Virtual IT Director

The Virtual IT Director

Your Traditional IT Director

In most enterprise businesses, a traditional IT Directors role is to implement and govern an IT products and solution strategy for your business that takes into account all the data / people / access requirements that your business has for successful day to day operations. In a best-case scenario this is then implemented and managed by a team of engineers reporting into the IT Director / Manager. However, in the family office setup, it is often not possible to hire an entire team of IT Staff with such diverse skills, even though you need the experience and analysis of an IT Director skillset but coupled with the hands-on ability of an IT Manager or a Senior support engineer.

At Montana Consulting we understand the needs of a family office and how they can be met by leveraging a virtualised IT Director function, whereby you can have all your design and governance needs met, along with your day-to-day engineering needs.

At Montana Consulting, we believe that the IT function should be and can be more then people "fixing" computers, the IT function should not be a reactive entity, it should be a proactive enabler of business with the ability to react at lightning speed, if and when needed.

On-Premise Fulltime IT Director

There are many circumstances where an on premise, directly employed IT Director or IT Manager is the better approach to managing your technology needs within the family office structure. In these scenarios we can work with your IT Director to help them achieve the goals they have for your family office and make relevant suggestions where needed. We can act as a true strategic advisor providing support where and when needed. However, some situations require a more proactive or flexible approach, and that is where the Virtual IT Director services comes into play.

Virtual IT Director Service

The Montana Consulting Virtual IT Director service aims to provide that complete flexible solution. The virtual IT Director is a best of both worlds, offsite / onsite solution. As a Montana Consulting customer, you have access to one of our specialists that will be allocated to your business. They will work with you at the level you want, so it can be a collaborative working arrangement with your household manager or concierge team, or it can be a totally hands-free solution. In a hands-free solution, we design, implement and handover or operate the systems as you wish. This solution is perfect to help control costs, maximise return on technology investment in the initial setup stages of family offices. In many instances it’s a perfect ongoing solution for your family office. You no longer have to worry about upskilling inhouse IT Directors to understand new technology, or pay for courses, training etc, you rely on us to bring the expertise to the table in one convenient packaged solution.

Instead of dedicating resources to managing another employee, holiday cover, sick cover, knowledge transfer when employees leave etc, you can concentrate on the most important part of the family office function, to grow the wealth of the UHNWI. In the world of technology, nothing is ever fully virtualised, sometimes a real pair of hands, or a bum on a seat in an important meeting is just needed, so we can be onsite physically when required.