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
Because supervisory levels are the link between the executive and senior management levels, achieving the organization's objectives, increasing productivity and overall performance of the organization, affects the effectiveness and efficiency of supervisors' performance.
And because of the skills of supervisors in any organization in need of continuous development, and to acquire advanced tools and methods that reflect on the deepening of these skills and activate their role in motivating individuals working, and push them to commit to the goals of the organization.
You need this conference to learn about supervisory skills and advanced methods, to be able to play an effective and supervisory role in your organization.
Managing an office has become an increasingly sophisticated and complex job. The increased demand for speed and accuracy, knowledge of new technology, and an increasingly diverse workforce bring challenges and also opportunities for growth. This dynamic and in-depth course explores some of the more advanced skills which can help an office manager to work more confidently, creatively, and effectively.
As a supervisor, the success of your organization rests in your hands. This course provides you with the opportunity to develop highly effective and essential supervisory skills that will strengthen teamwork and organizational success. Also, this course will help you manage everyday operations with greater ease. Furthermore, it will help you leverage both your managerial and people skills to meet your new challenges as the 21st-century supervisor.
This course is designed for participants to introduce to key issues and themes in international development.
Participants will explore and engage in academic debates and discussions around a set of key factors that shape, influence, and constrain the development and prosperity of nations.
The course will explore a number of key themes in international development, including how questions of gender and generation shape the impact of poverty; how processes of globalization, migration, and violent conflict impact development; and how development and the environment are linked.
It also considers what exactly we mean by poverty, and how different ways of understanding poverty feed into different approaches to tackling it.
It will also consider development institutions: what are the key institutions in the architecture of international development? How do they differ, and what are the challenges and opportunities they present? Through this module, participants will gain a solid background in the various factors which shape current approaches to and debates on international development.
By introducing participants to a range of problems in economic development, we will look to analyze how economic theory and models can explain the lack of development in some nations. We will apply such theory to real-world economies to understand the nature of the problems they face and how effective policies can be in tackling the problems.
A five-day course on the practical aspects of piping and pipeline design, integrity, maintenance, and repair. The participants will obtain an in-depth understanding of the ASME B31 code rules and API standards, their technical basis, and practical application to field conditions.
Corporate/Public governance and risk management are critical There is increasing attention being paid to corporate governance and risk management in business schools and among legislators.