GIIM Programs Focus On What Digital Leaders and Managers Must Know to Perform Effectively

GIIM collaborates with its affiliates around the globe in delivering full degrees, certificates/certifications, postgraduate diplomas, and customized just-in-time executive workshops & seminars, via its comprehensive 35 digiTal management programs (over 150 40-hour courses).

Managers / Leaders Must Be Able To

Leverage IT for demonstrable business value
Understand/define the roles and responsibilities of key IT and non-IT stakeholders in deploying digital initiatives
Prepare for the evolving/dynamic technical, business/industry, & social landscape/ecosystem
Establish effective strategic, tactical and operational IT/digital governance processes
Manage emerging technologies; what are they and how can they be leveraged for competitive advantage
Ensure effective communications within and across the organization
Develop a business-IT investment plan, with options; reconcile how these alternatives are assessed and allocated resources
Leverage current and emerging digital trends for industry optimization (e.g., financial services, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, government, manufacturing, transportation)
Effectively and efficiently integrate technologies within IT and across the enterprise
Drive innovation and entrepreneurship; apply frameworks of best practices that derive competitive advantage
Effectively manage change and its associated risks (within the business, IT, & external partners)
Prepare a scalable strategy and associated plans to meet capacity & business/industry/environmental demands

Anticipate sourcing strategies; considerations for insourcing (hiring, training, motivating) or outsourcing (e.g., Capex vs Opex, build a facility, risk evaluation, onshore/near shore/far shore, vendor selection)
Implement effective Human Resource initiatives
Formulate the right team and organizational/reporting structure
Build optimal operational and technical plans in harmony with the strategic business plans and growth initiatives
Develop and groom IT staff to take on more managerial responsibilities
Lead & manage initiatives to ensure that all commitments are attained
Enhance client & vendor/service provider alignment; strategic, tactical and operational governance, and contract negotiations
Establish a partnership with the business and strategic external partners
Measure and assess ITs contribution to the business (e.g., ROI, TCO, TVO, Balanced Scorecard); IT financial management
Improve key digital management processes (e.g., analytics & reporting, security, continuity, capacity planning & availability, service levels, project management, problem management, procurement, information assurance, budgets, people management)