Interim CIO – My Approach

⭐ The 30 / 60 / 90‑Day Dynamic — Operational and Human

 

30 Days — See Clearly (and calm the system)

I begin by listening. Not only to facts, but to tensions, fears, unspoken issues, and weak signals. I clarify issues, dependencies, risks. I deliver a shared, factual diagnosis that calms, aligns, and restores visibility.

60 Days — Structure and Mobilize

I reintroduce rhythm, governance, and priorities. I reconnect teams, business stakeholders, and partners. I rebuild trust by offering a stable, respectful, transparent environment. Decisions become possible again.

90 Days — Stabilize and Transfer

I anchor practices, secure operations, and strengthen teams. I prepare the next phase: a more autonomous, confident, and aligned organization. I leave when everything works without me — that is my signature.

 

⭐ A Unique Alignment Method: Strategic, Collective, Continuous

 

My method is based on a simple principle: transformation only lasts when it is understood, shared, and embodied.

1 — Executive Committee: vision, priorities, constraints

I begin with a direct exchange with the Executive Committee. Objective: understand strategy, ambitions, limits, risks. From this, I build a structured, realistic, aligned action plan.

2 — IT Teams: operational enrichment

I present the plan to IT teams. We challenge it, refine it, enrich it. We integrate operational reality, dependencies, weak signals. This is a moment of truth.

3 — Business Units: transversal alignment

Before returning to the Executive Committee, I present the plan to business units. We clarify impacts, remove misunderstandings, and build collective ownership. This creates a truly shared vision.

4 — Executive Committee: validation, arbitration, alignment

I return to the Executive Committee with a consolidated, realistic, shared plan. We validate it together. Then we repeat the cycle. Again and again. In a logic of continuous improvement that ensures permanent alignment.

 

⭐ A Structured Approach to Project Portfolio Management: Clarity, Arbitration, Governance

 

1 — List all projects (including the “forgotten” ones) 🧠AI

I identify all required, expected, ongoing, and latent projects. For each: CAPEX, OPEX, dependencies, risks.

2 — Map key resources 🧠AI

IT, business teams, middle management. With a realistic estimate of their availability.

3 — Allocate, plan, objectify 🧠AI

For each project:

• resource consumption,

• earliest possible start date,

• calendar duration.

4 — Build an Executive Gantt for the leadership team 🧠AI

A simple, visual, indisputable tool. It immediately shows:

• whether it fits the budget,

• whether it fits resource capacity,

• where bottlenecks are,

• which decisions are needed.

5 — Adjust ambitions or reinforce resources 🧠AI

This tool enables:

• postponing,

• cancelling,

• reinforcing,

• recruiting,

• outsourcing,

• adapting the organization.

6 — Communicate widely to create understanding, alignment, and engagement 🧠AI

• At each portfolio review, I share an adapted version of the Gantt with teams, managers, and business units. Objectives:

• explain priorities,

• clarify the timeline,

• show where each project stands,

• make trade‑offs explicit,

• avoid frustration caused by lack of visibility,

• build shared understanding of constraints,

• strengthen trust in governance.

This transparency turns planning into an alignment tool, governance into a pedagogical tool, and strategy into a collective movement.

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⭐ The Human Dimension: Absorb, Stabilize, Reassure

Transformation is not only about processes. It is fundamentally human.

In the early phases, teams experience:

• uncertainty,

• fatigue,

• fear,

• loss of reference points.

My role is also to be:

• a stabilizing presence,

• an emotional anchor,

• a trusted third party,

• a reassuring framework,

• a mediator,

• an accelerator of collective maturity.

This human dimension is what allows teams to move forward again.

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⭐ What Executives Appreciate

• My ability to absorb complexity without amplifying it.

• My way of securing teams without infantilizing them.

• My talent for restoring trust between IT, business, and partners.

• My stable, reassuring, structured presence.

• My ability to reveal and elevate internal talent.

• My capacity to turn tension into movement.

• My unique 🧠AI based Tools, based on 30 years of executive expérience

 

⭐ Available for interim, stabilization, or transformation missions

In France, Europe, or remotely. Always with the same intention: to leave the organization stronger than I found it.