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Program 02 · Advise
Executive & Board Advisory.
A standing technology executive at your table, and counsel to the board when the decision is technical.
Some organizations need a chief technology officer's judgment without a chief technology officer's hire: an executive who sits with leadership weekly, reports in plain terms, plans the next week, and is in the room, digitally and in person, when vendors, auditors and the board ask the hard questions. ZTG provides that executive, drawn from the firm's leadership and senior bench, as consulting rather than engineering, so the counsel is never a sales call for the build.
CTO-LEVEL COUNSEL ◆ WEEKLY STAKEHOLDER REPORTING ◆ IN THE ROOM ◆ INDEPENDENT OF THE BUILD
Two forms
Executive consulting, and the board.
How it runs
A rhythm, not a project.
What happened, what it means, what happens next week. Reporting in plain language, the plan written down, decisions logged.
Vendor negotiations, audits, architecture reviews, hiring panels: the executive attends, digitally or in person, and takes the technical position.
Where technology stands against the plan, the risks that moved, and the decisions the board should take, in a form a non-technical director can act on.
A reserved weekly allocation, surge capacity when a crisis demands it, and continuity held by the firm rather than by one individual.
Common questions
Is this a fractional CTO?
It is executive consulting at that level: the judgment, the weekly rhythm and the seat at the table, provided by the firm rather than by one hire. ZTG prefers the plainer description because the arrangement is a consulting agreement with reserved hours, not a title.
Does the advisor push ZTG's own engineering?
No. Advisory engagements are consulting only, and ZTG is vendor-agnostic by principle. If a build is needed, the advisor says what it needs and the organization decides who builds it, which may or may not be ZTG.
How are hours arranged?
A reserved weekly allocation, used or not, with surge capacity for the weeks that demand more, on a term that renews. The specifics are set out in a written agreement; ZTG does not quote figures on the website.
Can the board engage ZTG directly?
Yes. Board and cyber advisory can be engaged directly by the board or an audit committee as an independent read on management's plans, vendors and security posture.
Have a complex problem?
Let's engineer the answer.
The brief takes about a minute: seven quick questions, an instant expert first read, and an engineer replies as soon as possible. No deck, no pitch.