The Enterprise Technology Strategist: Aligning IT & Business Strategies
A unique development opportunity designed for both IT and business executives who are challenged to optimize the overall performance of their enterprise technology portfolios. Participants improve their ability to understand, plan, and implement the alignment of their IT strategies and infrastructure with those of the enterprise for better business results.
From Penn State Executive Programs in association with the
Society for Information Management and the Association of Open Group Enterprise Architects, and the Association for Enterprise Integration.
From Penn State Executive Programs in association with the
Society for Information Management and the Association of Open Group Enterprise Architects, and the Association for Enterprise Integration.
At this moment, businesses are re-examining every business process, every product line, and every line item in the budget trying to squeeze out efficiencies that will allow them to stay profitable. As an IT executive, it is your responsibility to optimize IT investments for your enterprise. The keys lie in creating an agile, streamlined, and efficient enterprise architecture that is aligned with the mission of the business. IT executives who can synchronize their systems and services with the infrastructure and strategy needs of their organization can positively impact the organization’s performance.
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Program Objectives
The Enterprise Technology Strategist is a leading-edge development opportunity designed for both IT and business executives who are challenged to optimize the overall performance of their enterprise technology portfolios. It covers all aspects of IT and organizational alignment—from strategy and infrastructure issues to those surrounding external alliances and partnerships. This program will help you better understand, plan, and implement the alignment of your IT and business strategies and infrastructures with those of the enterprise for better business results.
Scott Bittler, Research Vice President with Gartner, presenting in the June 2008 Session
Who Should Attend?
This program is for CIOs, COOs, chief information architects, enterprise architects, directors and VPs of information technology or information management, business strategists, and other professionals who rely on IT for success.
“This program is very much needed for most companies to establish an effective and continuous connection between strategy and effective initiatives. It is key to success—and in many cases survival— for most organizations.”
--Jose Guardado, Strategic Accounts Senior Director, Oracle Corporation
Program Benefits
Backed by the power, research, resources, and knowledge of Gartner, you will learn best practices and collaborative models that will lead you to a template for success. Discussions revolve around where to invest resources, where to realign organizational goals and processes, and what policies and procedures will support core missions or business functions. This program provides a unique platform for individuals from both IT and business functions to come together in a collaborative process to ensure that strategy and investments are aligned for a flexible, agile enterprise architecture.
The business participant will understand the ways that a strong enterprise architecture can add value to the organization. The IT participant will learn how to articulate strategy in terms of the business. Together, participants will:
- Create an effective enterprise architecture discipline to drive higher IT value
- Form a common architecture vision between lines of business and IT
- Align IT strategy and infrastructure
- Construct an “adaptive architecture”
- Gain insight into far-reaching technological and business changes that are transforming inter-business relationships
- Define and design competitive organizational strategies and architecture
- Create processes for the management and governance of IT in relation to business strategy
- Understand the role of enterprise portfolio management
- Implement key disciplines of enterprise-level decision making and planning
- Demonstrate the value of enterprise architecture to organizational leadership
Program Content
The Enterprise Technology Strategist combines top faculty leaders from Penn State and other leading institutions, as well as business-technology experts from Gartner, the world's leading provider of IT research and consulting. Content covers:
Strategic IT Leadership: Assessing Your Challenge
• The organizational challenge
• Organizational culture and competitiveness
• Life cycle dimensions of organizational culture
Strategic Alignment of Business and IT
• Global strategy formulation and implementation
• Understanding organizational architectures
needed for the Information Age
• Aligning organizational and IT strategy
Core Ideas of Adaptive Enterprise Architecture
• The role of IT decision making
• Exploiting opportunities while managing risk
• Strategic alignment and change management
Designing Effective Business Architectures
• Identifying the organization’s competitive
imperatives
• Leveraging resources to capture and
deliver value
• Enabling business processes through IT
Enterprise Portfolio and Program Management
• IT portfolio management and prioritization
• Developing business cases
• Assessing program performance and value
Roundtable Issues Session
This program features a Roundtable discussion where participants can bring their own workplace challenges to the forum for open discussion and solutions. Past participants have acclaimed this as a “great opportunity to get views from academia, analysts, and industry on EA in today’s world” and “invaluable to add to the understanding of all that was presented earlier.”
"Overall a really great course. The venue was perfect the class size was just about right. I thought the agenda was very relevant and the participants were very engaged and knowledgeable. The program was well thought out and organized. I'd like to see this continue and I plan to recommend this to colleagues and coworkers."
--Robert Rosko, Vice President/General Manager, Unisys Corporation
Faculty Leaders
Each instructor has an extensive background in research and consulting, and in educating executives. Each brings to the classroom best-practice tools and implementation processes for achieving world-class results.
Faculty Director
Dr. Brian H. Cameron Professor of Practice, College of Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State
Faculty Leaders
Dr. James B. Thomas Dean, Smeal College of Business; and Professor of Information Sciences and Management, Penn State
Dr. Albert A. Vicere Executive Education Professor of Strategic Leadership, Smeal College of Business, Penn State
Dr. Joseph L. Cavinato Professor of Supply Chain Management at Thunderbird; and Executive Director, Institute for Supply Management's Center for Strategic Supply Leadership
Mr. Richard Buchanon Managing Vice President, Business of IT Research Division, Gartner
Mr. Scott Bittler Research Vice President, Business of IT Research Division, Gartner
"It was a very good presentation and the faculty obviously has a lot of experience in the field. The roadmap of strategic leadership and how it fits into various life cycles of a corporation's life was clearly laid out. The challenges IT needs to address in various life stages were also outlined, and made me think of how I could use this model to become more effective in what I do and how I motivate my team as their leader."
Rajiv Kapoor, MBA. Director Technology, eBusiness, Consumer Channel
About Penn State Executive Programs
Since 1954, organizations and individuals around the world have turned to Penn State Executive Programs to meet their leadership development needs. Drawing on the vast resources of one of the nation's top universities and the internationally ranked Smeal College of Business, executives and senior managers develop capabilities that translate into strategic creativity, effective leadership, innovation, and efficient business processes. We are currently ranked among the very best executive education providers by major publications including The Economist and BusinessWeek.
About the Society for Information Management
Since 1968, the Society for Information Management (SIM) has inspired the minds of the most prestigious IT leaders in the industry. Highly regarded as the premier network for IT leadership, SIM is a community of thought leaders who share experiences and rich intellectual capital, and who explore future IT direction.
About the Association of Open Group Enterprise Architects
The Association of Open Group Enterprise Architects (AOGEA) is the definitive professional association for Enterprise Architects. Its goals are to increase job opportunities for all of its members and increase their market value by advancing professional excellence, and to raise the status of the profession as a whole.
About the Association for Enterprise Integration
The Association for Enterprise Integration (AFEI) is a professional organization that promotes the ethical and legal exchange of information and ideas between government and industry. AFEI builds government and industry inter-relationships that cut across national and organizational boundaries and promotes the development of a global information infrastructure. AFEI is a subsidiary of the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA).
For more information contact:
Penn State Executive Programs
Smeal College of Business
The Pennsylvania State University
382 Business Building
University Park, PA 16802-3603
Phone: 814-865-3435
Fax: 814-865-3372
On the Web:
http://www.smeal.psu.edu/psep/
Email: psep@psu.edu
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