IT leadership

Move beyond IT management and into IT Leadership.
Attend this workshop today.

This two-day IT Leadership experience will expose you to the industry's best approaches to help CIOs and business leaders take control of their IT investment.

Uncover the latest in IT-best practice, and adopt these practices in your organisation

Fully understand the role and purpose of the CIO; unpack IT Intelligence and what it entails; delve into the IT supply-and-demand model and so much more.

•The requirements and characteristics of good leaders
•Some of the downsides of the leadership role
•The difference between leadership and management
•The key elements of leadership
•The need to build credibility
•An approach to build ever increasing business value delivery by the IT function
•An approach to reorganizing your IT delivery capability with a view to leveraging this to drive business value
•An IT architectural approach to building a foundation for execution that can be exploited for business value
•An approach that focuses on the separate management of the demand for IT and the supply of IT services.

Who should attend?
•Any staff in the organisation who are responsible for or involved in IT
•CIO's
•IT Managers
•Senior Managers
•Technical Specialists within IT Business Leaders
•Those with responsibility for IT Business
•IT integration or relationship managers
•Staff aspiring to one of these roles
•Graduates and trainees

TWO DAY WORKSHOP OUTLINE

Leadership - what is it?

The Role of the CIO

Shaping the role of IT in the organization
- A "Value of IT" Approach
- A growing your "IT Intelligence" Approach
- An "Enterprise Architecture" Approach
- An "IT Demand and Supply" Approach

Which approach works best for you and your or organisation?

OUR PRESENTER: Michael Payne
Front Foot courses are compiled and presented by subject matter experts and industry specialists to ensure the highest and most current standard of excellence in all our workshops and training.

Michael's career path has taken him on a journey through auditing, accounting, computer programming, tax consulting, factory management and then into the wilds of IT Management where he has worked for the last 20 years. He has worked in most IT management disciplines, including 13 years as an IT Manager. While working for a large mining company Michael developed and delivered IT management training for graduates, which sparked an in interest in developing IT management competencies.

In addition to his accounting and project management qualifications, Michael has an Advanced Certificate in Information Systems Management from the University of Pretoria and a Master of Commerce (Information Systems) from the University of The Witwatersrand.

Date: 04 April 2011 to 05 April 2011
Venue: Benvenuto Conference Centre, Randburg, Johannesburg
Cost: Cost per delegate: R4 500.00 excl VAT R5 130.00 incl VAT

Date: 02 June 2011 to 03 June 2011
Venue: Benvenuto Conference Centre, Randburg, Johannesburg
Cost: Cost per delegate: R4 500.00 excl VAT R5 130.00 incl VAT

Date: 02 August 2011 to 03 August 2011
Venue: Benvenuto Conference Centre, Randburg, Johannesburg
Cost: Cost per delegate: R4 500.00 excl VAT R5 130.00 incl VAT

Date: 04 October 2011 to 05 October 2011
Venue: Benvenuto Conference Centre, Randburg, Johannesburg
Cost: Cost per delegate: R4 500.00 excl VAT R5 130.00 incl VAT

Date: 05 December 2011 to 06 December 2011
Venue: Benvenuto Conference Centre, Randburg, Johannesburg
Cost: Cost per delegate: R4 500.00 excl VAT R5 130.00 incl VAT