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Helping Today’s Technologists Become Tomorrow’s Leaders
As a Project Manager, your reputation, persona and internal company network can make or
break your project and/or your career. That said, building your professional brand is of great
value to both your company and you personally.
This class begins by assessing your professional reputation based on ten key factors and
discussing professional branding from a personal marketing perspective. It then continues by
outlining a multi-step personal development plan on how to build your skills and credentials.
It then ends, by describing various ways to expand your reputation, persona and professional
network based on these newly enhanced skills and credentials.
Class Topics include:
Personal assessment
Learn about branding o Your brand is o Your brand is NOT
Formulate your strategy o Define your career direction o Define needed credentials o Define your soft skills training needs o Define your hard skill training needs o Define your future marketability o Analyze your next promotion o Formulate your plan
Build your brand o Building your skills o Building your credentials o Building your knowledge
Market yourself
Key Take-A-Ways:
Understanding of professional branding and how you can use it to your advantage
A five step process you can use enhance your professional brand
Ways to increase your professional marketability and advance your career more quickly
Helping Today’s Technologists Become Tomorrow’s Leaders
Major long term megatrends are taking the IT industry by storm. Each of these megatrends has its own idiosyncrasies, but together they are driving the future of business computing, the type of service IT can provide to its constituency, and how IT itself is structured and managed. An understanding of what these trends are and how to use them to your advantage in the workplace is essential to maximize the value of IT to your organization. Class Topics include:
Mobile Devices, Consumerization of IT, and BYOD o Definitions, drivers, risks and procedures o Policies, and more
Cloud Computing o Advantages and Disadvantages o Security, Operational and Data Management Considerations
Social Media Marketing and Listening o Content-Marketing and Social Media Monitoring o Community Creation and Data Collection
Data Analytics and Visualization o Data types and data analysis methods o Data visualization concepts, and more
Internet of Things o Definitions, concepts and usage o Examples and Innovations
Big Data o Definitions, size, types, processes, and more
Digital Transformation o Definitions, Effect on IT and the organization o Management Consideration, and key thought leaders
Other Megatrends o Machine learning, 3D printing, phygical, robotics, etc.
Key Take-A-Ways:
Insights into short and long term effects these IT megatrends have on the IT
Employing megatrends to the advantage of the company, IT, staff, and yourself
Understanding of what IT skills are needed to implement these new technologies
Insights into the ramifications of these technologies on current and future IT organizations
Helping Today’s Technologists Become Tomorrow’s Leaders
Cloud computing has been a huge topic within the Information Technology (IT) community. This class discusses what cloud computing is, how it affects IT organizations and how it can be employed to maximize user satisfaction and IT effectiveness & minimize expenses. It goes on to discuss cloud computing pros and cons from an IT perspective, implications for IT management, the potential to magnify IT resources, possible morale issues, and dealing with high user expectations, capital expenditures, data security and other important issues. Lastly, in additional to highlighting data security concerns, it also discusses various IT issues that are often overlooked making the decision to move toward a cloud computing strategy. These issues include production/operation issues, potential fracturing of the corporate data models, vendor selection and ongoing vendor oversight. Class Topics include:
Description of Cloud Computing
Major Vendors and Players
Cloud Computing and Disadvantages
Financial Considerations and Usage
Security considerations
Operational Considerations
Data Management Considerations
Vendor Considerations
Vendor Oversight
Key Take-A-Ways:
Knowledge of key cloud computing terms and vendors
Implications of cloud computing from an IT management perspective
Financial and cost center ramifications of cloud computing
Enhanced IT leadership perspectives of cloud advantages and disadvantages
The effect that a cloud computing strategy has on your existing IT corporate data model
Insights into various operational, security, and vendor issues related to moving toward a cloud computing strategy
Helping Today’s Technologists Become Tomorrow’s Leaders
Data is the life blood of all organizations. Information Technology (IT) managers and individual contributors are the guardians of this data. As a result, IT must understand how data is collected, stored, distributed, used, and in regard to this class, managed. To that end, we will discuss the data quality requirements for different data types, the business, IT and vendor practices that help create bad data, processes to help identify bad data, and the management practices and data governance needed to help facilitate the distribution of quality information. Class Topics include:
Data Quality Requirements o How different types of data require different levels of quality
Causes of Bad Data o Data problems caused by vendors o Data problems caused by IT architectures
Identifying Bad Data o Ways to monitor and identify bad data o Data health check philosophy and practices
Data Friendly Topologies o Internal and external data-friendly topologies o Modifying existing data flows and topologies
Data Governance and Management o Data governance and Data Governance Group (DGG) definitions o Responsibilities, location, level, and structure o Challenges of justifying a DGG
Effect of Cloud Computing on Data Management o Data Definition and Data Movement Issues o Inter-Cloud Transactions Issues o Data Warehousing and Analytics Issues
Effect of Big Data on Data Management o Information Governance o Operational, Administrative and Business Metadata
Key Take-A-Ways:
Definitions of key quality data types and considerations
Understanding of data governance political and financial dynamics
Data Governance Group vision, mission, and organizational structure
Helping Today’s Technologists Become Tomorrow’s Leaders
Best practices in vendor management have always been important to IT leaders and will only be more so should outsourcing continue to increase.
This class covers key elements of excellence in vendor management including sourcing, using vendors to build a business case, communicating priorities, the competitive vendor landscape, contracts and negotiating, collaboration and partnership with key vendors, vendor risk assessment, vendor performance issues, transparency and other best practices. Class Topics include:
Providers and strategic partners o Vendor types o Approved vendor lists o Approved product lists
Key vendor considerations o Technical o Operational o Financial
Vendor management life cycle o Business case definition o Business requirements definition o Service Level Agreement (SLA) definition
DANCE Vendor Management Expectation Framework o “D”—Define the issue o “A”—Agree on what needs to be done o “N”—Negotiate the final outcome o “C”—Complete the task o “E”—Ensure the vendor performed satisfactorily
Vendor oversight o Vendor audits o Risk assessment and mitigation o Industry specific compliance considerations
Outsourcing and cloud considerations o Data movement and governance o Change control processes o Definition and communication of priorities
Key Take-A-Ways:
Key elements of vendor management best practices
Understanding of the vendor selection and management life cycle
Insights into vendor audits, oversight, and exit strategy
Helping Today’s Technologists Become Tomorrow’s Leaders
Based on the book "Productivity Driven Success", productivity improvement should never be your final goal. It should simply be a conduit to free up the time, money and resources needed to drive organizational success. This workshop widens your perspective on productivity enhancement and outlines a strategy to assure your efforts are aligned with corporate goals, holistic in nature, systematic in implementation, and measurable. It goes on to describe the six "Productivity Enables" that make improvement possible, "Productivity Amplifiers" designed to maximize organizational efficiency, and the process that makes it happen. Class Topics include:
Key Concepts o The Productivity Measurement Fallacy o Opportunity Cost o Productivity Driven Reinvestment o Productivity Linking and Mapping o Cultural Productivity Enablers o Getting your Productivity Projects Funded
Unleashing your Productivity Amplifiers o Constructive delegation o Ongoing process improvement o Communication efficiency o Knowledge storage and transfer o Time management o Asset reuse o Intelligent meeting management o Leveraging the zone
Seven Step Productivity Pyramid System
Key Take-A-Ways: How do build a culture that facilitates productivity enhancement
How to align and measure productivity projects based on company goals
Seven key areas of potential productivity enhancement
A seven step process to manage your productivity initiatives
Helping Today’s Technologists Become Tomorrow’s Leaders
Strategic thinking is the mental process, applied by an individual or by the organization as a whole, that considers and organization’s future direction, new products and services, new markets, new internal processes or other similar objectives. Strategic planning is the systematic process used to defining the steps, deliverables and milestones needed to meet this future vision. This class discusses these two interrelated topics from a conceptual, step-by-step and how-to
perspective.
Class Topics include:
Organizational Thinking
o Planning and Positioning
o Organizational Learning
o Constructive Transformation
Vision, Objectives and Values
o Vision Statement
o Objectives Definition
o Values Statement
Thoughts on Strategic Thinking
o Vision Effectiveness
o Making Time to Think a Priority
o Move Out of Your Comfort Zone
o Focusing on Results vs. Methods and Means
o Using Forward Thinking
6 Step Strategic Thinking Process
Thoughts on Strategic Planning
o Definition of Strategic Planning
o Strategic Thinking vs. Strategic Planning
9 Step Strategic Planning Process
Key Take-A-Ways:
Conceptual understanding of the strategic thinking process
Critical Success factors of the strategic thinking process
Insights in various formal strategic thinking methodologies
How to structure for vision, mission, and value statement
Insights into common IT strategic planning issues Nine step strategic planning process
Helping Today’s Technologists Become Tomorrow’s Leaders
The Steve Jobs Way: A Case Study on Innovation & Leadership Where Innovation and Leadership converge
Love him or hate him, you must admit that Steve Jobs was a challenging and brilliant leader and an innovative genius. So what can you learn from the strengths and weaknesses of a computer industry trailblazer? The answer is an enormous amount! This class, developed hand-in-hand with former Apple SVP and Jobs’ advisor Jay Elliot, highlights and describes Steve Jobs’ business principles, philosophies, and techniques in ways that you can adapt and apply them to your workplace in order to grow professionally and, in the words of Steve Jobs, “put a ding in the universe”, your ding in the universe! The topics discussed in this class are valuable to people of all professions and organizational levels. Some of Jobs’ techniques were used to create this class, so we can demonstrate to you how to actually use these principles to your advantage in any business endeavor.
Class Topics include:
The Myth and the Man
General Thoughts on Leadership
Jobs' Leadership Style
Jobs' Organization and Team Building Style
Intensity and Focus
General Innovation Terminology and Concepts
Jobs' Thoughts on Innovation
Examples of Innovation
General Thoughts on Product Design
Jobs' Product Passion and Design Key Take-A-Ways:
Knowledge of various innovative and effective leadership concepts
Innovation techniques usable in almost any professional endeavor
Ways to create an culture of innovation
Value of professional intensity and focus
An understanding that sometimes more is less and less is more
Concepts of product design usable in the creation of almost product or service
Team building techniques that enhance quality, productivity, and effectiveness
Helping Today’s Technologists Become Tomorrow’s Leaders