Certified Strategic IT Manager

Certified Strategic IT Manager

The Business – IT Strategic View

An IT manager today must have a forward-looking view of the role of IT in the business and anticipate changes, business needs and resources available. This need is driven by the current transition to the digital enterprise and is a major factor in delivering new business products and services. It requires significant changes in the execution of the business within the organization and also within the Information Technology organization. IT is becoming the main infrastructure of the business and, as such, the IT manager has to understand the strategic implications of each IT solution or service affecting the organization.

Bearing the above in mind, this course focuses on the challenging transition occurring both within IT and in the dynamic changes emerging and evolving in the relationship between IT and the business. The material in this course covers all the approaches that a Strategic IT manager needs to meet these challenges.

Prerequisites:

• A laptop is required and must allow installation of software.

Certification Requirements

All course attendees must meet minimum testing standards including in-class exercises to receive certification (75% is the passing grade).

By attending this highly beneficial course, delegates will:

• Understand the linkage between strategic business plan and IT plan.
• Map business strategic and organization direction into a set of architectural models to identify IT direction and business value.
• Analyze the fusion of IT and key strategic resources that achieve and sustain business and IT performance leadership.
• Identify trends that impact business / IT technologies and identify opportunities that create new business value.
• Appraise IT performance, initiatives, applications, and technologies that support business needs that justify IT investment.

Who should attend

• Business Analysts
• Business System Analysts
• IT Business Analysts
• IT Directors
• IT Managers
• Heads of IT
• Chief Information Officers
• IT Strategists
• IT Enterprise Architects
• IT Functional Analysts
• IT Infrastructure Manager
• IT Planners
• IT Project Managers

Meet your expert course trainer: Gil Laware

Gil Laware is Managing Partner of Information By Design (IBD), Inc. a professional services firm founded in 2005 with practice areas in business performance and intelligence management, business and enterprise architectures, application and system development implementations. IBD provides CIO services and other professional information technology services for various companies. He has over 30 years of consulting and industry experience with Fortune 50 companies. He has experience in manufacturing, transportation, government, finance and banking services.

Gil has project experiences in: business and IT strategic planning; business process management, redesign and improvement; enterprise, business and data architecture; data warehousing and business intelligence; emergency management systems, enterprise resource planning, project management; manufacturing systems; and customer relationship management. Previously, he was an Associate Professor of Computer and Information Technology in the College of Technology at Purdue University, an Associate Director for Fujitsu Consulting, Manager of Data Services for Whirlpool Corporation, Vice President of Information Services for Franklin Savings Bank, held various managerial and consultative roles with the IBM Corporation, and was President of Management Support Systems.

Gil has authored over 50 papers including a NIST chapter discussing the gaps that exist in the software development process that supports manufacturing systems. He was a founder of the Kansas City DAMA Chapter and served as the Vice President of Finance for the DAMA Education and Research Foundation. He provides training seminars on business strategy/planning and IT strategic planning approaches for CIO’s and IT Managers nationally and internationally.

KCI and the FEAC Institute

KCI (Knowledge Consultants Inc) is pleased to offer its certification program through the FEAC Institute expanded certification program. FEAC has a long history of providing independent certification oversight. Their university relationships with California State University and National University provide certified professionals with additional educational opportunities.

Since opening in 2002, FEAC™ their worldwide program has graduated over 1,400 Certified Enterprise Architects (CEAs) and trained over 1,500 in several other architecture disciplines. FEAC programs feature the best thought leaders and instructors in the field of enterprise architecture, including John Zachman, the creator of the Zachman Framework™, considered the father of Enterprise Architecture and author of numerous EA publications. Now, FEAC has expanded its certification to include related business disciplines that expand and enable the architecture perspective.

Certification Value

Value to the professional

• It is a form of personal recognition and achievement
• Industry surveys suggest that certified employees enjoy higher salaries
• Provides for a degree of specialization that can increase marketability
• Transfers useful knowledge in a short time

Value to the employer

• Provides an assurance of a level of competence
• Trains in specific skills that are applicable to work
• Brings individuals and teams up to speed in a discipline rapidly
• Cost effective way of upgrading a staff
• Hands- on exercises provide skill training
• Knowledge transfer from trainers with industry and management experience

Available Certification for the IT Professionals:

• Certified IT Manager
• Certified Professional IT Manager
• Certified Expert IT manager (must include Strategic IT Planning)
• Certified Master IT Manager
• IT Manager Boot camp 5 days Certified Professional IT Manager (includes Strategic and Effective IT Manager courses)

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