Bangkok--16 Oct--Software Park
Date / Time: 3 -5 November 2008/ 9.00 - 17.00 hrs.
Venue: Training / Seminar Room, 3rd Floor, Software Park Building
Registration Fee: 22,000.00 (Excl.: VAT 7 %)
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Course Overview
This course offers an approach for organizations to plan the fusion of IT with other strategic resources to achieve and sustain leadership. The underlying paradigm is that an organization's technology portfolio should be distinguishable from the business processes and human elements of service and communications that exploit technology.
Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to appreciate the essence of business planning and strategy development, as well as position IT as a strategic resource. They will learn how to progress from business and organization analysis to identification of opportunities for IT enablement.
Course Audience
- CIOs, IT directors and senior business executives
- IT managers and executives
- Business managers and executives, corporate and IT planners, business strategists
- Anyone who has an interest in Business-IT planning
Course Contents
- Strategic IT Planning Framework
- Vision, Mission and Goals
- Vision, mission, objectives/ goals and strategies
- Alignment of IT strategies with business strategies
- Critical Success Factors (CSFs)
- What the critical success factors
- How to elicit CSFs from executives How CSFs are used in SITP
- Workshop
- Industry Analysis and IT Opportunities
- Porter's five forces
- Competitive strategies matrix
- Strategic role of IT
- SWOT Analysis
- Assessing internal strengths and weaknesses
- Analysing external opportunities and threats
- Identifying potential IT opportunities on the basis of the SWOT analysis
- Process Analysis and IT Opportunities
- Process identification and mapping
- Process evaluation
- Impact of IT on processes
- Identifying IT opportunities
- Workshop
- Selecting IT Applications
- Criteria for selecting IT applications
- Using objectives and CSFs to validate selection
- Approach/ techniques
- Key deliverables
- Overview of Systems Architecture
- Systems architecture - definition, concepts and components
- Framework for systems architecture development
- Formalising the IT Plan
- Contents of the IT plan
- IT investment justification
- Presentation to senior management
Course Benefits
Participants will learn how to progress from business and organization analysis to identification of opportunities for IT enablement.
For more information please contact:
Poonporn Limpakom
Technology Transfer Department
Software Park Thailand
Tel: 02-583-9992 ext. 1421
Fax: 02-583-2884
E-mail: [email protected]