Business-Aligned IT Strategy
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Business-Aligned IT Strategy Course
Introduction:
In this engaging three-day workshop in Oxford, participants will delve into the critical aspects of aligning training and development with the overall business strategy. The primary focus will be on ensuring the organization's success through the harmonization of business objectives and training initiatives.
The workshop will explore the impact at both organizational and personal levels when creating effective development strategies, implementing lean processes, and managing Training Providers. Additionally, participants will learn how to construct a compelling case for training interventions and calculate the Return On Investment (ROI), thus ensuring Value For Money (VFM) is achieved.
This workshop is indispensable for individuals who bear the responsibility of ensuring the proper engagement and credibility of learning and development within their organizations. It also caters to those who are involved in the financial oversight of training interventions, including their creation, measurement, and management.
Course Objectives:
At the end of this workshop, you will learn to:
- Apply techniques to identifying business training needs aligned to organizational strategy
- Review and develop alternative cost-effective methods of development within the organization
- Review lean processes and models to achieve efficiency
- Deal with external learning service providers to ensure cost-effective development options
- Prepare and create evaluation methods to aid the management and measurement of investment (ROI) and ensure Value For Money (VFM)
- Develop and propose a business case for training to meet strategic business objectives
Who Should Attend?
This highly interactive workshop is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit those who:
- Have direct responsibility for the training budget within the organization and wish to gain greater effectiveness and efficiency in managing this
- Have a strategic overview of the business and who may also be responsible for initiating training program or authorizing expenditure for training and wish to gain a greater understanding of training budget formulation and ROI
- Are responsible for Human Resource / Organizational Development and the planning and delivery of training program at a strategic level
- Are responsible for the planning and implementation of training programs at an operational level
Course Outlines:
ALIGNING TRAINING TO BUSINESS STRATEGY
- Defining and Developing your Organizational Development Strategy
- Aligning Training and Development to Meet Business Objectives
- Sustainability of Development: Need for Long-term Planning for Future Skills and Competences
- Competency Strategy and Development
- Overview of Talent and Succession Planning
- Key Evaluation Models and their Importance in Business Alignment
DEMONSTRATING EFFICIENT ROI AND VFM
- LEAN Organization and Processes
- Efficient Budget Planning, and Forecasting Strategies
- Understanding Cost / Benefit Analysis Impact
- Validating the ROI: Process and Methods
- Optimize Cost-effective Development Strategies
- Preparing a Business Case for ROI and VFM
OPTIMISING EFFECTIVE DEVELOPMENT AND VFM
- Alternative Cost-effective Training and Development Interventions
- Maximizing Internal Development Provision
- Managing the External Learning Service Provider
- Ensure Maximum VFM (Value For Money) through Powerful Negotiation
- Contractual Considerations when using External Provision
- Preparing your Business Case for Development Planning
- Summary and Next Steps