Fractional CTO Services
Board-level technology strategy, governance, and execution oversight that turns IT spending into measurable business outcomes - scaled flexibly to your company's stage and budget.
IT Leadership Coaching
Board Advisory
Virtual CxO
IT P&L Advice
Great IT decisions change the P&L. A fractional CTO brings the leadership to make them consistently—strategy, budgeting, vendor selection, program governance, and board communication. We align initiatives with outcomes (revenue, margin, risk) and structure work in phases with visible checkpoints. You’ll reduce delays, avoid “tool creep,” and turn projects into business results. Engagements are flexible: part‑time CTO, interim CIO/CISO, or targeted board advisory. We can also coach your leaders to build credible budgets and present them effectively. Add a short testimonial here about improved delivery or stakeholder confidence.
Part-time, board-level technology leadership that aligns architecture, roadmap, and spend to strategy. We run governance, optimize vendors, and convert initiatives into measurable P&L outcomes.
Hands-on coaching for CIO/IT leaders to build credible budgets, present to the board, and run a high-trust cadence. Optional 5-session package ($2,500) accelerates skills in 4–6 weeks.
On-demand executive coverage for strategy, security, and program oversight—without full-time overhead. Ideal for transitions, turnarounds, or rapid scale.
Independent, executive-ready guidance: investment reviews, risk posture, vendor/architecture challenge, and clear decision memos. Strengthen governance and stakeholder confidence.
Deep dives to tie IT initiatives to margin, growth, and risk—with keep/kill/consolidate decisions and budget scenarios.
We baseline strategy, spend, delivery capacity, vendor risk, and security posture—then tie each to business levers (revenue, margin, risk). You get success metrics, owners, and a 90-day plan you can act on immediately.
We design the operating model and a Now / Next / Later roadmap with budget scenarios and decision criteria. Tool sprawl is controlled, roles are clear, and trade-offs are framed for fast, defensible decisions.
Weekly delivery reviews, monthly steering with KPI scorecards, and quarterly board updates. We unblock teams, manage risk, and keep vendors honest so initiatives land on time and on budget.
Live dashboards track KPI movement, variance to plan, and savings captured. We coach your leaders on credible budgeting and board communication, and leave a playbook for sustained performance (or a smooth handoff to in-house leadership).
30–60-day PoV pilots that only scale when KPIs are met
President & CEO | Xtiva Finanical Systems
"We never realized that our architecture was killing our GM. We lacked clarity and control over how our technology dollars were being spent, and in determining the appropriate budget for key projects. We've now re-architected our solution, which allowed us to gain visibility, predictability, and optimization across the business, each of which supported the relaunch of our flagship product."
Chief Information Officer | HomeEquity Bank
"They identified inconsistencies in governance, how our technology was being deployed, and excesses in our technology spending. We now have robust governance in place and are well on our way to delivering highly scalable, consistent, and reliable financial services platforms that will enable us to go to market with new and enhanced service offerings."
CEO Engineering Services Firm
"IT is an essential part of our structural engineering firm. But recently, they've been holding us back—we couldn't finish anything! TNG quickly developed a roadmap that prioritized what was most important for us. It enabled productivity while improving security so that we could be confident that we were productive yet protected. They standardized our infrastructure to have fewer points of failure if disaster struck. And finally, they showed us how much IT costs in a way that made sense."
Managing Director, Online Retailer
"We needed a partner who could build budgets, optimize IT spending, and lead us through a multi-year digital transformation. 70% of our IT budget was labour! With TNG, we have it back to 50/50 labour to non-labour. We are on our way to 30/70!
We can now focus on running our business!
We now have service levels and penalties for noncompliance. We have improved security and compliance with industry standards, safeguarding our customers."
CFO, Retail Store Chain
"We had a lot of challenges to overcome. IT was costing 3.5% of revenue, and the company's core applications were aging complex, and difficult to use. There were high volumes of issues in retail locations, and the business was looking for a way to improve things while setting us up for future success
The Narrative Group leveraged their proprietary methodology to identify a roadmap to evergreen their infrastructure, stabilize core applications, reduce store incidents, and charted a path toward IT spending being 1.5% of revenue within 18."
Managing Partner, Law Firm
As a small but growing employment law firm, we were drowning in disconnected systems — case files, billing, and communications were all over the place. We didn’t realize how much time we were losing to inefficient tech until TNG stepped in.
They started by reviewing our cost structure and workflows, then rebuilt our stack with the right cloud and document automation tools, and cut 40% of our software spend in the process.
Now we’re faster, more accurate, and have a clearer picture of our profitability. I no longer feel like IT is a liability — it’s become a strength.
Complex digital transformation projects delivered.
Mid-sized companies, including pharma and life sciences.
Average experience of our senior technology experts.
Satisfaction rate focused on performance and ROI.
Get board-level tech leadership that aligns spend to strategy. We help midsized leaders turn technology investments into measurable business outcomes, reduce vendor risk, and accelerate growth—without the full-time executive cost.
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Growing businesses should hire a fractional CTO when they need strategic leadership and technical expertise but lack budget for a full time executive. This cost effective approach provides specialized knowledge, helps align technology with business objectives, and offers flexible engagement models.
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