About Us

OpteCTO work as an extension of your business

Who we are?

OpteCTO founder Mike Cunningham spent over 20 years as a driving force in IT across the Construction, Real Estate and Technology Innovation sectors. In this time he has guided numerous organisations through the evolution of technology for business and the more recent drive to a ‘Cloud First Approach’. He understands the challenges that this can bring but also the increased opportunities that are available to improve business efficiency, embrace innovation and transform business culture whilst remaining secure.

After researching how technology was being managed in the SME space, it became very clear that nearly all businesses were facing the same challenges with either their technology products or the IT services teams supporting them. These issues included

  • Ever increasing IT costs without a corresponding increase in the value being delivered
  • Underperforming IT support without clear SLA’s on business impacting issues
  • Gaps in what is and isn’t supported by the IT service team creating ownership issues during critical events
  • Unable to get the most of the existing IT products
  • Service providers not understanding the business well enough to Identify the right products to grow with your business
  • No clear guidance on Cyber Security, where the business risks exist and how they can be managed
  • Business still tied to manual tasks that are effecting efficiencies and preventing more modern working practices
  • Management are spending an Increasing amount of time discussing IT rather than focusing on running the business

Mike identified an opportunity to transform the face of technology management for SME’s by providing a CTO as a Service (CTOaaS) offering that incorporates the management of IT performance, cyber security, digital transformation and modern working as an extension of Your Business with Your Voice.
Working Together to empower your business to own the IT conversation and grow by maximising the value of the right technology aligned to your wider goals’.

An Extension of YOUR BUSINESS

To maximise the value of technology for any business it is first essential to not only understand how a business functions but also where that business is striving to be and how the industry they work in is evolving. In large corporates, there are teams dedicated to these tasks and supporting change committees that drive these conversations forward but this is not viable for most SME’s.

OpteCTO work as an extension of your business to enable a structured approach to managing current products and services and identify the opportunities for improvements that enable your business to evolve with technology

Whether your business functions with an internal in-house IT team or outsource to an IT managed service provider, OpteCTO are able to build a relationship that maximises the IT services being delivered with the additional value of IT director level advisory and guidance with Your Business Voice. We will identify where performance needs to improve and work with you and the IT services team to set targets and monitor progress.

OpteCTO understand the cyber risk that is now very real to all organisations and we ensure that your maturity in this space is reviewed and improved to significantly reduce the risk. We also understand that if the biggest companies in the world who spend millions on cyber security prevention are still experiencing attacks then we need to develop a solid backup strategy and business recovery plan to enable your business to continue with minimal impact.

We will understand the technologies that are specific to your industry and the internal business functions and work with you to identify and implement the right products to provide competitive advantage, improve efficiencies and reduce risk

We are now in a business world where technology has enabled collaboration that can bring teams together and inspire both creativity and personal staff development. OpteCTO will help you embrace the capabilities that are relevant to enabling a modern business culture that empowers your staff to develop and inevitably produce more