Executive Seminar: Harvesting Value from IT Investments
3 Day Executive Seminar – March 24-26, 2015
Date: Tuesday March 24 to Thursday March 26, 2015
Time: All day. (Registration 8:30 a.m. Course starts at 9 a.m. Coffee breaks at 10:30 a.m. and 3 p.m.
Location: Room 2440R BOG Boardroom, River Building, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Cost: $1950 + HST
CPE Hours: 24
Program Content
Organizations have spent millions of dollars investing in Information Technology (IT) with a view to achieving massive improvements in their operations. Yet far too often, these investments have often not produced the returns expected. Many technology projects fail, deliver late or are over budget. But even those that are implemented come up short on their promise. Why is this?
There are two major components missing. The first is a focus on Business Value. This Seminar will define Business Value and help you understand how to articulate it and use it to create the oh-so-elusive alignment needed to make IT investments successful
The second is the engineering paradigm often used to communicate IT efforts needs to be replaced with a model more accommodating of change and more sensitive to the realities of organizations. This model would be more akin to agriculture than to construction, with a focus on the harvest and a weather eye to change. This seminar will introduce that agricultural model.
Program Outline
- The IT management challenge
- IT’s strategic role in the organization
- Defining Value: The Value Cycle
- Business-IT relationship – beyond engineering!
- From Technology to Value: The Value Realization Cycle
- Governing IT in organizations
- Enterprise architecture
- IT portfolio management
- Sourcing Options
- Linking IT to business value
- Measuring IT impact and outcomes
- Case studies
The seminar takes advantage in the latest research and practice on IT business value
You will learn to:
- Re-imagine how IT can shape and support business outcomes
- Re-frame thinking about the Business – IT relationship and how business value is created
- Build and prioritize IT portfolios
- Measure and communicate IT value to top management and other stakeholders
- Show value for money from IT investments
- Lead 21st Century digital enterprises.
- Share real-life IT management experiences with peers
Who should attend
This seminar is not just for IT professionals. It is intended for senior staff in all areas who are responsible for the delivery and assessment of value derived from technology investments.
- Business and IT executives accountable for IT value delivery
- Business managers making IT portfolio decisions
- IT managers responsible for delivering on business priorities
- Auditors and Financial Professionals
Seminar Facilitators
Dr. Gerald Grant is Director of the Ph.D. Program, Director of the Centre for Information Technology, Organizations, and People (CITOP) and Associate Professor at the Sprott School of Business, Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He obtained his PhD in Information Systems from the London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom. Dr Grant’s work focuses on the strategic management of information systems in organizations, particularly on issues around governance of IT in organizational and inter-organizational settings. He has consulted internationally for organizations such as the Commonwealth Secretariat in the U.K., the COMNET-IT Foundation in Malta and the Government of Jamaica. He is a seasoned presenter, have developed and presented workshops and seminars to audiences across the world, including Canada, USA, UK, South Africa, Brazil, Malaysia, Malta, Jamaica, among others. His community involvement includes serving as a member of two Mayor’s Task Forces for the City of Ottawa (Canada): the e-Government and IT Taskforce and the Governance Taskforce set up by the Mayor of Ottawa in 2008 and 2009 respectively. He served as one of the judges of the City of Ottawa’s 2011 Open Data contest. Dr Grant is also a member of the Advisory Board of DPI-The Association of Public Sector Information Professionals.
Rob Collins
Rob Collins is an experienced technology executive with has more than 30 years experience. He was the Chair of the Mayor’s Task Force on eGovernment for the City of Ottawa. In 2013, Rob was Transitional CIO for the City of Ottawa where he was brought in to change that organization’s approach to IT. To do this, he implemented a new planning model, new governance process and reorganized the IT department. Rob spent twenty years with Cognos, Inc., including roles as product line Vice-President and Chief Information Officer.
The Information Systems Leaderships Series (LeadIS) is a program of the Centre for Information Technology, Organizations, and People (CITOP) focusing on the development of next generation business and IT executives.