This intensive corporate training course on Strategic Information Technology is designed for board members and senior executives who do not work in the Information Technology (IT) sector. This course will help delegates understand how IT can contribute to business excellence in their organisation. During the two weeks of the programme, participants will learn about the various components of an effective IT strategy, developments in corporate computing; agile techniques; common mistakes and challenges; opportunities and risks; and decision frameworks. The course provides depth, clarity and a broad understanding of the IT landscape to give business the control to ensure that IT is aligned to the strategic business.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

• Senior managers, executives 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, the potential impact of computing and how to introduce computing projects
• Senior company executives who are in charge of change management, ERP, CRM and IT projects
• Those responsible for delivering IT and IT projects

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 IT, including the use of agile project management to achieve efficiency and reliability and effective performance

COURSE CONTENT

• IT strategy
• Project management
• Agile project management
• Advanced Business Intelligence
• Using the web and social media for competitive gain