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18 - 21 November 2024

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Certificate in Business-Aligned IT Strategy

Planning short and Long-term value, co-created by business and IT

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Understand how a sustainable, strong and agile organisation can rise on agreed internal IT standards

Why Attend?

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; thereby strengthening 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

Benefits Of Attending

  • Enhance investor confidence through improved accountability and transparency. 
  • Understand what corporate governance is and why it is important. You will study the international governance frameworks. 
  • Get an update on MENA Corporate Governance codes. 
  • Discuss Corporate Failures to know what the failures were and what should have been done to avoid those failures. 
  • Examine the Board’s relationship with Risk Guidelines for effective fraud prevention.

Learning Objectives

  1. The main objective of this course is to help both the business and IT departments co create a shared business improvement agenda. 
  2. This course will help you understand how a sustainable, strong and agile organisation can only rise on the basis of agreed internal standards, using a shared architectural vision as the beacon. 
  3. The course will teach you how to jointly develop such a vision, help you create ownership of the vision, and enable you to implement this vision, combining short-term achievements with longer-term aims.

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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

Delegates must meet two criteria to be eligible for an Informa Certificate of Completion for a course:

  • Satisfactory attendance – delegates must attend all sessions of the course. Delegates who miss more than 2 hours of the course sessions will not be eligible to sit the course exam 
  • Successful completion of the course assessment. 

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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 lectured on nearly all the continents, sharing his experiences with IT Directors, CIOs and other board members.

Run this course in-house

Informa Connect Academy’s customised training solutions have helped organisations deliver tailored learning in different languages to suit every requirement