The 4 course CIO Certification is designed for the IT professional with 10+ years’ of experience who is moving up in their career. It is also an effective program for more senior level IT professionals that require important management and leadership skills, as well as the business (non-IT) professional looking to understand how to leverage their IT investment.

The role, use, provisioning, and expectations for IT are going through profound changes across the globe. The enterprise is demanding higher velocity and more agile access to IT capabilities. Many business executives are dismayed that they have better technology at home than they get in their company. IT is increasingly providing direct support to the enterprise’s products and services. Stakeholders expect immediate seamless access to information and analytics in their increasingly mobile work environments. IT leadership requires a refresh of approaches, thinking and management practices to meet these new challenges. IT and business must co-adapt together. IT must understand the business, and the business must understand IT.

The CIO Certification serves as a mini-MBA program that provides participants with the underlying competencies necessary to succeed in today’s dynamic business and technical environments, as IT becomes the business. The certificate also prepares candidates for being Certified from ICCP and in the Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT® ).  The focus is on enhancing and leveraging the harmony across business and IT organizations. To evolve beyond a cost center, IT has to move beyond just supporting the infrastructure and back office business processes; IT must contribute to business innovation and growth. IT must also adjust to an environment in which stakeholders have greatly enhanced expectations due to the widespread consumerization of technical capabilities. In essence this certificate puts attendees in the role of a CIO from strategic, tactical, and operational perspectives, as they work with stakeholders from the business areas, vendors/service providers, and paying customers/clients to provide demonstrable value.

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