This program is presented over two
four hour sessions, held one week apart.
Module
A: Managing For Business Value
Session 1:
Strategy, Business Process & Technology
Realizing business value from your
information technology investment depends not only on understanding
your business today but also on understanding where it needs to be
tomorrow. Your strategy for effective technology application
requires that you understand your business objectives, your
customers and the value those customers expect of you. This session
enables you to establish an agile strategic platform for leveraging
technology in your business.
Session 2:
Understanding Technology
With a sound strategic platform in
place you can focus now on determining the best fit for technology
applications in your business. To do so, you need to establish the
value you expect from your technology investment - and be able to
convey this clearly to both IT vendors and your IT staff. This
practical session guides you in managing both vendors and staff. It
also provides direction in distinguishing between desirable IT
investment and practical IT investment.
Module
B: The
Diagnostic Tool: Measuring Business Agility (Patent
Pending)
Session 3:
Prisma Agility
Index™: Introduction & Overview
The Prisma Agility Index™ is an
objective diagnostic tool that establishes a technology management
profile for your business. Developed by Prisma Impact Group, it
enables you to profile not only the current technology status of
your business but also the strategic objectives addressed in Module
One. This session introduces the Prisma Business Agility Index™
and its application in leveraging technology.
Session 4:
Practical Application
In this session you learn how to
apply the Prisma Agility Index™ to your business. Program
instructors are on-hand to guide you through the application of this
diagnostic tool. You will receive a detailed print-out illustrating
your completed business profile. The completed profile allows you to
identify clearly the strategic management priorities for IT decision
making in your business.
Module
C: Leveraging Technology
Session 5:
Establishing Technology Management Priorities
This session focuses on the outcomes
of applying the Prisma Agility Index™ to your business. We take you
through an evaluation of your completed diagnostic exercise, the
current technology profile and the desired strategic profile that you
have now created for your business. The “gaps” are ranked
strategically enabling you to identify specific management priorities
for technology investment in your business.
Session 6:
Leveraging Relevant Technology
In the second session of this module,
your management priorities are assessed in the context of applying
relevant technology. The objective is to establish sound parameters
for investing in the information technology hardware and applications
that best serve the strategic objectives of your business. Here you
learn how to directly relate business value to the right technology
choice.
Module
D: Managing Change
Session 7:
Integrating Business Process, Technology & The User
More than 70% of all technology
applications fail. They run over budget and under expectation. User
resistance is the single most important reason for technology
failure. This session addresses the dynamics of change management.
It aids you in the integration of users, business processes and
technology applications in a coherent framework to successfully
manage change.
Session 8:
The Agile Manager
Managing change successfully requires
that executives understand their individual strengths and weaknesses
as managers of change. This closing session alerts you to the factors
that will enable you to enhance your individual change management
skills.
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