Strategic Information Technology – Level 1

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