This two-week training course on Advanced Strategic Information Technology has been popular with senior executives and managers responsible for the IT strategy of the organization, because of the industry experience and insight of the trainers. By means of presentations, videos, and lively debate, it addresses all aspects of typical IT applications, enterprise computing and standard IT approaches. It also discusses challenges and opportunities derived from rapidly evolving areas of computing such as new devices, social media and networking and the service cloud.

Who Should Attend

• Senior financial executives, managers and professionals, who need to understand the impact and opportunities arising from advances in IT, the internet, social media, cloud and open standards, in order to inform the board of emerging IT risks and opportunities
• Financial executives, managers and professionals, who are responsible for budgets and projects and must know the costs, economics and potential impact of computing and how to introduce computing projects
• Senior company executives who are in charge of change management, ERP, CRM and IT project

Learning Objectives

• To understand the advantages and risks of corporate and internet computing, in achieving financial, efficiency and other objectives
• To understand the costs, economics and opportunities provided by the corporate computing systems, the internet, cloud computing, open standards and social media
• To plan how to introduce efficient enterprise computing systems, cloud computing and Software as a Service (SaaS)
• To plan how to apply and manage ERP, CRM and IT projects using agile project management to achieve efficient and reliable and effective performance

Course Content

• IT strategy
• Project management
• Agile project management
• Advanced Business Intelligence
• Using the web and social media for competitive gain
• Cloud computing
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
• Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
• Management Information and Financial Systems