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IT Strategic Planning: Maximizing the Value of Your IT Investment

 
Course: 907   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 3 Days
 
 

You Will Learn How To

  • Develop a business-driven IT strategic plan that aligns with the needs of your organization
  • Assess the enterprise environment to determine business goals and core values
  • Analyze your current IT assets to prioritize investments and allocate resources
  • Make informed decisions to focus your strategic initiatives
  • Socialize and communicate your strategic IT vision effectively
  • Apply a continuous improvement process to monitor and update your plan

Course Benefits

IT plays a crucial role in enabling your overall business strategy. Effective IT strategic planning is an essential component to the success of the enterprise. IT strategic planning allows an organization to prioritize IT projects, optimize resource allocation and monitor performance. In this course, you gain the knowledge and skills necessary to establish an IT strategic plan that aligns with your organization's business objectives.

Who Should Attend

IT and business managers, senior executives, project and program managers, enterprise architects and anyone involved in IT strategic planning. Familiarity with an IT environment is helpful.

Course Workshop

Through an engaging case study and interactive team activities, you apply best practices and methods to develop a critical strategic plan that aligns IT with the business. Activities include:
  • Deriving key business objectives and core values
  • Building a case for an IT strategic plan
  • Prioritizing business objectives with the schema template
  • Performing a maturity assessment using an industry standard methodology
  • Conducting a SWOT analysis
  • Charting Critical Success Factors
  • Applying filtering tools to select the top strategic initiatives
  • Creating solutions for projects and lights-on activities
  • Compiling and presenting the IT strategic plan
  • Quantifying results using a balanced scorecard approach

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Upcoming Dates

Oct 15 - 17, 2008
 Toronto
Nov 5 - 7, 2008
 Los Angeles
Nov 12 - 14, 2008
 Washington, DC (Alexandria, VA)
Dec 3 - 5, 2008
 Washington, DC (Reston, VA)
Jan 14 - 16, 2009
 New York
Jan 14 - 16, 2009
 Toronto
Jan 21 - 23, 2009
 Chicago (Schaumburg)
Jan 21 - 23, 2009
 Ottawa
Jan 28 - 30, 2009
 Washington, DC (Rockville, MD)
Feb 11 - 13, 2009
 Los Angeles
Feb 18 - 20, 2009
 Washington, DC (Alexandria, VA)
Mar 11 - 13, 2009
 Washington, DC (Reston, VA)
Apr 15 - 17, 2009
 Toronto
Apr 22 - 24, 2009
 New York
Apr 29 - May 1, 2009
 Chicago (Schaumburg)

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IT Strategic Planning: Maximizing the Value of Your IT Investment

 
Course: 907   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 3 Days
 
 
Course 907 Content
 

The IT Strategic Planning Process

Establishing the rationale

  • Managing IT as a business
  • Benefits of strategic planning for IT
  • Making IT strategic planning a priority

Structuring the strategic planning process

  • Key components of an IT strategic plan
  • Defining the process
  • Engaging stakeholders in the planning process
  • Adhering to management best practices

Analyzing the Business Environment

Identifying the mission and competencies of your organization

  • Detecting internal sources of information
  • Recognizing external constraints and drivers

Assigning value and weight to enterprise objectives

  • Filtering strategic from tactical initiatives
  • Ranking objectives for maximum impact

Bridging the Gap

Reviewing established IT portfolios

  • Categorizing current projects and services
  • Appraising the IT asset inventories
  • Assessing current risks and performance
  • The role of enterprise architecture

Measuring your IT governance maturity

  • Employing a structured governance model
  • Identifying skills, roles and responsibilities
  • Controlling regulatory elements
  • Conducting a SWOT analysis

Aligning IT to your business objectives

  • Comparing IT portfolios and governance against business objectives
  • Isolating misaligned projects and services

Defining a Business-Driven IT Vision

Detecting candidate solutions and refining Critical Success Factors (CSF)

  • Taking advantage of analysis techniques
  • Leveraging your assessment results
  • Mapping CSFs to business goals

Selecting the strategic initiatives

  • Categorizing initiatives against core values
  • Managing costs and risks
  • Addressing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Establishing governance requirements

  • Validating the alignment with the enterprise strategy
  • Researching applicable compliance requirements
  • Defining the decision and accountability framework

Preparing the IT Strategic Plan

Mapping programs to the goals of your organization

  • Fine-tuning the proposed initiatives
  • Establishing business cases and technology opportunities

Establishing performance expectations

  • Anticipating the expected impact on the organization
  • Specifying control objectives
  • Negotiating SLAs and OLAs

Budgeting the investment

  • Estimating program resources
  • Scheduling and projecting cash flow

Solidifying final decisions

  • Employing decision matrices to help rationalize the candidate program prioritization
  • Selecting the final strategic initiatives
  • Producing the final plan

Executing the IT Strategy

Communicating your plan

  • Soliciting feedback from stakeholders
  • Socializing the plan
  • Getting support from senior management
  • Achieving formal acceptance and commitment to the plan

Providing input to other activities

  • Deriving annual budget estimates
  • Developing tactical plans
  • Updating project portfolios

Monitoring and improving the plan

  • Establishing metrics to measure the efficiency of the portfolio
  • Implementing an IT balanced scorecard
  • Taking corrective actions and maintaining the plan in a timely manner
 
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IT Strategic Planning: Maximizing the Value of Your IT Investment Tuition

 
Course: 907   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 3 Days
 
 

Course Tuition
$ 2,250 Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
$ 1,580 10-Day Pass
$ 1,665 Training Passport
$ 1,830 Flex-Pass
$ 2,095 Voucher 10-Pack
$ 2,025 Alumni Gold Discount
$ 2,000 Government Discount
 

 

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  • Use of in-class hands-on equipment
  • Comprehensive course materials
  • Morning and afternoon refreshments
  • Course Completion Certificate awarding Continuing Education Units
  • FREE participation in Professional Certification
  • FREE participation in College Credit programs (including related exams)
  
 

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