Your Fractional Chief Technology Officer / CTO On Demand
As businesses grow, technology decisions become more complex, costly, and critical to performance. What was once a set of tools becomes a source of cost, risk, and opportunity.
Without senior leadership, these decisions are often fragmented, reactive, or misaligned to business priorities. Traditionally, this level of oversight has only been accessible through a full-time CTO, something many growing businesses don’t yet need, or can’t justify.
Our Fractional CTO & Technology Leadership services makes that capability accessible, providing ongoing support across strategy, investment, delivery, and risk, ensuring technology enables growth rather than constrains it.
We work directly with leadership teams to bring structure to decision-making, oversight to execution, and focus to where value is created. Your business receives a dedicated CTO, which has the backing of the wider Orange Lampshade team of technology, business and corporate services professionals.
Engagement Options
Orange Lampshade operates as an extension of your team, providing embedded technology leadership aligned to your business.
Our support is flexible, adapting to your priorities, stage of growth, and level of involvement required.
From addressing immediate challenges, to improving performance and enabling growth, we provide the level of leadership needed at each stage.
Targeted
Targeted advisory to solve immediate problems and unblock decisions
For businesses that need experienced input on key decisions, without ongoing embedded involvement. Provides access to strategic guidance across investment, vendors, and planning.
On-demand advisory and decision support
Input into key technology and investment decisions
Guidance across cost, risk, and vendor management
Optimise
Dedicated support across priorities, initiatives, and decision-making
For businesses managing increasing complexity and growing beyond reactivity, where regular involvement is required to guide direction, prioritisation, and delivery.
Regular engagement with leadership and teams
Ongoing support across initiatives and priorities
Oversight of delivery, vendors, and investment decisions
Alignment of technology to business priorities
Growth
Embedded technology leadership driving business performance and opportunity
For businesses requiring consistent senior leadership across technology, delivery, and performance. Acts as an extension of your leadership team, supporting both direction and execution.
Embedded within leadership discussions and decision-making
End-to-end oversight across technology landscape
Proactive identification of risks, issues, and opportunities
Full support across cost, delivery, and performance