High-Impact IT Leader - Succeed as CIO/CTO/IT Director 2024!

Do you want to become a better IT leader? 

This course is designed for those already in, or aspire to be, a CIO/CTO/IT Director or other C-level IT role.  Unlike the masses of other leadership courses out there, this course is specifically for those working in the technology space. 

The unique course will provide you with a broad set of knowledge and insights that will be well worth your time and the modest course fee.

Develop a LEADERSHIP MINDSET

• Role of Today's IT leader

• The 3 CIO Archetypes

• Deloitte's 3 CIO Patterns

• Friend of the CEO

• Some Questions for Today's IT Leaders

• Four Priorities of an IT Leader

• Rate Yourself as a Leader

• Egon Zehnder - 9 Core CIO Competencies

• 6 Hats of an IT Leader

• Impact of IT Leaders

Re-imagine the BUSINESS STRATEGY

• Declining Fortunes

• Former Industry Leaders

• Marketing Myopia

• Re-imagining the Business

• Vision Cone

• Examples of Strategic Vision

• Tesla - Vision to Strategy

• Strategy to Competitive Advantage

• PESTEL Analysis

• Re-inventing the New York Times

• BEST Analysis

• Best Analysis for ALDI, Hamleys and Disney

• Executable Strategy

• 1-Page Strategy - Business Model Canvas

Formulate the IT STRATEGY

• What is IT Strategy?

• Example - Changi Airport Terminal 4 (T4)

• Unlocking IT Value

• Strategic IT Grid

• Examples - Under Armour and Arcelor Mittal

• Impact of Poor vs. Good IT Strategy

• “Jump on the Bandwagon" Mentality

• Gartner Hype Cycle

• Does IT matter?

• 1-Page IT Strategy - the IT Pyramid

• Example - IT Pyramid for NTU

• Gartner's IT Strategy

• Example - BBC Technology Strategy and Roadmap

• Business-IT Alignment and IT-IT Alignment

• UK Government's Failed NHS Project

• IT Vision

• IT Roadmap and IT Portfolio

• Prioritising Project Investments

• Top Tips on Creating an IT Roadmap

• Pitfalls in IT Strategy

Architect AGILE IT PLATFORMS

• Importance of IT Architecture

• Good vs. Bad Architecture

• Architecture Complexities

• Spaghetti Architecture

• Needs of Retail Banking

• Business Agility is the New Mantra

• Qualities of an IT Architecture

• Multi-application Architectures

• KISS Principle

• Gartner's Core Architecture Principles (for digital business)

• Application Programme Interface (APIs)
  

Build BUSINESS RESILIENCE

• IT Outages at BA, Amazon, Delta and Microsoft

• Business Resilience

• Cost of IT Downtime

• Business Impact of IT Outage / Degradation

• MAS Guidelines on Business Continuity Management

• ISO 22301

• Key Metrics: MTD+RTO, ADL+RPO

• 5R Business Continuity Timeline

• Threats and Vulnerabilities

• A Risk-Based Approach

• Understanding Risk

• Risk Assessment Matrix

• Business Impact Analysis

• Distributed Operations

• Importance of Back-ups

• 3-2-1 Backup Strategy

• Data-Centre Tiers

• Data Centre Issues and Cause of BA Outage (2017)

• Disaster Recovery Site

• Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)

• Business Continuity Team

• Pitfalls in Business Continuity Planning

Deliver PROJECT SUCCESS

• IT Projects Come In Different Shapes and Sizes

• The Project Lifecycle

• Project Success and Trade-offs

• Four Layers of Impact

• Writing a Project Proposal

• 4 Dimensions of Project Feasibility

• Product vs. Project Scope

• Types of Project Risk

• Top 5 Causes of Project Failure

• Requirements as a Major Pain Point

• Prioritising with Moscow Analysis

• Project Stakeholders

• Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

• Using a WBS for Project Estimation

• Project Estimation Methods

• Shift from Traditional 'Waterfall' to Agile Project Lifecycle

• Traditional vs Agile Approach

  
  

Stay safe and CYBER SECURE

• Data Breaches at SingHealth, Equifax and Razer

• IBM's Cost of Data Breach Study (2019)

• Information Assurance

• Data Privacy

• General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

• EY Top 10 Cybersecurity Threats (2018-19)

• Cybersecurity Threat Landscape

• Malware

• Malware examples - WannaCry, GigaLocker and WhatsApp

• Keyloggers

• IOT Issues - HomeCams, Smart Devices and Car Hacking

• Zero-Day Attack

• DDOS Attacks

• Cybersecurity is a People Issue

• Password Management

• Biometrics

• 2-Factor Authentication (2FA)

• Netflix Phishing Scam (2017)

• Phishing and Spear Phishing

• Social Engineering

• Social Engineering Examples - Romance Scams, Call-Centre Scams and Impersonation

• Deepfake Videos

• Fake Website - Malindo Air

• Insider Threat

• NIST Framework for Cyber-Security

• Table-top Exercise