Strategic IT Leadership & Transformation

Course Overview

Today, AI and digitisation are the dominating tools in the transformation of our companies. Digital transformations are far from new. But they keep accelerating, catapulting our companies into the future. A challenging yet unknown future, of which the shape changes almost daily.

As a result, an unprecedented balance is required between maintaining business as usual and managing the future. The demands on our IT Divisions, sitting on top of IT as ‘the engine for change’, are huge. Meanwhile the increased dependency of our companies on digital technology, has created significant vulnerabilities.

What You Will Gain

Your IT function is expected to deliver more business value, respond to faster change, and make sense of AI and digitisation, all while keeping services stable and aligned. If you are being asked to improve performance without adding complexity, this course gives you a practical framework to turn that pressure into progress. You will leave with:

• A practical IT process architecture you can use as a backbone for organising and improving your IT division
• A business-aligned innovation process that helps you turn ideas, including AI opportunities, into structured action

You Will Learn

• Ascertain the value-add of your IT division and therewith its future
• Ensure an effective innovation process for intercepting new technologies,including AI
• Anticipate how AI will change your IT services and the way these shouldbe organised
• Guide the business towards co-operating in a more effective IT value chain
• Reposition your IT division by improving its impact on, and appreciationby, the business

This Course Is Ideal For

• CFO’s, CIO’s and IT Directors, IT Strategists and IT Governance Consultants
• Newly appointed CIO’s and IT Managers, having inherited an existing IT Division
• Managers of IT Relationship Management
• Managers of Service Management
• Change Transformation Managers and Programme Managers of IT Improvement Programmes

Certification Requirements

To qualify for a Certificate of Completion from Informa Connect Academy, learners are required to meet two criteria:

• Assessment
  • Successful completion on ongoing assessments and in-class participation
• Punctuality and Attendance
  • Eligibility for the end-of-course assessment is linked to full attendance
  • Unavoidable absence of up to 2 hours of the total course duration maybe considered upon prior written approval to Informa Connect Academy

Learners who do not qualify for the Certificate of Completion will receive a Certificate of Attendance indicating the number of hours attended.

Delivered by Fred

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

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