Consulting
CogniVista consultants have experience in a wide variety of
industries and technologies.
We understand business operations and
the needs and challenges of the entrepreneur.
By its nature, consulting is always custom tailored to your needs, however, below
we have listed some of the most frequent roles that our consultant's play in our
client's organization.
Rent a CTO
Your organization may not be ready for a full-time Chief Technology Officer (CTO),
but you will always need to make strategic technology decisions. If you, the business
leader, is not technical and your technical staff doesn't understand business, you
may not be managing risk effectively. Contact us
and we can fill the critical role of CTO on a temporary or part-time basis.
Technical Advisory Board
You may have an advisory board already in place for legal, accounting, and/or marketing
purposes even if it is very informal. You bring together these parties during strategically
significant events in your organization such as a sale of asset, a new product line,
or a corporate restructuring. You may also bring these parties together on a period
basis (monthly or quarterly) to review your progress and help keep you on track
with your strategic direction.
The concept of a Technical Advisory Board is very similar. When your organization
is at a strategically significant crossroads, a collection of technology experts
who also understand business can be a very valuable asset. You may also want the
members of the Technical Advisory Board, to periodically review the progress of
your efforts and provide the point of view of years of experience to your IT staff
and business leaders. We can help you bring together
We have strategic relationships with other technology service providers and can
customize a technology advisory board to meet your business and technology needs.
Mentoring
We provide mentoring to other software developers. You may find this necessary when
you have young members on your development team. We assume they are already strong
in their specific technical areas, otherwise you wouldn't have hired them. But there
is nothing like talking to someone who has "been there, done that". They may require
assistance in solving a particularly nasty technical or design problem. Or maybe,
they need help in understanding how to better manage risk or handle competing requirements.
We provide this service a lot and do it in a non-threatening way that sets up the
IT staff for future success.
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