Course description
Strategic Information Technology - Level 1
Upcoming start dates
Training Course Content
This Strategic Information Technology – Level 1 course will cover:
IT strategy
- Advances in IT and developments in corporate computing
- IT applications, security, and architecture
- Issues in formulating IT strategy to meet organisational needs
- Current themes and trends – open standards and the new digital environment
- The IT strategy framework
- Where and how to start
- Common mistakes and SWOT
Project management
- Large versus small projects
- Agile versus other methodologies: SSADM and Prince II
- Big project case studies and research findings
- Procurement and contract management: life cycle procurement
- IT benchmarking
Agile project management
- History and successes
- Agile practices
- Agile disciplines and fulfilling control and reporting needs
- Setting up the agile team
Advanced Business Intelligence
- Information and intelligence to run an organisation: data driven models and budgetary control; decision support systems; risk modelling and data-mining
- Further techniques to define information: Critical Success Factors, KPIs, Balanced scorecard and benchmarks
- Specialist needs: combating money laundering; fraudulent trading etc.
- Communicating with the Boardroom: BI dashboards and BI usage
- The future: using BI to deliver policies
Using the web and social media for competitive gain
- BI and data-mining analysis of marketing and selling data
- Pro-active use of social media Facebook, viral campaigns, community groups
- Analysis of tweets and social media
- Dealing with big data and data discovery
Why choose LCT International
We have trained over 25,000 delegates from almost 500 client organisations
Highly qualified and experienced trainers who offer a unique learning experience tailored to you
Endorsed by various organisational and subject specific accrediting bodies
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