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Driving Strategic Value From IT

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Upcoming Sessions
  May 23-26, 2010
$ 5,600
  November 7-10, 2010
$ 5,600
   
Key Benefits
During this program, you will learn to:
Establish an IT strategy
Define an IT governance process
Align your IT investment portfolio with your business strategy
Identify opportunities to add business value with IT
Qualify, quantify, and effectively communicate the value of IT
Improve the dialogue between business unit sponsors and IT executives
Make strategic outsourcing decisions for IT
Become an effective change leader
Manage performance and provide executive oversight of IT programs and projects
Mark Jeffery
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Program Content

IT Strategy

 
  • Understand the strategic context of your organization
  • Research and executive practitioner perspectives on how to define your IT strategy

  • Key challenges in synchronizing business and IT strategies
 
  • How to get a seat at the table in strategic discussions with your CEO

Governing IT for Strategic Advantage

 
  • Benchmark your organization’s IT relative to our best practice survey research of 179 Fortune 1000 firms and 44 Federal government agencies
  • IT governance frameworks and the link to strategy execution
 
  • Practitioner perspectives on implementing practical IT governance

Aligning Corporate Strategy and IT Investments

 

  • Allocate resources in an environment of complexity and capital constraints
  • Technology portfolio management frameworks
  • Understand risks, returns, and tools for informed decisions

The IT business case

 
  • Quantify technology project ROI with financial and non-financial metrics
  • Define actionable business cases for IT
  • Understand the value of flexibility, or real option value, for IT
 
  • for executive oversight—know the right questions to ask before you approve a business case.

Strategic Sourcing: Contractors, Consultants and Outsourcers

 
  • Make strategic build vs. buy and sourcing decisions
  • Manage the solicitation of sourcing contracts and mitigate risk in selecting vendors
  • Manage contractors, consultants and outsourced business / technology projects

Executive Performance Management and Oversight

 
  • Learn essential executive tools to manage the performance of complex programs and projects
  • Recognize patterns of risk
  • Implement executive oversight and implement corrective actions to turn-around at risk programs and projects

Leading and Managing Organizational Change

 
  • Defining a change strategy
  • A roadmap for executing a change strategy that works
  • Key pitfalls in leading change efforts
  • Leadership as a dynamic relationship

Putting Your Learning to Work

  • Applying program learnings in a team business-case challenge

 

 

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