DT Module II: Executing Digital Strategy: „Delivering Real Business Value from Technology Investments"

Tackling Digital Transformation

IEDC, Bled
16.04.2018 09:00 AM
1.250 € + VAT
1.125 € + VAT
March 15, 2018

This practical course will prepare participants to identify the potential benefits that can be obtained from digital investments, together with clarifying what will be required to successfully deliver them.

Organizations are all too often disappointed with the returns they are achieving from their IT/digital investments. Indeed, many IT implementation projects fail outright. With technology central to their digital transformation ambitions, it is imperative that organizations set up and manage such projects in ways that increases the likelihood of real business value being delivered. This practical course will prepare participants to identify the potential benefits that can be obtained from digital investments, together with clarifying what will be required to successfully deliver them.

Why

attend?

  • Gain a clear understanding of how your organization can become more effective in delivering the maximum benefits from its investments in IT/digital
  • Learn an approach supported by proven tools and techniques that enable ‘real’ benefits to be identified, planned for and then realized
  • Apply techniques to identify the key stakeholders and, if required encourage them to actively engage with the project
  • Work with an approach and blueprint for building a realistic business case
  • Gain practical experience in applying the tools and techniques to real projects.

 

Who

Should attend?

 

  • Executives leading their organization’s digital transformation journey
  • Executives responsible for sponsoring IT/digital investments
  • Managers responsible for planning, justifying, and running IT investments
  • Senior project and program managers

Topics

covered?

  • Aligning the portfolio of investments in IT/digital with business objectives
  • Mapping organizational changes against expected benefits, investment objectives, and business drivers
  • Analyzing stakeholders to understand their position and building strategies to increase buy-in
  • Identifying and overcoming obstacles that can prevent the realization of expected business benefits
  • Defining metrics and assigning responsibilities
  • Building robust and realistic business cases
  • Designing projects and programs to accommodate different types of digital investments
  • Planning for a digital transformation
  • Choosing between agile and waterfall approaches to implementation
  • Establishing the right kind of PMO
  • Lessons from the field: success and failure factors

When

Start date: April 16, 2018 at 9:00 AM

End date: April 17, 2018 at 5:00 PM

About Digital Transformation Program

The Digital Transformation Program provides an integrated understanding and knowledge of business fundamentals for leading digital transformation. Business leaders and executives obtain the tools they need to create a clear digital business model. They will learn about the trends invading in the business environment and strategies of effective digital marketing and ways of implementing digitalization in business practice.

Module 1: Digital Business Model, March 15 - 16, 2018 by Branislav Vujović, Austria

Module 2: Executing Digital Strategy, April 16 - 17, 2018 by Prof. Joe Peppard, MIT Sloan School of Management,USA

Module 3: Digital Marketing, May 17 - 18, 2017 by Prof. Kersi D. Antia, Ivey Business School,Western University, Canada

Contact

Albina Ribic
Albina Ribič
Executive Education Advisor

A programme for your entire team?

All of our open programmes can also be offered and delivered as in-company solution to groups of employees from the same organisation. This allows us to develop a programme that focuses on your organisation’s own situation and issues. We can schedule it at a time and location that you prefer. We can also tailor the content to fit your organisation’s needs. Please feel free to contact us for a no-obligation proposal and to explore the possibilities

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