4th Source THE CHALLENGE 4th Source is a nearshore IT services business that offers its clients same time zone communication, cultural alignment and access to highly qualified [...]
Secretariat International
Secretariat International THE SITUATION Rebuild Secretariat International accounting system after major data loss, transition from cash to accrual accounting; [...]
Sovereign Systems Case Study
Sovereign Systems THE CHALLENGE Sovereign Systems helps transform legacy data center technologies and applications into ultra-efficient, cloud-based platforms. They needed multi-level finance/accounting leadership and expertise with the [...]
Aptitude Health Case Study
Aptitude Health THE CHALLENGE Full service support, including Financial, Technology and Strategy. THE SITUATION Aptitude Health experienced CTO vacancy with significant delivery challenges. [...]
Deluxe Case Study
Deluxe THE CHALLENGE Deluxe had a three-pronged vision for accelerating revenue growth from recent acquisitions: streamline the sales and client relationship model, cross-sell new software and services [...]
Alliance Bus Group Case Study
Alliance Bus Group THE CHALLENGE Create a Sales 2.0 Organization THE SITUATION Alliance Bus Group needed to transform its 50 person sales organization [...]
Larson Juhl Case Study
Larson Juhl THE CHALLENGE Transform Sales and Marketing to meet strategic objectives. THE SITUATION The company’s sales organization was misaligned with its customer [...]
Zverse Case Study
Zverse Zverse 3D printing gives businesses the ability to offer professional 3D modeling & high-quality 3D print services. CHALLENGE • Stagnating, fragmented, opportunistic [...]
Catabasis Pharmaceuticals
Catabasis Pharmaceuticals THE CHALLENGE Building and financing a drug discovery platform company. THE SITUATION Within two months of creating Catabasis Pharmaceuticals, the company's two [...]
CEO vs CTO: Fixing a Broken Marriage
CEO vs CTO – Fixing a Broken Marriage Many times IT dysfunction in a company comes down to the inability of the CEO and the CTO (or CIO) to effectively communicate. [...]
Acquisition Integration: Systems and Technology
Part Three: Systems and Technology Companies seek to accelerate revenue growth or enter new markets through mergers and acquisitions. They spend a lot of energy and resources identifying the right [...]
What is the right cloud spend?
I was recently asked by a client – What is the right spend on cloud for my organization? The client was asking about both cloud software (SaaS – Software as [...]
The Art of Being Scrappy
People often equate the word “scrappy” with a startup or a lean organization. Larger organizations, on the other hand, are labeled as bureaucratic, slow and process-oriented. There’s rarely an association [...]
All we need is a million dollars, and we will be unstoppable
All we need is a million dollars, and we will be unstoppable! (A cautionary tale) Keith Heffron is a TechCXO Partner and an innovative financial leader, business owner and [...]
Business Continuity Plans
Here's a rhetorical question... When is the best time to prepare for a hurricane or tropical storm? (BEFORE it strikes). If you weren't dealing with the busy hurricane season directly, [...]
Disruptive by Design
Why is Dr. Clayton Christensen’s Disruptive Innovation Theory Important for Your Business? Disruption Innovation Theory is about growth and creation of shareholder value. It generates viral growth, often 20 times [...]
Open APIs light a FHIR under interoperability
With a certification deadline looming, EHR vendors and healthcare providers should look to 3rd-party applications that meet the promise of secure and effective data-sharing By the end of April, only [...]
Scale Up – Optimizing for Growth
Founders flounder, as the saying goes, and scaling up is much harder than starting up. At TechCXO, we've worked with hundreds of startups and see ample evidence to support these [...]
Outgrown Your Accounting System?
New cloud-based accounting systems, such as NetSuite, offer much more functionality, flexibility, and interactivity than traditional accounting systems. Based on their extensive experience as CFOs, TechCXO’s Finance partners can review [...]