I greatly respect Dave Johnson and his firm, C Squared Solutions, which provides CEO, CFO, and COO fractional services. As a fractional chief information officer, I found his ability to summarize the benefits of engaging with a fractional resource poignant in this LinkedIn post.
Manufacturing staff in the front and back office are overwhelmed. They know their technology is antiquated but they don’t know how technology can play a role in making their business, and personal, lives easier, more efficient and more organized. Our Manufacturing Technology Immersion Experience is a 1 hour demonstration that we present to members across…
This all-star group of manufacturing experts share their favorite Office 365 systems and how it helps them collaborate, communicate and organize all of the business (and personal!) information. Daisys Matthews from Probi – Shares Planner and To-Do tips on what to use when AND how. Jason Scow from Probi – Describes how MS 365 has…
Strong leaders have specific skills and traits that make them great at what they do. They have the ability to manage, encourage and empower. They need to be transparent, show empathy and express gratitude. Defining purpose and vision is critical and they have to be someone that people can trust. On top of all these…
The upshot is that we have worked with 88 companies in 20 years as an outsourced IT Department. We know where to find inefficiencies and as a part-time resource can be used as much or as little as possible. Providing Project Management for Technical Projects like ERP or Microsoft 365 Adoption Setting Up Microsoft Customer…
PQA Certification and Allen CIO have put together the following recommendations relating to CMMC, the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification. Announced on June 13, 2019, The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification is the new approach by the Department of Defense (DoD) to create a unified cybersecurity standard and properly secure their supply chain and the Defense Industrial…
TCO is a technology acronym that stands for Total Cost of Ownership, which ideally should be low. It is a very interesting phrase that is quite difficult to interpret. This is because of how much goes into a TCO calculation. So let’s say you are evaluating two different laptops: Laptop 1 Type:Lenovo ThinkPad T14…
At Allen CIO our initial offering is to help manufacturing companies embrace a new technical philosophy we call “The Manufacturing Pivot.” This Pivot relates to the change that the front office needs to take in order to be competitive and lean on the technology side. Without it, manufacturers will struggle and stumble with adopting critical…
Allen CIO works with private equity companies with manufacturing acquisitions in their portfolio. Our simple yet amazingly effective playbook allows us to take technology to the next level at every one of your acquisitions. The Problem Successful manufacturing companies tend to run super lean, which typically means IT is stretched thin, resulting in untapped opportunities,…
Matthew Pohl, the principal of the ReWild Group, shares how the “7 Stages of Growth” methodology changes business focus based on business size. THIS IS A HUGE GAME CHANGER (see the next paragraph). This unique consulting strategy makes great sense for leaders who want to understand why their style of leadership that worked for them…