Who should come:

CIOs, IT Directors and Project Managers

Purpose

This workshop is designed to equip senior IT managers with the skills to develop and effectively communicate credible business cases associated with large IT investments. This skill set will:

• Increase your credibility as business-relevant manager in the eyes of your CFO and CEO
• Increase the likelihood of getting your large IT projects funded
• Increase funding stabilization for large IT investments over their entire life-cycle
• Improve your ability to add value to the bottom line of the company using IT resources
• Increase your ability to identify the current state, likely future, and probable risk of new and emerging technologies
• Increase your ability to assess the applicability of new technology to your company's needs and your users' expectations

Presented By:

This workshop will be offered by the Institute for CIO Excellence at the George Dean Johnson, Jr. College of Business and Economics at USC Upstate on our Spartanburg, SC campus.

Topics Covered

• How to calculate the ROI and Internal Rate of Return (I.R.R.) for IT Projects
• Assessing the business risk and opportunities for large IT investments
• Effectively communicating IT investment opportunities to your CFO and CEO
• A strategy for converting your IT department from a cost center to a profit center
• The importance and how-to's for getting a credible dollar valuation for the intangible benefits for large IT projects
• Using the Web as a research resource for bolstering your business case with other case studies
• Using the Gartner Hype Cycle to determine timing for new technology adoption

Format

This 1½ day workshop will be part lecture, part class discussion and part small group exercises designed to give you practice in applying the new skill sets you will acquire in this workshop.

Agenda

Thursday (March 25): 1:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Friday (March 26): 9:00 a.m. – noon and 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Fee: $1,495
Dates: March 25-26, 2010
Location: Room Media 319 of the Business College on the Spartanburg, SC campus of USC Upstate

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