Business Growth

Grow your mid-market business with IT and technology.

In today’s economy, every business runs on IT and technology. But it’s about more than just your systems and devices. IT can free your people from mundane tasks. It can improve decision-making and customer service. It can drive innovation with new products and services. It can help your business gain competitive advantage and achieve its strategic goals.

Freeman Clarke IT leaders are experienced in using IT to grow mid-market businesses. Here we’ve collected some of the ways you can reimagine your IT to prepare for, drive, and sustain business growth.

Grudge Purchases: When It Ain’t Broke, But You Have to Fix It Anyway

Here is a vexing issue that comes up frequently in our conversations with CEOs: when they’re forced into a major...

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When Does Your CFO Need a Fractional IT Leader?

The CFO usually has two core roles: overseeing the financial strategy of the business and operating the finance function. In...

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CEO’s Briefing: Preparing for the IT Demands of Enterprise Clients

Enterprise clients can be a big boost for a mid-market business. They bring the stability of steady revenue as well...

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How to Drive a Data Transformation

Let’s start with the bad news. Most organizations have a major data problem, and it’s an impediment to many improvements,...

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CEO’s Briefing: IT Roadmap for Growth 2025

It's impossible to run a business without IT and technology. It's also much harder to grow a business unless your...

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Turbulence is the New Normal: Let’s Stop Adding to It

Some decades ago, a journalist asked UK Prime Minister Harold Macmillan what was the greatest challenge to his administration. His...

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Two Ways to Think about AI: Advice for Mid-Market CEOs

AI won’t put you out of business. But the competitors exploiting AI might. So I asked our own experts—the CIOs...

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Create New Services with IT and Technology

How do IT and Technology Drive Business Growth? CEO Graeme Freeman and CIO/CTO Ben Cabrera discuss how back-end integration helped...

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Using IT and Technology to Grow Agile Businesses

How do IT and Technology Drive Business Growth? CEO Graeme Freeman and CIO/CTO David Birnbaum discuss how designing flexible back-end...

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Meet the most experienced team of CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, and IT Directors who deliver technology strategies that help mid-markets business...

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The Power of Technology: Driving Business Growth

How do IT and Technology Drive Business Growth? We’re continuing our Hot Topic series with another brief, informative discussion for...

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The 3 Key Ways to Transform Your Business with Technology

The lockdown created an urgent need for many businesses to switch to home offices. It wasn’t easy, but it was...

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Investing in Technology, Moving into New Markets

Many mid-market business leaders see IT and technology as a straightforward business expense. The real visionaries understand that technology can...

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Digital Transformation – 10 Ways to Begin your Journey

Ambitious business owners strive to improve the way their organization functions. Digital transformation is just one way. It enables a...

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Solidifying Your Company Culture

Meeting apps like Zoom and Teams have been incredibly useful for keeping businesses going during the pandemic. And now hybrid...

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Using Systems and Digital to Grow Your Business

Companies looking for growth need to have a plan for how their technology can support and drive this growth. Without...

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Unlocking Business Growth With Technology

Once you have your core processes and technology worked out, it becomes much easier to look for new ways to...

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Backoffice Automation

Automation can have a large and immediate impact on a mid-market business's bottom line. Our experts discuss an example of...

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CEO’s Report: Your IT Questions Answered

Everything you always wanted to know about IT and technology but were afraid to ask We wanted to know what...

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Vision + CTO = Efficiency and Growth

The right CTO will help a business leader turn their vision into a reality. Find out how our expert CTOs...

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Making a Roadmap for Growth

We all want to see our businesses grow, but without a technology roadmap for growth, it can create a lot...

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Improving Business Performance: 5 Key Areas for the Mid-Market

An economic cycle is over. We’re entering a period wherein war, commodity shocks, worker shortages, and calamitous politicians have made...

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CIO, CTO, or CISO: Which One Do I Need?

We’re often approached by ambitious mid-market CEOs looking to transform their business with IT and technology. The question of how...

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What’s the Best Path to Cybersecurity?

Even the most well-funded organisations with the smartest technology have been victimized by cyber attacks. This is means that no...

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The Power of Technology: Driving Business Growth

How do IT and Technology Drive Business Growth? We’re continuing our Hot Topic series with another brief, informative discussion for...

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5 Steps to ERP Implementation

An Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) project is when you integrate all your company’s core processes into a single system—finance, HR,...

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Free IT Assessment for Growth

Get your Free IT Assessment for Growth. It’s a brief, efficient discussion about your current IT systems, business applications, data,...

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CIO vs CTO: What’s the Difference?

It is easy to assume that a Chief Information Officer (CIO) is the same thing as a Chief Technology Officer...

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6 Reasons You Can’t Find Workers (and What to Do About It)

For mid-market businesses, hiring the right people is always a challenge. In today’s employment market, it can be near-impossible. Not...

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Top 4 Benefits of Hiring a Digital Strategy Consultant

Many companies wonder about the benefits of using a digital strategy consultant, a role often fulfilled by an experienced CIO...

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How Much Does a Fractional CIO Cost?

Why should your business have a Fractional CIO? The Chief Information Officer (CIO) is a crucial role in a business,...

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What Does a Fractional CIO Do?

CIO stands for "Chief Information Officer." It's a C-suite position responsible for technology, staff, and suppliers. CIOs also oversee systems,...

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What Is a Virtual CIO?

A Chief Information Officer, or CIO, is a crucial role for a mid-market business. It is a C-suite position with...

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Mid-Market Report: Four Steps to Navigating Inflation

It sounds like something from the deep past of the 70s, like disco balls and bell bottoms. But inflation is...

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The Three Top Post-COVID Concerns of Mid-Market CEOs

We've been getting a surge of calls from mid-market CEOs. They're wisely planning for the end of the pandemic, but...

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What Is an IT Director or VP of IT Salary?

An IT Director or VP of IT supervises technology, teams and suppliers. They focus on delivery of IT services to...

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What Is a CIO Salary?

A Chief Information Officer (CIO) has the ultimate responsibility for technology, teams, and suppliers. They provide clear oversight of systems,...

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What is the Meaning of “CIO”?

First, there is a simpler question: What does the abbreviation "CIO" stand for? The answer: "Chief Information Officer." But what...

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What is a Project Management Consultant?

A project management consultant is an expert project manager from outside an organization who manages or oversees a project or...

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Using Technology to Succeed in Wholesale and Distribution

It’s no secret that COVID brought huge disruptions to the wholesale and distribution sectors. But they only complicated a space...

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Using technology in Wholesale and Distribution: Getting the Basics Right

This is a time of extraordinary change for the market. Of course, the pandemic has brought about incredible shifts in...

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3 Steps to Online B2C: How to Create a New Channel

Some retail stores will recover, but spending may never quite return to previous levels. Restaurants and hotels will re-open, but...

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The 6 Ways Technology Is Crucial to Logistical Success

“Logistics” is a big word. It encompasses wholesaling, distribution, carriage, warehousing, transportation, 3PL, storage and more! More importantly, each aspect...

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A CEO’s Briefing: Solving Systems Integration Problems

IT and Systems Integration problems can make a simple business feel complicated. Whether it's the CRM system, Finance System, a...

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13 Key Cybersecurity Questions and Answers for Non-Technical CEOs

Cyberattacks can be complicated, but in our experience over many years, most are really simple and exploit basic weaknesses. In...

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What Do We Do at Freeman Clarke?

We are the largest and most experienced team of part-time, or fractional, CIOs and CTOs and work exclusively in the...

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What is Digital Transformation, Really?

This is the first in our four-part series on Digital Transformation. Many mid-sized businesses see IT simply as an ongoing...

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Software Robots: Buzzword or Revolutionary New Technology?

Look around any office, and you’ll see people whose main work is dealing with systems and information. People organize information,...

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Demystifying AI: A Guide for Mid-Market CEOs

There is suddenly a lot of urgency around artificial intelligence and what it will mean for the future of business....

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What is Digital Transformation and Where Do You Start?

Everyone is talking about Digital Transformation...what does it mean? If you're interested in learning how Digital Transformation can transform your...

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6 Steps to Business Clarity

At Freeman Clarke, we use the term “vision” a lot. But we don’t only mean imagining what’s down the road...

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Technology, Strategy and Vision

Companies that have a clear business strategy need a systems and digital strategy to match. Each function of an ambitious...

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Bitcoin and Blockchain: The Next Big Thing(s)?

Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and the underlying technology promise to change the business world. It’s easy to be cynical about this,...

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Bitcoin – What Is It and What Does It Mean to Business?

What is Bitcoin? Bitcoin is a digital-only currency, or “cryptocurrency,” created in 2009. It has many (or perhaps all) of...

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Team Development and Leadership

Your IT team and technology suppliers should be part of your growth strategy, helping to drive improvements in efficiency, customer...

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Using Systems and Digital to Grow Your Business

Companies looking for growth need to have a plan for how their technology can support and drive this growth. Without...

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Top 10 Tips for Effective IT Supplier Management – Infographic

To download, save or print this infographic click here Your IT Suppliers are a critical component to your success. But...

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Private: Managing Partner’s Briefing on IT’s Role in Successful Legal Services

The context for IT in the legal sector is changing but the winners are those with, amongst other essentials, a...

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Freeman Clarke is the largest and most experienced team of fractional IT leaders. We work exclusively with ambitious organizations, helping our clients use IT to beat the competition and grow. Contact us and we’ll be in touch for an informal conversation.

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Business Growth

Grudge Purchases: When It Ain’t Broke, But You Have to Fix It Anyway

When Does Your CFO Need a Fractional IT Leader?

CEO’s Briefing: Preparing for the IT Demands of Enterprise Clients

How to Drive a Data Transformation

CEO’s Briefing: IT Roadmap for Growth 2025

Turbulence is the New Normal: Let’s Stop Adding to It

Two Ways to Think about AI: Advice for Mid-Market CEOs

Create New Services with IT and Technology

Using IT and Technology to Grow Agile Businesses

Our Team

The Power of Technology: Driving Business Growth

The 3 Key Ways to Transform Your Business with Technology

Investing in Technology, Moving into New Markets

Digital Transformation – 10 Ways to Begin your Journey

Solidifying Your Company Culture

Using Systems and Digital to Grow Your Business

Unlocking Business Growth With Technology

Backoffice Automation

CEO’s Report: Your IT Questions Answered

Vision + CTO = Efficiency and Growth

Making a Roadmap for Growth

Improving Business Performance: 5 Key Areas for the Mid-Market

CIO, CTO, or CISO: Which One Do I Need?

What’s the Best Path to Cybersecurity?

The Power of Technology: Driving Business Growth

5 Steps to ERP Implementation

Free IT Assessment for Growth

CIO vs CTO: What’s the Difference?

6 Reasons You Can’t Find Workers (and What to Do About It)

Top 4 Benefits of Hiring a Digital Strategy Consultant

How Much Does a Fractional CIO Cost?

What Does a Fractional CIO Do?

What Is a Virtual CIO?

Mid-Market Report: Four Steps to Navigating Inflation

The Three Top Post-COVID Concerns of Mid-Market CEOs

What Is an IT Director or VP of IT Salary?

What Is a CIO Salary?

What is the Meaning of “CIO”?

What is a Project Management Consultant?

Using Technology to Succeed in Wholesale and Distribution

Using technology in Wholesale and Distribution: Getting the Basics Right

3 Steps to Online B2C: How to Create a New Channel

The 6 Ways Technology Is Crucial to Logistical Success

A CEO’s Briefing: Solving Systems Integration Problems

13 Key Cybersecurity Questions and Answers for Non-Technical CEOs

What Do We Do at Freeman Clarke?

What is Digital Transformation, Really?

Software Robots: Buzzword or Revolutionary New Technology?

Demystifying AI: A Guide for Mid-Market CEOs

What is Digital Transformation and Where Do You Start?

6 Steps to Business Clarity

Technology, Strategy and Vision

Bitcoin and Blockchain: The Next Big Thing(s)?

Bitcoin – What Is It and What Does It Mean to Business?

Team Development and Leadership

Using Systems and Digital to Grow Your Business

Top 10 Tips for Effective IT Supplier Management – Infographic

Private: Managing Partner’s Briefing on IT’s Role in Successful Legal Services

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