Board Ready IT
Board-ready IT toolkits for UK technology leaders
For CIOs, CTOs, IT Directors and Heads of IT in UK organisations who need to explain IT spend, AI and cyber risk in terms the board can act on.
Built by Mike Fraser from 15 years of board-level technology leadership.
The toolkit
Available now · Digital download
Board-Ready IT Spend Toolkit
Turn your IT spend into a P&L-style view the board can actually sign off. Helps Heads of IT explain, defend and challenge IT spend with the CFO and board.
What the toolkit helps you do
Three things, before the next board meeting.
1
Explain the spend
Show where IT money goes in terms non-technical executives recognise: Run, Grow and Transform, percentage of revenue, cost per employee.
2
Defend it, and surface waste
Defend the spend that is doing real work, and put the waste on the table for challenge before someone else finds it for you.
3
Land it on one page
Prepare a single A4 board slide, with a narrative and three clear decisions, that stands up to scrutiny in the room.
Why trust this
Built by someone who has sat on both sides of the table.
- Built by Mike Fraser, a fractional CTO with 15 years in board-level technology leadership.
- Shaped by real CFO and board conversations about IT budgets, not a generic spreadsheet template.
- Native Excel formulas, no macros. Works in Excel 2019, Excel 365 and Google Sheets.
- 30-day refund: if it's not what you expected, email and we'll refund you.
Coming soon
More board-ready toolkits in development.
Coming soon
Board-Ready AI Toolkit
Help the board judge AI proposals: where the value is, where the risk sits, and what to approve.
Coming soon
Board-Ready Cyber Toolkit
The evidence pack and board narrative for cyber risk, ready for the questions directors are now asking.
More board-ready toolkits are in development. The IT Spend Toolkit is available now.
Why Mike Fraser built this
An operator's toolkit, not a consultant's template.
Mike Fraser is a fractional CTO with 15 years in board-level technology leadership: CTO of Wilmington Plc (LSE-listed), almost a decade at RELX, executive board roles across media, data and education.
He has inherited more IT budgets than he would like to admit, and the first thing every one of them needed was a clean view the CFO and board could actually challenge. Board Ready IT turns that work into toolkits other technology leaders can run themselves.
For Mike Fraser's fractional CTO work and full background, visit mikefraser.me.
15 years
board-level technology leadership
£10m–£100m
typical organisation revenue
9 acquisitions
technology due diligence & integration
3 divestments
technology separation & carve-out
Put your IT spend on one page you can defend.
90 minutes. One A4 page. Three decisions for your board.
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