Information technology strategies are critical to business as they can deliver not only effective business operations but also competitively differentiated products and services for firms. Yet many business and government enterprises have found their IT organizations to be misaligned with business strategies, or even worse, so dysfunctional that business values are actually destroyed instead of added.
At the end of this course the participants will be able to:
Develop strategic thinking competency and use tools to assess and support your strategic and operating environment
Define your organization's strategic direction, strategic plan, and strategic operating plan
Translate high-level strategies into precise strategic objectives and a visual strategy deployment map to reach your vision
Ensure strategic initiatives and projects are aligned to strategy and designed to drive the right outcomes
Achieve organizational alignment via clear accountabilities, timely communication and cascading of strategy down through the organization's tiers of business
Establish a strategic management calendar to ensure governance drives strategy and strategy drives budgeting
Professionals charged with leading, managing or having responsibilities linked to development and implementation of the strategy
Owners and senior executives who see the need for more effective strategic management processes in their organization
Professionals building a pathway to professional certification and career opportunities in strategic planning and management
Strategic management consultants
University level business management degree students, both graduates and declared undergraduates, wanting to further define their value to potential employers
Technology for World-Class Organizations
Disruptive Technologies
Understanding your Organization's Core Technologies
Integrating Strategy and Technology
System to Track Trends in "Your" Technology
Processes for Technology Management
Technology Planning
Creating a Culture of Innovation
Continual Improvement
Research
Licensing
New Product Development
Competency Building
New Product Development (Research to Customer)
Understanding Synergy
Analyzing Prospective and Existing Alliances and Partnerships for Synergy Creation
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The Service Operation (SO) module is one of the certifications within the ITIL Service Lifecycle workstream. This module focuses on the principles, processes, operational activities, and functions that enable organizations and individuals to successfully manage how their products and services perform. These activities can also help improve their IT service management.
The SO module focuses on the coordination and execution of activities that enable the ongoing management and operation of the products or services developed or implemented during the service strategy, design, and transition phases of the IT Service Lifecycle as well as any technology and support resources that are used to deliver them.
The course covers management and control of activities and techniques that are documented in the ITIL Service Operation publication, but it does not provide the full detail of each supporting process. More information about these processes can be found in the Operational Support and Analysis module from the Service Capability workstream.
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