| | |  European CIO Pocket MBA
Ask your typical business executive what's wrong with corporate IT and you are most likely to hear how IT colleagues don’t speak the language and don't face up to the real issues the business is facing. True or not these enduring perceptions are very damaging to relationships and performance. These same problems show up in surveys, in research and in 360º feedback. They rob IT executives of business influence and credibility and get in the way of the valuable executive career they should have had.
In contrast, what happens when a confident IT executive combines a sound technology perspective with a genuine understanding of its impact on the business? Then the focus is totally on business issues: strategy, competition, CSFs, delivery, risk management and the rest. This IT executive is a central and valued member of the business strategic discussion: while others on the team can “blue-sky”, the IT executive is better placed to understand what IT is doing to the world, and explain how to thrive with the inevitable. This executive will become a critical member of the CEO's strategy and delivery teams.
So how is it that most IT executives have had to settle for being a business outcast when their future would be so much more assured when they operate from inside the business fortress? It's simple: over the last 35 years, IT has evolved so quickly that it has created relentless waves of new technical skills and shortages that generations of IT professionals have had to address just to keep up. This has left little development time and budget for business education and IT executives have paid a heavy price for it. Today’s IT leaders have no option but to address this problem before it blights their executive potential.
By the time an IT executive realises that his or her business contribution is lacking, it is often too late. Busy IT executives are unlikely to take a year out to do an MBA, but they can take a world-class, focused “pocket programme” designed to address the specifics of business insight and orientation that will give them a voice. We have brought the Boston University CIO Pocket MBA to London so you don't have to travel to the USA to take advantage of this world-class, focused, business education for ambitious IT executives.
Boston University is a global centre of excellence for strategic thinking and business development. The BU European CIO Pocket MBA will provide you with a business education and qualification designed to impact your performance in key areas such as: leading transformation, building a strategy for getting things done, creating new organisational models, and strategic alignment in the 21st century.
The faculty is world-class. Prof John Henderson is an important authority on the development of strategic IT partnership for competitive advantage and is retained by the boards of leading Fortune 500 companies. Prof N. Venkatraman is the world's thought leader on disruptive technology and its effects on sectors and markets, and advises global research firms. Prof Mike Lawson, senior associate dean of Boston University is a leading expert on the role of IT in the development of new value platforms, economic globalisation and business transformation.
We at CIODEVELOPMENT.COM are proud and thrilled to be making this world-class programme available to European IT executives. Contact our courses director, Rachel Onder to reserve a place or to request more information. Please act today; space is limited on this unique Pocket MBA programme for IT executives. DOWNLOADABLE FACTSHEET:2009 CIO Pocket MBA Prospectus |
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