IT Leadership Service

Charity IT Leadership Service from Smartdesc

Many organisations approach us because they lack the in-house expertise or experience of an IT leader. Some have no ICT Strategy whatsoever, others may lack confidence that IT is heading in the right direction or representing value for money; most find it difficult to manage in-house IT staff who have very specialist skills.

Smartdesc’s Charity IT Leadership service delivers a bespoke blend of strategic and technical management to your team to solve these problems at a fraction of the cost and overhead of recruiting in-house.

Our Virtual IT Directors and IT Managers typically work with you on a part-time basis, acting as in-house, impartial and trusted advisors; driving technology forward through deep collaboration with all levels of your business and:

Our Virtual IT Directors take ultimate accountability for the IT function at the organisations they represent and provide your charity or non profits business with the IT Leadership it needs.  They are happy and able to report to Exec level.

Our IT Managers implement and track KPIs using our IT Health Scorecard framework, which we have developed over 10 years of working in this model to maximise your return on investment and ensuring IT is kept in a healthy state, backed up with Management Information to track risks and priorities in non-technical language.

The service is flexible by design; typically the first few months may need more time to set up or improve processes or systems, then it can scale back to a lower number of days to ensure the service is always at the right level and cost.