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Focusing on business needs to build an aligned technology strategy

Today’s CIOs are faced with proactively addressing business and technology challenges, shaping strategic agendas that foster innovation and drive organizational growth. CGI's experts leverage technology to offer leaders the business and technical expertise needed to advance and transform their operations, enabling agile workforce development, innovative process improvement and secure data sharing and analysis.

Our CIO advisory services empower clients to take a strategic approach to implementing and achieving the desired benefits of major changes, including mergers, acquisitions, entry into new markets and outsourcing. We help clients take a holistic view to successfully adapt their business to better anticipate and cope with continuous changes. Our approach allows CIOs to manage IT more successfully as a business and enables the organization to outperform its peers with the right information and technology.

CIO advisory services

  • Digital and IT strategy: providing strategic planning advisory services, expertise and guidance
  • IT Governance and Risk Management: Helping CIOs establish robust governance frameworks
  • IT Organization Design and Operating Model: Assisting CIOs in assessing and improving IT performance
  • Intelligent Automation and AI Program: Advising on journey maps, organizational readiness assessment, agile delivery, O&M and innovation
  • Vendor Management and Outsourcing: Providing guidance on vendor selection, negotiation, and contract management
  • IT cost optimization: Helping CIOs optimize IT costs without compromising service quality
  • Technology evaluation and selection: Evaluating emerging technologies and selecting appropriate solutions for specific business needs
  • Data modernization: Providing upgrades and new business-enabling technologies, including cloud readiness assessment
  • Cloud assessment and migration: Facilitating an inclusive process to formulate and update the client’s living cloud strategy document
  • Legacy systems modernization: Recommending modernization strategies and roadmaps

Optimize investments to activate transformation and achieve long-term sustainable growth

Our advisory services help CIOs optimize their technology and security investments and activate a transformation path that leads to business results. Our services help:

  • Optimize IT investments: Enable your organization to leverage technology for profitability, competitive advantage, and executing business strategy by aligning your IT investments with business goals to maximize returns.
  • Transform IT capabilities: Advance your organization's IT capabilities and effectively manage resources to successfully deliver programs and services that improve business performance.
  • Deliver IT with confidence: Deliver capabilities with the right cost, performance, and risk balance. Our services enable effective governance, risk reduction, and organizational efficiency.
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Learn more about our CIO Advisory services

Ready to begin your journey toward digital leadership? Connect with an expert to build an aligned technology strategy that ensures competitive business results and long-term sustainable growth.