Your Corporate Strategy for IT, 27-28 April 2010

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The following topics are spread over 2 days:

• IT market watch: is this the end of "IT Strategy" ?
• Strategic inflection points in the IT market
• The four generations of Corporate Strategy for IT
• Case study
• Introduction and background
• The CIO’s strategic promise
• The IT value chain
• Beyond Porter: integrating IT core competencies with primary business activities
• Why the business-IT gap is a myth
• The Strategic Integration Framework for IT
• The Corporate Strategy for IT
• Rapidly formulating a strategy that is meaningful and memorable
• One-page strategies: Promise, Principles and Tactics
• Maximising the strategy’s contribution and influence
• Integrating IT with corporate and business strategies
• Why strategic integration = paradox management
• Exploring some fundamentals of corporate strategy
• Strategic focus; virtual company and core competencies; financial structure

• Investing in business change and IT
• Diagnosing your organisation’s investment culture
• Inverted investment plans
• Transforming IT budgets into a business value portfolio
• Using true Enterprise Architecture to drive business innovation
• True Enterprise Architectures
• How to drive business innovation
• Architecting Enterprise
• "Expert IT Customer” management model
• The IT customer’s performance dashboard
• Organisation design, investment process, accountabilities and governance
• Innovative operating models for IT
• Sourcing strategy
• The IT-related competencies you cannot outsource
• Optimising the value, cost and risk of your supplier portfolio
• IT market watch revisited
• Turning research into value-adding tactics
• The ultimate destiny of the CIO