Concierge Business Consulting
Disciplined Imagination
Disciplined Execution
Exceptional Outcomes
Disciplined Imagination, Disciplined Execution, isn’t just a cool sounding slogan; it is how we work – innovative, but pragmatic. Yes, it is important to be forward thinking, but it is also important to appropriately manage risk. We strive to find the balance between saying “why not” and “what if.” We understand that we all are accountable, so let’s not shy away from imagining the next big thing, but let’s make sure we do so with discipline; that’s the path to exceptional outcomes.
Our Services
Fractional CIO
CIO as a Service
Every organization is a digital organization; and every organizations needs a CIO to inform information and technology policy. Let Aerie Partners be your CIO
Technology Strategy, Policy, and Governance
Avoid all-to-common technology and information problems caused by insufficient technology strategy, policy, and governance. Let Aerie Partners align your technology with your business goals
Technology Assessments
Quick, but comprehensive, technology assessments can help identify the opportunities where your organization can improve how it uses technology and provide quick wins.
Technology Cost Management
All too often, technology investments fail to provide benefits that justify their costs, but without robust technology cost management, solutions are elusive.
Enterprise Architecture and Alignment
To get the full benefit of your technology investments, they need to be part of a well orchestrated plan that is aligned with your overall strategy.
Technology Procurement and Project Management
Level the playing field when making technology investments by employing rigorous procurement and deployment methodologies.
Organizational Change Management
Deploying new technology usually requires organizational change management to fully realize the expected benefits.
Strategic Planning and Enablement
Strategic plans are not supposed to be a binder on the shelf; to get the full benefit, strategic plans need to be embedded in the “way things are done around here.”
Business Process Improvement
Process maturity enables an organization to fire on all cylinders. Process improvement ensures that great outcomes aren’t just due to heroics.
Aerie Partners Delivers Exceptional Outcomes For These Industries
Small and Medium Businesses
Every organization is a digital organization; and every organizations needs a CIO to inform information and technology policy.
Nonprofits and Associations
Often the techology and information problems organizations experience are symptoms of insufficient technology strategy, policy, and governance
Local Government
Quick, but comprehensive technology assessments can help identify the opportunities where your organization can improve how it uses technology
State Government
All too often, technology investments fail to provide benefits that justify their costs, but without robust technology cost management, the problem is hidden.
Public Safety
To get the full benefit of your technology investments, they need to be part of a well orchestrated plan that is aligned with your overall strategy.
Prime Contractors
Level the playing field when making technology investments by employing rigorous procurement and deployment methodologies.
Why Aerie Partners
Aerie Partners was founded to level the playing field by giving small and medium sized organizations access to high-quality business services. Aerie Partners is dedicated to helping your organizations address and overcome the most complex challenges that hinder progress toward achieving your goals. By consistently applying our values and expertise, we strive to make a meaningful difference for every client we serve. The reputation we seek to build is one where any engagement with Aerie Partners leaves all parties—clients, employees, vendors, partners, and the broader community—better off. This relentless pursuit of excellence and positive outcomes is the foundation of how we work with our clients.
Aerie Partners Leadership
Jim Lipinski – Founder / Owner
Jim Lipinski is a Senior Information Technology Leader who is an expert at delivering business value from information technology investments. He enables organizations to find the sweet spot where the business value of technology investments are maximized. With experience in senior public sector IT roles and as a senior public sector IT strategy consultant, Jim has extensive functional knowledge of small and medium sized businesses, nonprofits, and government at all levels from local to federal. Where many IT professionals are primarily technologists, with an extensive technical background, deep domain knowledge, and an MBA, Jim differs in that he balances expert-level knowledge of technology trends, domain expertise, and business acumen. This enables him to:
- Develop solutions that improve mission and business outcomes through the appropriate and responsible use of information technology.
- Enable improved outcomes by taking an IT organization and putting in place the business structures and processes that allow it to meet the business/mission needs in a responsive and sustainable way.