Advanced Strategic Information Technology
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In London
Make this area a crucial strategic weapon for success!
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Type
Short course
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Level
Advanced
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Location
London
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Duration
2 Weeks
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Start date
June
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This two-week Advanced Strategic Information Technology, a training course imparted by London Corporate Training, is aimed at senior executives and managers tasked with delivering an Information Technology (IT) strategy or those who seek to understand how to deliver their areas of responsibility using IT.
The program reviews typical IT applications, enterprise computing and standard IT approaches. It provides context for key choices faced by the business and suggests how IT can enable and deliver that.
This includes reviewing common challenges; opportunities, risks, management information, project management, and data quality as a determinant of project success. Topical issues such as new devices, social media and networking and the service cloud - rapidly growing areas of computing currently - and their significance in relation to IT strategies and corporate planning.
Comprehending the IT landscape brings clarity to the choice of product, project and resources that management need to make in order to align IT strategically to business requirements.
If you are interested in joining this course, ask for further information through emagister.co.uk.
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By the end of the course delegates will be able to:
• 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 to introduce efficient enterprise computing systems, cloud computing and Software as a Service (SaaS)
• 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
• Senior financial executives, managers 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 and 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
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The average rating is higher than 3.7
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This centre has featured on Emagister for 15 years
Subjects
- Computing
- CRM
- Systems
- Project
- Financial
- ERP
- Media
- Financial Training
- Internet
- Technology
- Strategic Information Technology
- Social Media
- IT Risks
- IT Strategy
- Project Management
- Agile Project Management
- Advanced Business Intelligence
- Cloud computing
- Customer Relationship Management
- Management Information
- Enterprise Resource Planning
- Business Intelligence
Course programme
- 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 frameworkWhere 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 usageThe future: using BI to deliver policies
Using the web and social media for competitive gain
- BI and data-mining analysis of marketing and selling dataPro-active use of social media Facebook, viral campaigns, community groupsAnalysis of tweets and social mediaDealing with big data and data discovery
Cloud computing
- The economic case for cloud computing
- The opportunities from cloud computing: SaaS, IaaS, PaaS etc.
- Cloud issues: security, confidentiality, performance, limitations (big data and content)
- Purchasing and procurement of cloud
- Cloud as an opportunity to upgrade and to rethink data and processes
- What is SOA and should I care?
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
- ERP and workflow – history and economics
- Functionality and vendor analysis
- ERP pitfalls
- ERP and open standards
- Common mistakes and SWOT
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
- Second generation CRM and functionality
- Selecting and specifying your CRM – on-premise v cloud
- Marketing analysis and campaigns, 360° relationships and social media
- The application of CRM in public and private sector (sales v. citizen interactions)
- Common mistakes and SWOT
Management Information and Financial Systems
- Selecting and specifying your financial system, including appraisal against IFRS
- Managing a large organisation – meeting board, management and regulatory needs
- The impact of cloud and big data issues
- Data efficiency, utilisation and control, avoiding data silos
- Business Intelligence and an integrated view of the organisation
Advanced Strategic Information Technology