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Virtual CTO & Consulting
Strategy & Architecture consultancy for Retailers looking to harness advancements in technology.
YALLO Retail, virtually part of your team
As a rapid growth Retailer, your business goals and objectives don’t always match your budgets or in-house resources. YALLO Retail offers a niche service — providing as needed and on-demand senior technology consultancy — providing direction to your in-house teams or director-managed technology functions and getting the most out of your IT budgets and possible software vendor relationships.
Consider YALLO your virtual technology department, providing you agile senior strategic consultancy that’s completely flexible and tailored to your needs. The bonus? You get strategic technology insights without having to hire a tech director plus the multi-disciplined delivery team to make it a reality.
YALLO's RetailTech consulting services, your solution for:
 | Retained virtual CTO consultancy |
 | Technology strategy development |
 | Enterprise Architecture blueprinting |
 | Vendor/platform selection |
 | Implementation & change management |
 | In-house training & workshops |
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Simple yet powerful offering for YALLO's Retail clients to benefit from
Not every small business has the budget or ability to support a senior-level technology leader or in-house team — but they all have the need!
A virtual CTO works with companies to uncover business goals, develop technology strategy and architectures, execute digital transformations and measure results — at a fraction of the cost of a full-time permanent employee. This helps you by reducing your IT delivery cost, saving you time, resources, headaches and money.
Why hire a virtual CTO and consulting team?
Oftentimes in-house teams can have an insular perspective. A virtual CTO can provide an external, unbiased perspective, plus exposure to other businesses, industries and best practices. This outside view gives you a competitive advantage that in-house practitioners just aren’t positioned to deliver.
Cost efficiency
A qualified technology director salary will cost you upwards of £100,000. Add on bonus, perks, national insurance and operational costs and you'll double that. Outsourcing to a virtual CTO dramatically cuts your costs, giving you strategic consultancy support as and when you need it.
Strategic focus
The traditional technology director is pulled into hiring, team management, departmental programs, stakeholder management — and company politics. This prevents them from focusing on their own projects — oftentimes those with the greatest return. A virtual CTO can focus on the most critical projects and get them done.
New perspectives
Oftentimes in-house teams can have an insular perspective. A virtual CTO can provide an external, unbiased perspective, plus exposure to other businesses, industries and best practices. This outside view gives you a competitive advantage that in-house practitioners just aren’t positioned to deliver.
Multi-expertise
Small technology teams often lack specialist expertise across the digital technology spectrum. Meanwhile, rising complexity is making it hard to keep pace across applications, analytics, cloud, engineering and security — to name a few. A virtual CTO can offer direction, leveraging a network of service providers with specific expertise.
Consistency
To be effective, technology requires consistency through an integrated and ongoing suite of initiatives. Yet this can be challenging for small businesses, resulting in sporadic and poor project delivery. A virtual CTO provides technology consultancy to ensure your projects are consistent, enabling you to achieve the results you want.
Talent access
Traditional hiring is geographically constrained, and technology talent typically concentrated in the capital. Hiring a virtual CTO gives you access to senior-level talent wherever you’re located — and can still be accessed for in-person meetings or workshops as needed.
No matter your size, every company needs strategy. We'll help define yours.
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