Certificate in Business-Aligned IT Strategy

Course Overview

In today’s business climate, companies are striving for business excellence and customer excellence requiring a strong support from their IT services; more often to fuel the required transformations of the business.

Serious challenges impact our organisations while placing a high demand on the business. Information Technology provides the potential to cope with these challenges and further helps to utilise them to your advantage; therebystrengthening your company’s external position in the market. However, a shared agenda by the business and the IT disciplines is essential to cope with these challenges, leading to demands placed on senior managers from both domains.

Benefits of Attending

• Understand what drives true business innovation leadership and create abjoint agenda between IT and business disciplines, for effective company digitisation
• Learn to influence your CEO to better understand his own role in implementing short and long-term improvements, using IT as a change engine
• Resolve the false contrast between short-term results and the building of a future-oriented platform
• Avoid the pitfalls of making blueprints, and instead, embark on a discovery journey with a defined destination but flexible route

Who Should Attend

IT Managers and IT Specialists, committed to developing a joint Business-IT blueprint to improve the strategic contribution of IT (such as CIOs, IT Directors, Heads of CIO Offices, Managers of IT Policy and Architecture, and Enterprise Architects) will greatly benefit from this course.

Senior Business Managers aiming to take responsibility for Business Innovation, while using IT as an engine for change, should also attend this course. This includes COOs, CFOs, Division Managers, Business Unit Managers, Department Managers, Strategy Managers, and Corporate Strategists.

Course Requirements

You must meet two criteria to be eligible for an Informa Connect Academy Certificate of Completion:

• Satisfactory attendance: You must attend all sessions of the course. If, for any reason, you miss more than 2 hours of the course sessions, you will not be eligible to sit the course assessment
• Successful completion of the course assessment: Assessments will be ongoing and based on in-class participation and activities

Takeaway

The course material will include a variety of:

• Checklists
• Templates
• Tools

To help you make a running start with the development of a business-aligned IT strategy.

Delivered by Fred

Fred van Leeuwen is an international authority in the field of IT and consults with clients for practical IT improvement on a daily basis. He has written thought-provoking publications on the subject and has led IT strategy training courses on nearly all the continents, sharing his experiences with IT directors, CIOs and other board members.

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