Information Technology Management for Strategic Business Leadership: A Programme for Future CIOs and CTOs

Information Technology (IT), today, is ubiquitous in all organization. Without IT, most of the businesses will come to standstill. Therefore, in current times, the role of IT managers is crucial and critical in successfully managing the organizations. However, even the senior IT managers do not get the stature and respect they deserve in organizations. One of the prime reasons for the same is that IT managers are unable to align themselves with strategy and other functional areas of business. It is perceived that IT managers are very much inward looking, focusing on technology rather than business. This perceived (and often real) gap arises because of lack of formal training in management, which restricts their ability to understand business functions and its integrated nature.

For example, as a part of procurement team they have to understand the entire procurement process, to evaluate benefits of technology investments they have to understand the concepts of time value of money, to ensure that the technology delivers value to the customer they have to understand marketing, to understand the way business is delivering value to the customers they have to understand strategy, and to ensure that the technology changes are accepted by the people they have to understand team-work, conflict resolution and change management. It is important that IT managers, especially those who come from engineering or computer science or other technical backgrounds understand the business and become integrated part of the scene. This programme has been designed keeping the same into consideration.

Programme Objectives

Programme Objectives The objective of the programme is to provide participants the knowledge about the principles of management and develop competencies to understand:

(i) The market and the customers

(ii) Financial and managerial aspects of IT projects and technology

(iii) Managing people and provide leadership

(iv) Managing technology enabled change

(v) Merging digital technologies and learning about their importance for marketing success

Overall, they should be able to participate in strategic discussions and decisions of the organization and actively contribute to the success of the same.

Pedagogy

The course will use case studies, lectures, published works of the faculty chair, and discussion exercises (hands-on, if required) to deliver the content.

Course Duration:

Spread over six months

Mode of Delivery:

The programme will be delivered on JITMRL platform through direct-to-desktop [D2D] held once a week and campus modules at IIM Ahmedabad.

Evaluation Methodology

IIM Ahmedabad shall carry out the examination and evaluation required for certification. Participants are evaluated based on examinations for all the courses. Participants will be given any one of the following grades: “Satisfactory Plus” (S+); “Satisfactory” (S); “Unsatisfactory” (U). A participant will be asked to leave the programme and the fees will then be forfeited in any of the following cases:

1. If a participant gets 2nd “U” for academic indiscipline wherein Academic Indiscipline includes cheating/copying/plagiarism in assignments and examinations and facilitating cheating in any way or is found having integrity issue during the programme.

2. If a participant gets 4th “U” for under-performance.

3. If a participant gets 1 U for academic indiscipline and 2 “U” s for underperformance.

4. The norms of the programme require a participant to have at least 80% of attendance to become eligible to receive the certificate, failing which a participant won't be awarded the certificate.

Certification

At the end of the Programme, eligible participants will receive a Certificate of Completion (CoC) of the Programme from IIM Ahmedabad subject to the assessment and fulfilment of attaining overall 80% attendance.

IIMA Alumni Status

Participants who are attending short-duration Executive Education Programmes for the first time, on or after April 1, 2012, will have to attend for a total of 21 days in one or more programmes in order to be eligible for alumni status and alumni identity card, both of which will be awarded on the payment of a one-time alumni fee of INR 10,000/- + GST.

Library Access

Restricted remote access to the library resources will be provided for the programme duration.

How to Apply

Interested candidates may apply using the application link: https://enrollment.jaroeducation.com/online/student_register or call on Mobile: : +91 75065 05142 for assistance or write to eep-blendedprograms@iima.ac.in

Service Provider:

Jaro Education