APSG® provides a fast-paced course that is packed with techniques that will forever change the way you manage your information technology (IT) organization. This high-powered, energizing course will provide the key secrets that are necessary to increase the value of IT to the business. You will be exposed to the tools, techniques and systems used by successful IT senior managers. The IT executives that teach this course have about a century of knowledge and experience in information technology leadership.

What You Will Learn

• Leadership skills necessary to become a superior CIO
• How to increase the value of IT to the business through strategic alignment
• How to manage a geographically dispersed IT organization
• The key elements to consider when deciding whether or not to outsource
• Which IT measurements are truly important to the business
• How to create a dynamic, innovative-driven IT organization
• The success techniques for managing IT finances
• The components of the chief information officer position that are least understood

This Course is Perfect If You Are:

• A CEO who is depending more and more on information technology for the success of your business and need to have a CIO that understands the technology as well as possess the leadership skills to work well at the senior management level. If you need to understand the key components of the CIO function–or just need to understand the position better to select the right CIO for the job.

• An Experienced CIO who needs a way to communicate the significant aspects of your job to those who don’t quite understand your multitude of challenges. You are a CIO who has a need to understand when to be a technologist and when to be a business person.

• A New CIO who needs to better understand the job that you have just taking on–or need to understand the skills that are required to be both effective and successful at your new job.

• A CFO who needs a detailed understanding of the areas of IT that affects the finances of the company–or if you need to understand the key operational components of the IT function.

• A Business Unit Manager who must interact with the CIO on a daily basis and have a need to better understand the CIO position. Or, if you need to understand the key components of the CIO function to work more effectively with the CIO.

• An IT Professional whose career path includes becoming a CIO. You don’t quite understand the decisions that the CIO makes and you have a need to better understand the reasons behind those decisions. Or, if you simply have a need to enhance your working relationship with the CIO of your company.

• An Executive Recruiter who must understand the array of skills that is needed for you to effectively place a chief information officer in a senior level position. This course will help you to understand the unique talents necessary to select the right person for the CIO job.

Course Bonus!

In addition to the course material, each attendee will receive a personalized, autographed copy of the book, “Unwrapping the CIO: Demystifying the Chief Information Officer Position”.

Please contact us at info@apsg-ltd.com if you would like any course to be conducted on-site.