CIO, CTO Executive IT Outsourcing Part Time; Strategic... -
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Published on: 4/22/2006
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When Rick Bunker came on board as chief technology officer at Internet Capital Group, a startup venture-capital firm in Wayne, Pa., he was faced with creating an IT department, strategy, and implementation plan.Not wanting to spend an exorbitant amount of money to hire an entire IT team while searching for a full-time CIO, Bunker chose Breakaway's CIO Advisory Service.
Missing ElementsBunker says he also talked to two of the Big Five consulting firms, as well as to some regional consulting firms, but couldn't find what he needed."These firms were great at saying they could create a database or make an application and integrate it, but they didn't give me the in-depth strategy, planning, and design that I needed," he says.
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"Breakaway was able to establish an IT initiative that incorporated everything from LAN, WAN, E-mail, voice mail, databases, financial, recruiting, and human-resource applications for our business," says Bunker.The team started working with Bunker in May and plans to have Internet Capital's IT infrastructure in place by year's end.Afterward, Bunker says he'll use Breakaway's CIO service as well as its application development and outsourcing offerings to create more applications and a database of the company's investments.Bunker has since hired a director of IT to work closely with Natinson.