Linos CIO
One system of record for every IT investment decision — from the first napkin business case, through vendor selection and contract signing, to renewal reviews and portfolio governance. The CIO’s scattered spreadsheets, replaced.
CIO offices struggle with four related problems.
Inconsistent business cases
Every project team calculates ROI differently. Some ignore the time value of money. Some forget labor costs. Few track benefits after go-live.
Renewal blindness
Multi-year contracts auto-renew because nobody saw the 90-day notice window. Negotiation leverage is lost. Spend on redundant tools accumulates.
Vendor evaluation without rigor
Selections happen on gut feel. TCO comparisons are cherry-picked. Switching costs are underestimated.
Portfolio opacity
Leadership can’t answer basic questions: what percentage of IT spend is run vs grow vs transform? Which investments are underperforming?
Linos CIO addresses all four with a shared data model, a common financial engine, and module-specific workflows on top.
What you get.
Replace the uncontrolled Excel ecosystem with a guided workflow. Taxonomy-enforced cost composer. Benefit composer with confidence tagging. TCO, ROI, NPV, IRR, payback in real time. Base / upside / downside scenarios. Stage-gate workflow from draft through CIO approval. Post-approval benefit realization tracking.
- ▸ Guided intake by category and investment type
- ▸ Cost taxonomy: hardware, software, cloud, services, labor, training, change, decommissioning
- ▸ Confidence-weighted benefit modelling
- ▸ Stage-gate approvals configurable by threshold
Complete visibility into your renewal calendar and the analytical tools to decide, for each contract, whether to renew, renegotiate, consolidate, or retire. Automated alerts at T-180, T-120, T-90, T-60 days. Utilization signals from your identity provider.
- ▸ Contract registry with 12-month look-ahead calendar
- ▸ License count vs active users
- ▸ Consolidation view grouped by capability area
- ▸ Renewal decision workflow with savings tracker
Bring structure and reproducibility to vendor selection. Weighted scoring templates by category (ERP, CRM, ITSM, collaboration, observability). Side-by-side TCO for up to five options. Reference call tracker. Decision memo generator.
- ▸ Weighted criteria across 6 buckets (functional, technical, viability, commercial, implementation, strategic)
- ▸ Multi-evaluator scoring with roll-up
- ▸ Apples-to-apples TCO over 5-year horizon
- ▸ One-page decision memo PDF
Elevate the data from the three operational modules into a portfolio view the CIO can use for quarterly reviews, board reporting, and strategic planning.
- ▸ Portfolio map: cost × strategic value × technical health × RAG
- ▸ Run / Grow / Transform split with target allocation
- ▸ Capacity planning: demand vs IT FTE supply
- ▸ Top 10 watchlists & stage-gate pipeline
Shared services that make the numbers actually match.
Want early access?
We’re piloting Linos CIO with a small group of CIO offices. If that’s you, we’d love to hear about your programme and give you a first look.
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