Overview

Developments in IT have changed the paradigm for corporate IT people and the strategies they lead. Consumers and business managers are increasingly confident at exploiting technology in ways that they value. Meanwhile, executives want to constrain IT spending, not always certain of what they get in return. Today’s third generation of ‘IT strategy’ are about what people do with IT and how much it all costs, rather than technology itself.

The Corporate Strategy for IT harnesses the energy of business-led strategies for exploiting IT, to create maximum total value. It also makes transparent the linkages between business decisions and IT costs – often with some very surprising results.

This seminar and workshop provides a framework for deeply integrating IT with corporate and business strategies, and explores its impact on the organisation’s people, investments, operating costs, Enterprise Architecture, and sourcing decisions.

• Exploring the four generations of Corporate Strategy for IT. Where is your organisation today?
• Rapidly formulate the Corporate Strategy for IT in collaboration with business leaders
• Integrate IT with corporate and business strategies, and keep it that way
• Transform IT costs and budgets into a portfolio of investments in business change
• Maximise the contribution and influence of IT expertise at all stages of the investment process

Learning Objectives

The seminar will provide you with a comprehensive framework for formulating and executing your organisation’s Corporate Strategy for IT, and worked examples. Many delegates will find that it permanently changes their perspective of what the latest generation of ‘IT strategies’ are all about, including:

• The promise, principles and tactics of the Corporate Strategy for IT
• Exploring and changing the corporate investment culture, as it applies to IT
• Investing in business change and IT
• Using Enterprise Architecture to drive business innovation

The ‘expert IT customer’ management model

Seminar and Workshop Outline

IT market watch: is this the end of ‘IT Strategy’?

• Strategic inflection points in the IT market
• The four generations of Corporate Strategy for IT

Case study

• Introduction and background
• The CIO’s strategic promise

The IT value chain

• Why the business-IT gap is a myth
• The Strategic Integration Framework for IT

The Corporate Strategy for IT

• Rapidly formulating a strategy that is meaningful and memorable
• Maximising the strategy’s contribution and influence

Integrating IT with corporate and business strategies

• Why strategic integration = paradox management
• Exploring some fundamentals of corporate strategy

Investing in business change and IT

Diagnosing your organisation’s investment culture
Transforming IT budgets into a business value portfolio 

Using total Enterprise Architecture to drive business innovation

• How to drive business innovation
• Architecting Enterprise

“Expert IT Customer” management model

• The IT customer’s performance dashboard
• Organisation design, investment process, accountabilities and governance

Sourcing strategy

• The IT-related competencies you cannot outsource
• Optimising the value, cost and risk of your supplier portfolio

IT market watch revisited

• Turning research into value-adding tactics
• The ultimate destiny of the CIO

Audience

This a seminar for everyone involved in IT-related business decisions. There is no technical IT content, and any perceived gap between ‘business’ and ‘IT’ people is rapidly eliminated through a common language, skilled facilitation and a shared sense of purpose. Past delegates have included:

• CIO
• IT Strategist
• IT Manager
• Enterprise Architect
• Business Architect
• IT Consultant
• Business Consultant
• Business Information Manager
• Business Analyst
• Corporate or Business Strategist
• Business/IT Relationship Manager
• IT Manager who uses IT, or who has IT costs

Special Features

• Entirely founded on Chris’s practical work with leading companies around the world
• Case study based on real life example
• No technical IT knowledge required
• Workshop format
• Chris’s seminars regularly receive 10/10 for content and style