These duties include formulating long term strategic IT goals, planning and tracking the IT budget, analyzing and reworking business processes to make more efficient use of technology, and automation as well as facilitating technology changes. While the vCIO can help you maintain your business IT infrastructure, the best use is to provide more-forward looking services.

For example, a vCIO can work with you to plan out and execute a technology roadmap, or identify opportunities to make use of new technology tools. If your business lacks an internal IT department or has a very limited IT staff, you may want to consider granting wider decision-making authority and technology deployment responsibilities to the vCIO. The main difference between the vCIO function and other technical advisory services is that the vCIO takes a broader view of your organization, focusing on business and IT alignment.

CIOs do not provide frontline IT support and they do not supervise frontline IT support. They are overall responsible for IT service delivery and support to the business. With vCIO your business can get the highest level of IT expertise at a fraction of the cost.