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Driving Strategic Value From IT

Leverage Technology for Improved Business Results

Professor Mark JefferyUnlock the value of IT investment to achieve improved business results by synchronizing your IT strategy with your business strategy. As a participant, you will be inspired to deliver on the power of IT to build deeper relationships with your internal and external customers, collaborate more effectively with partners, and maximize business productivity. Through lectures and group case discussion of real business problems, this program gives managers leading-edge techniques and tools to put ideas and opportunities into action - and leverage IT for strategic advantage.
Upcoming Sessions (Fee includes lodging and most meals)
Session Date Cost
November 10-13, 2013 $6,000 Apply
April 27-30, 2014 $6,300 Apply
November 9-12, 2014 $6,300 Apply

Program Materials

If you are part of an IT executive management team (CIO/CTO level and direct reports), or a business unit executive sponsor of the IT team (including CFOs and SBU heads), this program is designed for you. For maximum benefit, multiple attendees per organization are encouraged.
During this program, you will learn to:

  1. Establish an IT strategy
  2. Define an IT governance process
  3. Identify opportunities to add business value with IT
  4. Qualify, quantify, and effectively communicate the value of IT to unit sponsors and financial executives
  5. Use analytics for strategic advantage
  6. Manage performance and provide executive oversight of IT programs and projects

IT Strategy
  1. Understand the strategic context of the organization
  2. How to define the IT strategy
  3. How to get a seat at the table in strategic discussions with the CEO


Governing IT for Strategic Advantage

  1. Benchmark your organization’s IT relative to our best-practice survey research of 179 Fortune 1000 firms and 44 federal government agencies


Aligning Corporate Strategy and IT Investments

  1. Allocate resources in an environment of complexity and capital constraints
  2. Technology portfolio management frameworks to understand risks and returns


The IT Business Case 

  1. Quantify technology project ROI with financial and non-financial metrics
  2. Define actionable business cases for IT
  3. Ask the right questions before approving a business case


Unlock Value from Data

  1. How to leverage information for strategic advantage
  2. Learn to use analytics for supply chain optimization, cutting costs, and increasing
  3. Methods to drive growth and profitability through analytics


Executive Performance Management and Oversight

  1. Learn essential executive tools to manage the performance of complex programs and projects
  2. Recognize patterns of risk
  3. Implement corrective actions to turn around at risk programs and projects


Transformational Leadership

  1. Define your change strategy and create a roadmap for implementation
  2. Key pitfalls in leading change efforts
  3. CIO leadership as a dynamic relationship with the business
Mark Jeffery - Academic Director; Senior Lecturer of Executive Programs

Russell Walker - Clinical Associate Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences; Associate Director of the Zell Center for Risk Management

Tim Zoph - Senior Vice President, Administration and CIO, Northwestern Memorial Healthcare

Featured Faculty Video

  • Professor Mark Jeffery: The role of portfolio management in IT and marketing decisions

What Past Participants Say

  • "In these times, business alignment and value proposition are precisely what most IT organizations are concerned about, and this program hits the nail right on the head, providing specific frameworks that can easily be ported and implemented."
    - VP, Information Technology, Trustmark Insurance
  • "My ROI for this program was very high. It gave me effective tools to align IT projects to business strategy and to track the performance and execution of these projects, thereby reducing the risks."
    - Director of Information technology, Panama Canal Authority
  • "Excellent instruction and materials! The topics were very relevant to my role as a regional CIO. I am able to put the experience to immediate use i n my job."
    - Vice President, IT EMEA, Federal Express
  • "I've attended other CIO seminars, and this program is by far the best. The comprehensive and integrated approach to IT strategy, implementation and execution sets this program apart from the competition and provided value for my company."
    - VP Information Management, Bosch Rexroth Corporation.
  • "This program provides the opportunity for senior IT mgt to learn and apply technology investment strategies/process to support the operational and strategic needs of the business."
    - Farm Credit Canada, Sr. Director, Business Platform Solutions
  • "The case study and team-based learning approach combined with industry executives' real-life experiences made this an invaluable learning activity."
    - Director of Financial and Administrative Services, University of Illinois
  • "What I have been trying to solve for the last 1 yr was delivered to me in 40 hrs.- this was short, sweet, intense and a fun session. A must in your portfolio of executive development program."
    - Merck, Dir -Strategy & Portfolio Planning

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