Strategic Information Technology – Level 1

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Course Overview

Kickstart your strategic IT knowledge with this course, focusing on the foundational aspects of IT within a business context, including basic IT strategy and management principles.

Who Should Attend

Senior managers, executives and professionals, who need to understand the impact and opportunities arising from advances in IT, the internet, social media, cloud and open standards, in order to inform the board of emerging IT risks and opportunities
Financial executives, managers and professionals, who are responsible for budgets and projects and must know the costs, economics, potential impact of computing and how to introduce computing projects
Senior company executives who are in charge of change management, ERP, CRM and IT projects
Those responsible for delivering IT and IT projects

Course Outcomes

Appreciate the advantages and risks of corporate and internet computing, in achieving financial, efficiency and other objectives
Explain the costs, economics and opportunities provided by the corporate computing systems, the internet, cloud computing, open standards and social media
Create plans for the application and management of ERP, CRM and IT projects using agile project management to achieve efficient and reliable and effective performance

Course Topics

IT Strategy

Advances in IT and developments in corporate computing
IT applications security and architecture
Issues in formulating IT strategy to meet organisational needs
Current themes and trends – open standards and the new digital environment
The IT strategy framework
Where and how to start
Common mistakes and SWOT

Project management

Large versus small projects
Agile versus other methodologies: SSADM and Prince II
Big project case studies and research findings
Procurement and contract management: life cycle procurement
IT benchmarking

Agile project management

History and successes
Agile practices
Agile disciplines and fulfilling control and reporting needs
Setting up the agile team

Advanced Business Intelligence

Information and intelligence to run an organisation: data driven models and budgetary control; decision support systems; risk modelling and data-mining
Further techniques to define information: Critical Success Factors KPIs Balanced scorecard and benchmarks
Specialist needs: combating money laundering; fraudulent trading etc
Communicating with the Boardroom: BI dashboards and BI usage
The future: using BI to deliver policies

Using the web and social media for competitive gain

BI and data-mining analysis of marketing and selling data
Pro-active use of social media Facebook viral campaigns community groups
Analysis of tweets and social media
Dealing with big data and data discovery

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