Fractional

IT Services


Bring in the right experts at the right time

Supporting start-ups and tech companies

with fractional resources


Our Fractional Digital Leadership service offers immediate access to a pool of accomplished leaders, including CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, and more; ensuring you receive the precise knowledge and expertise required for your unique digital challenges.


By engaging our Digital Leaders, you will receive expert advice, innovation, and strategies to accelerate growth only accessible from seasoned practitioners with a wealth of hands-on experience.


Let us empower your projects with the leadership excellence they deserve.


What are your ongoing 

Digital Leadership Challenges?


Talent Retention

A lack of clear digital leadership leads to employee dissatisfaction, which has a knock-on effect to all aspects of an organisation, particularly productivity and growth.

Operational Efficiency

Digital strategies can often be the solution to issues of cost reduction and revenue increase; having the expertise to implement them is thus integral to balancing costs.

Customer-Centric Innovation

Digitising your operations is the fastest way to promoting innovation, particularly for the purposes of market expansion and customer satisfaction.

Cultural Transformation

In a technological landscape that is constantly introducing new challenges such as AI, adapting to change is crucial for your organisation.


How we can help

There is a number of ways in which digitising your operations can improve productivity, efficiency, and scale, if implemented effectively

Strategic Planning

Develop and articulate a clear vision for how your digital transformation lifecycle will support long-term strategic goals. Our digital leaders will work closely with your IT teams to create a roadmap that gains board buy-in and ensure it is communicated effectively to all stakeholders.

Organisation & Governance

Enable a Target Operating Model (TOM) and establish a programme structure and charter to guide its implementation. Our digital leaders will define a governance structure and relevant control bodies while creating an effective Project Management Office (PMO) discipline. Additionally, our service identifies key performance indicators (KPIs) and reports for transparency, ensuring alignment with your risk and compliance teams.

Cost Reduction & Investment Strategies

Our service operates on a business case-driven investments prioritisation model, helping you to assess potential investments through a rigorous framework. Our fractional leaders will also develop your teams to allocate resources to projects that yield the highest returns and drive sustainable growth.

Innovation & Performance

Many organisations fail to convert strategy into successful execution. This might be due to a lack of in-house technical expertise and/or weak frameworks and processes. This can be resolved through seasoned technology leaders, who will implement a robust innovation pipeline and an in-house PMO that excels throughout the digital transformation lifecycle.

Intelligent Automation

Defining an Intelligent Automation roadmap and key investment areas aligned with Business and Finance is integral for developing benefits tracking tools to ensure expected outcomes, designing and developing prototypes to validate Intelligent Automation solutions, and building an Intelligent Automation Competency Centre.

Cyber Security

Our Cyber Security leaders ensure robust digital practices to protect the privacy of your data and defend against cyber criminals and breaches. This includes identifying and mitigating risks through data analysis and predictive modelling.

Data Management & Advanced Analytics

Our CIO and CISO leaders ensure robust data practices for quality, maintenance, and management; developing data intelligence and analytics for business insights. Our service also includes a securely integrated data platform and data transformation initiatives to foster a data-driven culture.

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A full range of Digital Leadership Services


Fractional Chief Information Officer

Our Fractional CIO provides access to top-tier technology leadership and strategic guidance, without the commitment and cost of hiring a full-time CIO

Fractional Chief Digital Officer

Use a Fractional CDO to gain access to best-in-industry leadership, guidance, and digital solutions, without the commitment and cost of hiring a full-time CDO

Fractional Chief Transformation Officer

Provides access to a wealth of hands-on transformation strategies and innovative solutions, without the commitment and cost of a full-time CTO

Fractional Chief Technology Officer

A Fractional CTO brings strategic insights and solutions to drive technological advancement, optimise operations, and foster innovation

Fractional Chief Data Officer

Addresses critical technology and innovation challenges, ensuring that companies with limited in-house resources can still leverage data analytics, strategy, and innovation when they need it

Fractional Chief AI Officer

Provides adaptability and resilience to a rapidly evolving part of the market: AI, including knowledge on how to make the most of its multitude of uses

Fractional Chief Information Security Officer

An on demand model for cyber security leadership, enhancing your organisation's cyber resilience, strategy, and incident recovery. Get access to expert guidance and ensure you build in security at every level using a Secure by Design methodology.

Simon Crimp
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Our Fractional IT Services are led by Simon Crimp

Managing Partner - Digital Transformation

Simon is a senior IT Leader with over 25 years of experience leading large technology departments within FinOps, Financial Services, and Digital businesses. Renowned for delivering large scale technology transformation programs, Simon specialises in technology modernisation and infrastructure change, IT transformation, operating model design, and post-acquisition integrations and divestments.


Throughout his career, Simon has built and led teams in Europe, North America, and APAC, to deliver and run critical high availability and low latency technology platforms. Most recently, Simon has defined and delivered strategy across Cloud adoption, modern engineering practices and ways of working, observability, and developer enablement.

Get in touch with our Consultants today


We are a highly collaborative team of senior-level executive professionals able to adapt to any challenge, however niche & challenging.

+44 (0)1223 750335

info@cambridgemc.com

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Case Studies


Our team has had the privilege of partnering with a diverse array of clients, from burgeoning startups to FTSE 100 companies. Each case study reflects our commitment to delivering tailored solutions that drive real business results.

CASE STUDIES

A little bit about Cambridge MC

Cambridge Management Consulting is a specialist consultancy drawing on an extensive global network of over 200 senior executives in 22 countries.


Our purpose is to help our clients have a better impact on the world.

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