Today’s technology is a fundamental enabler of corporate ROI, competitive business imperatives and employee productivity.
Effective business leadership now involves learning how to leverage technology as a competitive, tactical and operational differentiator for your business.
This non-technical technology planning & strategy tools program features business-focused techniques and how-to templates to let you align technology with strategic business objectives for potentially transformational results in productivity and profitability.
Who Should Attend
This seminar will benefit any senior or mid-level business or technical manager, project manager or technology staff leader who seeks to enhance their organization’s strategic technology plan. It is ideal for:
- Chief information officers and IT directors
- Directors of operations and network systems
- Business professionals and division managers overseeing technology in department budgets
- Project managers, developers and analysts involved with introducing new business initiatives
- Executives and senior managers involved in new business strategies requiring technology support
- Business owners and strategic planners
What You Will Learn
- The key elements of a business-focused information technology strategic plan
- Alignment of new technology initiatives with changing markets, products and business plans for maximum effectiveness
- Modelling corporate situations to determine your most pressing technology project needs
- A step-by-step planning approach that is customizable to your organization’s business drivers, culture and products
- Collaborative definition of your technology priorities to determine where to allocate money, equipment and staff
- Proactive anticipation of risk and pitfalls in strategic planning
- Cultivation of project commitments with key stakeholders
- Techniques which help strategic stakeholders wield technology to transform the business
- Key computer security and audit issues
- Implementation of organizational technology governance structures to support changing corporate priorities
