GRIFFIN DIGITAL OPERATIONS Technology leadership, without the full-time hire.
Modernization needs an owner — someone who builds the roadmap, manages the vendors, and answers to leadership when it slips. Most industrial operations don't need that person forty hours a week. They need them at the right table, at the right moments.
- CADENCE
- A day a month to several a week
- SEAT
- Reports to the executive team
- ROLE
- Owns the modernization roadmap
One owner for modernization.
Not advice from the sidelines — accountability for the whole effort, carried on a part-time basis:
- 01 Interview field teams and surface the real opportunities
- 02 Build and own the modernization roadmap
- 03 Evaluate vendors and lead selections
- 04 Lead implementations and oversee software projects
- 05 Sit in steering meetings and report to executives
- 06 Make sure technology spend shows up in operations
What the work looks like.
Strategy sessions
Standing meetings with leadership: current challenges, running projects, operational metrics, and what comes next.
A sounding board on call
"Am I thinking about this correctly?" — asked before the money is spent, not after.
Vendor evaluation
Sit in on demos, pressure-test proposals, and ask the questions vendors hope you won't.
Roadmap development
Sequence this year and the two after it — instead of chasing every shiny new technology.
Project oversight
Steering committees, early risk flags, and translation between operations and vendors.
Budget guidance
Where next year's technology dollars will actually move the operation — and where they won't.
When leadership picks up the phone.
“We’re thinking about replacing our scheduling process. Can you help us think it through before we commit?”
“A vendor is pitching us a production management system. Can you sit in on the demos?”
“We can’t see where jobs are getting delayed. Where would you start?”
“We want to use AI, but we don’t know where it actually makes sense.”
Three levels of involvement.
- Executive guidance on technology decisions
- Monthly strategy session
- Quarterly roadmap review
- On-call sounding board
- Ownership of the modernization roadmap
- Vendor management and selection
- Technology planning with leadership
- A standing seat at the leadership table
- Active project leadership
- Requirements and architecture
- Vendor coordination
- Executive reporting
Every engagement is shaped around your operation — cadence and scope flex as the roadmap moves.
Add the seat without the hire.
Tell us where modernization is stuck, and we'll talk through what ownership would look like at your operation.
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